Entries this day: Dream Japanese_class day

Dream

7:40am JST Friday 30 January 2004

Dreamt that I was at KTRU with Katy and Meg Robinson.

Japanese class

11:16am JST Friday 30 January 2004

Today before my lesson with Ayana, I saw a busload of little school girls, none in school uniforms. There was a western looking woman with them, sitting kinda in the aisle with all these yapping happy girls scattered throughout the bus, talking in all directions. Like a busload of puppies.

I marveled at the... horror.. no, the energy of the busload, and happened to make eye contact with the woman who was well aware of her charge, yet also aware of the surrounding area, including me. I waved at her and made this smiling face like, "holy shit that's quite a litter you've got there," and she agreed.

That was on the way to the bank near Shibuya. I now know where a branch of my bank is around that station. I didn't before. Got 20,000 yen out, 12,000 of which went to Ayana today. She wouldn't take money for the first lesson with janette. I was like, "but it wasn't like you gained a student." She said, "it was my pleasure." Fair enough.

- - - -

My lesson went back over the て form of conjugations and then the short form and the whatever form and something else. She says basically my conjugation is fine; it's just my vocab that's slacking.

- - - -

Oh, more importantly, she asked me why I broke up with janette, and I explained that I was keeping myself from learning Japanese; I was calling janette each night instead of learning Japanese, and I needed to break that requirement. Ayana suggested I get a Japanese girlfriend. I go, "だれ？" and she's like, "I don't know."

"Yeah; me too."

day

12:52am JST Saturday 31 January 2004

Work was 1/2 full of students. Had Kaori in my second to last class. She was kinda quiet, but she says she's always like that.

Miki called me after work and I thought it was KG Miki at first, but it was Haneda Miki and I didn't realize it until Kaori got on the phone. Oh yeah.

They met me and Morag and Kathy at Starbucks for Japanese study time. Fun stuff. Kathy helped me and Kaori with Mandarin as well.

- - - -

Yuuko texted me; we will meet after work tomorrow.