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Care of Self

8:31am JST Saturday 8 May 2004

While I cooked eggs for myself this morning, Shoko came down to make coffee. She had boyfriend problems last night, and asked me to tell her what her bf meant when he said he couldn't take care of her.

I think one reason I'm in Japan is to learn how to take care of myself.

Work

8:51pm JST Saturday 8 May 2004

Work was pretty good. 10 lessons, though none of my very favorite students. Still some nice ones though. No difficult students.

During lunch, Jesse was like, "let's go," and I came, thinking that we'd be hooking up a game of Hackey Sack J, but upon arrival outside, we met his girl instead of play. Woah. I wasn't prepared to pay in money, so I directed us toward a pastry cafe, where I got a single pastry thing for 120 yen. Actually Jesse paid for it and I reimbursed him.

During the meal, I kept agreeing with Takako on different things like if she said "the" in a sentence, and something else that was more against Jesse like why would he 'yell' at her about that, but then I toned it down cause I realized they've got their own pattern down for the past couple of years; I don't need to disrupt it until I know a bit more about it.

kg Miki

10:53pm JST Saturday 8 May 2004

Called KG Miki after work today on the assumption that she would be in Motosumiyoshi. She was, so we hung out at a pastry/coffee shop for a bit to chat. I offered to exchange computer lessons for Japanese lessons from her. She'll let me know if it's cool with her parents to have me come over to her house. [[ Japanese "children" in Japan (Tokyo) often live with their parentals until they get married, because it's so expensive to move out. ]] This idea is a bit weird for me still, having to ask parents, but hey.

I told her, more than anything, I wanted for her to feel self-empowered. Miki claims that she can't speak English, read a map, nor use a computer. I'm not desperately tied to the results, but I'd like to help if possible.

star wars episode ii

1:48am JST Sunday 9 May 2004

I had to drag myself away from the TV tonight; Episode II of Star Wars came on at 1am as I was just about to go to bed. I had considered turning off the TV as soon as everyone else went to bed, but I chose not to get up from where I was working on adding a new query to my student rememberer. Changing Lanes had just gone off and then bang Star Wars and I was like if Queen Amidala is on, I'm watching, but it was only Senator Amidala, so she didn't have that lip thing going on, so I was more easily able to break away.