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Dan

1:45pm JST Thursday 5 August 2004

Need to add this to yesterday's entry.

Dan shaved my head with the clippers, or was in the process of shaving it and some was long and some was short and it looked like a nightmare. Then he cracked out his razor and was like, "would you like me to raze it?" and I was like "sure!"

He started shaving a few streaks of flat baldness and then I was like,

"wait, you're not shaving it, are you?"

HAhahahahhahahaahahah!

Dan said, for a moment, he was petrified. Bang.

Rikitake

10:22am JST Thursday 5 August 2004

"We're going to Yokohama, right?"

"Yeah."

"You want to go this way, then?"

Oops. Without thinking I had headed up the steps toward the tracks for Shibuya, not Yokohama.

12:58pm

Beautiful.

Riki rocked in there and got them registered for the new data stream programs and now they're evaluating the different programs available to snag the data. Ian has gone to lunch with Wendy and Paul is helping Riki (Paul who knows the current system, and Riki who knows Japanese) and I am on the train to meet my 3 year old student Sanami at 2pm.

Everything is cool.

The coolest thing is that I didn't know how long it would take at Ian's. I considered calling and canceling or adjusting the time for the lesson with Sanami, but never actually did it, and everything worked out with awesome timing.

Oh, and I'll work there on weekends in September. And maybe during the week in August.

Sanami

2:40pm JST Thursday 5 August 2004

Pooh. Arrived at Sanami's at pingpong two o'clock, but she was not there. Seems her mom had forgotten about the lesson or something. A man (dad?) was there who apologized, but didn't really give any details in English.

"Please next week."

Work

10:50pm JST Thursday 5 August 2004

Funny that I call this entry work, but I don't really consider Gateway 21 my job. I taught 6.5 hours tonight, and my head is slightly achey. I'm not sure of a quick fix.

Had a breakthrough with my second student, which is good, though seems kinda unfortunate that this was our last (of two) lessons together. I basically got her to start writing shit down instead of me just writing everything and she got the grammars for "how long have you ____," and "how much longer will you ____," and the respective answers.

Third student and I had a decent conversation, though it was apparent we were both tired. Frequent pauses while we think; similar styles.

Ah; I'm suddenly reminded I want to email Kaori back.

done.

I am on the train now, back toward home from Shinjuku; actually back home from Shibuya. Oh I had a good revelation today that may help my Japanese study. Don't worry about grammar and kanji at the same time. When I'm writing grammar, just fuckin write hiragana unless the kanji is right there in my pen. but don't look up kanji while I'm doing grammar. It just slows me down, gets me off track and shit. That was an indirect suggestion from my 3rd student whose name I still can't remember Tsukasa; that's it (I remembered) who said, "I think learning kanji is not so important."

Fair enough.

First student was cool; our first time to meet, and I had to be careful to not stare at her cleavage. I don't really remember what we talked about. Oops.

hahahahahah

1:39am JST Friday 6 August 2004

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