Entries this day: Work andrew andrew boojum.com saori yuuko

Work

12:56pm JST Saturday 27 March 2004

So far work has been a good variety of class and no class with plenty of studying in the non-lessons. I can now write 写真。 Yay.

Classes were a good variety of high and low students.

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I've had four more students today with 2 more (?) to go. All new students so far today, including a woman who works for a toy company that imports globes made in Mexico because (although the shipping is three times as expensive) the Chinese government won't let them print "Peking" for the capital (China wants "Beijing") on globes made in China. (make sense?)

I don't know enough about the history of China to know why who wants what name for the capital city.

andrew

12:37am JST Sunday 28 March 2004

Wow. Huge blessings to Andrew for hooking himself up with nearly a million yen. That's money. And I don't just mean that literally.

andrew

Hey yall, its andrew, happy 1 year anniversary, although i wouldnt
really call it anything near happy.So m stuck here it seems 4 another
few mnts, gotta sav up 1mil yen, m almost there, then m off on a 1
year or more rnd the world trip, trying my luck as a photographer and
travel writer, whats up w u?

boojum.com

4:01pm JST Saturday 27 March 2004

After the great capital of China debate, I surfed around to see what name different sources said. I found two before I got distracted; they both said Beijing.

I got distracted with names of cities in Mongolia. Things like Ulaan Baatur and cool stuff like that. I'm like, "I should go there just so I can say I've been to a city with a crazy name."

A little research produced a website for a horseback tour agency called boojum (taken from Lewis Carroll because of the wanderistic nature of the company) that gives horseback tours around Mongolia! Wow. I might do it for my 12500th day present.

Jesse says: "Yeah right; good luck. Watch out for the mosquitoes."

saori

12:12am JST Sunday 28 March 2004

Saori is really cute. Reminds me of Abi from KTRU. She seems really friendly, too.

yuuko

12:38am JST Sunday 28 March 2004

After work, I was feeling a bit unsettledly anxious for an attention fix, even though Jesse and I had been hanging out throughout the day each time we had a break or some such. I called Miki (H Miki, not KG Miki) and asked if she wanted to hang out sometime, now that I live closer to her. Actually I wanted to know if she wanted to hang out tonight, even though when I played through the scenario, I could see I would soon be bored/frustrated with trying to bridge the language gap, and there must be some something that is inside me trying to come up or get out or otherwisely be noticed. She couldn't hang out, but said she would called Mamiko to see if we could all hook up for a night of karaoke, etc and all that. Cool. I was nearly kinda relieved that she wasn't available tonight; it was just too much for me to generate the genkiness required to go hang out with someone I don't know *all* that welll.

Just after that, however, Yuuko texted me. I was far more willing to spend the time with her; though the language gap can be frustrating, we are past any uncomfortable silence concerns in our relationship. She wanted to show me some nice sakura (cherry blossoms) around the area.

The blossoms were neat. Right now I'm too tired to post the pics, but we got some. The sky was all dark, so they're a bit strangely lit due to the flash, but definitely gives an idea of what it's like.

Wandered around the neighborhood with Yuuko a bit and then she drove us to Dan's where I found my flash cards and got my umbrella back and all that. Good stuff. Reallllly tired. Saw Dan on the way home. And then saw Steve at the corner in Tsunashima.