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Class

11:52am JST Friday 30 April 2004

Class was pretty good today. Most of it was spent making corrections to my diary. To make it more effective, I've got to recite / rewrite the entries. I'm not 100% keen to do that now, but I'll do a couple.

２００４年０４月２６日１０時頃
今日見たゆめはながくてふくざつだった。
地下（ちか）の小川のトンネルでわるい人から逃げた（にげた）。
逃げる前、私と友だちは大きくてこんでいるモールで散歩（さんぽ）した。
それから友だちの友だちは不注意にかばんを振ったからちかくにいた子どもに。

new vocab:

不注意 = ふちゅうい = carelessly
振った = ふった = swang
ちかく = nearby
あたる = hit
あたった = hit (past tense)

Dan

11:54am JST Friday 30 April 2004

Dan texted me just as my Japanese lesson was finishing; we're going to hang out in 自由ヶ丘 soon.

Experts on UFOs

10:01am JST Friday 30 April 2004

	According to Reuters, state-run television today broadcast a
	sparkling white disc flying over the capital of Tehran, saying
	it was filmed last night.

	People were reported rushing out into the streets in eight
	towns last night to watch a bright "extraterrestrial light
	dipping in and out of the clouds."

	The Islamic Republic News Agency also reports colorful objects
	seen beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the
	northern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea
	province of Golestan.

Wow! UFOs, right???

Nope.

	Sa'dollah Nasiri-Qeydari, head of the Astronomical Society of
	Iran, told the wire service the stories were unfounded.

	"In my opinion, flying saucers do not exist," he said,
	insisting his telescopes would have spotted any potential
	invaders from space.

	"The people who have seen these things are not experts:
	farmers, villagers and pilots," he added.

	Nasiri-Qeydari suggests people could actually be viewing the
	planet Venus, whose light could be given different colors when
	filtered through the atmosphere.

Wow. It turns out I was completely wrong about Venus. This expert standing out in his field, says that Venus doesn't shine serenely at the horizon, as I thought, given that Venus is closer to the sun than us. Instead, in his *opinion*, flying saucers don't even *exist*, *PLUS* his infallible telescopes would have easily spotted any craft coming our way.

Of course, it was just a bunch of villagers and pilots who saw the lights. No experts.

daniel

1:24pm Friday 30 April 2004

What a great day.

Specifically, what a great day to hang out with my friend Daniel in Jiyugaoka. The weather is money and the women are beautiful (if they're not smoking). The technologically cool thing about this cool day is: we're sittin' on a bench (which has been so recently painted as to look like fresh wet sticky cloth-antagonistic paint) outside, listening to BBC.CO.UK/radio4 while typing a journal entry using a pirated internet signal.

Daniel = fun.