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Dream Idea

4:49am JST Friday 31 October 2003

"My name is Takako."

:: "Hi Takako." ::

"I feel _______" (happy, sad, angry, afraid)

:: "You feel ______. Thank you." ::

"My _____ is (most) important to me."

:: "Your ______ is important to you. Thank you." ::

"I love my _____ (because ....)"

:: "You love your _____. Thank you." ::

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I have heard that it's easier for Japanese to express their emotions in English than in Japanese. The above thoughts woke me up with their significance.

At the meeting there would be Japanese written rules, and before the meeting would be spoken instructions, Whatever is spoken in this room, stays in this room and you do not have to speak, but you are welcome to. The same sort of shit that is spoken before 12 step meetings.

There would be 'definitions' of the basic emotions:

Happy:   :-)

Sad:     :-(

Afraid:  :-O

Angry:  >:-<

and possibly Japanese sentences that describe the emotions (if that can be done).

Today I'm going to have my students discuss what is most important to them and why.

Japanese class

11:19am JST Friday 31 October 2003

Ayana is quite a patient teacher. I'm pretty much going to quit going to my Tuesday class because I get frustrated in there by the native Chinese speakers who know kanji and zoom past me, plus the teacher panders to them more than to me, because I'm totally sucking ass in that class compared to them. Blah; whatever.

Oh, plus that teacher (Hoso) knows limited English and doesn't seem to understand when I need more time to answer, and doesn't hear me when I answer correctly; she talks all over me and gives the answers; fuck, it's just really frustrating, and distracts me from studying just for one Japanese class.

Basically the internet distracts the hell out of me, and keeps me from studying much at all, and when I'm trying (word-fuck word) to study for two classes, it messes me up even more.

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Today Ayana let me review some adjectives and their conjugations for present, present-negative, past, and past-negative tenses. She said they are tricky for everyone.