Entries this day: Crying Work after_work

Crying

10:06am JST Sunday 4 April 2004

I feel so sad. My life is so different than it was 13 months ago.

without the express written permission of the national football
league.

And so so so so different than it was whenever that was a long time ago when I (we) lived on West Bell.

Thank you so much for the plenty of planning time invitation.  
I choose not to go; I can't face your family.

Work

1:14am JST Monday 5 April 2004

I was pleased with how I handled a lesson at work. The student was using a business book, and was far in over his head on vocabulary. He was not able to fill in vocabulary words in a speech given by some business guy in some business situation. Words like "propose" "looking" "success" "working" etc.

I figured I could just say, "good work" and move on to the next lesson, which he would likely understand just as little, or we could work more on this lesson. So I had him write all the vocab words, then I wrote sentences with blanks and had him fill in the missing words. Then I wrote more sentences with blanks and had him fill in variants of the missing words. "success" -> "successful" or "working" -> "worked". Then I had go over the original speech again, and I think he did it a bit faster this time.

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That lesson was at the same time Rene was teaching Mariko. Eeee.

after work

1:20am JST Monday 5 April 2004

Party after work to say bye to Hikari and Yuko. I sat across from Shoko and practiced a lot of Japanese. It was pretty cool and I would have a stronger crush on her if she didn't *smoke* argh why do cute girls smoke? I asked her and she was like, "I can't quit" and I asked her why she started and she said it seemed interesting. Ugh. What a nightmare. She seems cool in most other respects. Similar age/taste in movies/etc.

We may see Kill Bill Vol 1 on DVD together, and then go see Kill Bill Vol 2 when it comes out. Maybe.