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AM

9:08am JST Sunday 25 January 2004

Today will be my last day of work until janette leaves.

This morning janette fixed me breakfast of diced potatoes (and onions?), a fried egg, chopped cucumber, toast and jelly.

Sarah from ultimate sent me pics from her wedding. In one she's wearing her gown and holding a disc. Quite surreal to see two worlds together like that.

I got a note from Jeff Harrow that I'll be cited as a contributor for an upcoming issue! This is cool because I've sent him a lot of links to a lot of stuff. This is the first time I'll be credited in his technology newsletter.

Work

11:55am JST Monday 26 January 2004

Yesterday I worked at KQ with Guy and Brett. Cory didn't come over to say bye (that I noticed) like I thought he would.

My Aries bud Takako was in my second to last class; she's in 7A now; yay! I didn't level her up; I thought she was too slow and hesitant to speak. I taught her first 7A class (and didn't open the book) on simple past conjugation. We told a story about Nova usagi and what he did. Then I had them ask each other questions about what he did, so they used past tense and question form past tense. Good stuff.

During my last class I taught past perfect. I think I did a good job at that. Ironically, the student who requested past perfect was in my last class of last year, and it was the same lesson that we covered (about the ghost in the mansion) then. That was the lesson where I was all, "look; this is really really important" cause some of the students were flirting and fucking around and couldn't tell the difference between "how long has he been coming here?" and "how long has he been here?"

Anyway, this lesson was quite different, and I drew a graph to explain past perfect. I think they got it.

One lesson I taught the usage of "in" "on" and "at" in terms of location (not time), at the student's request. I love it when the students tell me what they want to study (and the answer isn't "English conversation").