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Lesson

11:44am JST Friday 5 November 2004

Japanese lesson was not as bad as I thought. We chatted a bit about Osama Bin Laden's recent speech; I was mostly able to express myself in Japanese, but hardly accurately and definitely not eloquently. But definitely better than, say, when I arrived in Japan. (especially considering the speech hadn't been given yet.)

For a variety of possible reasons, we looked at a couple of new grammars that were not too difficult for me. Even learned a new counter: "satsu" さつ or 冊。

This was the day we met in the Starbucks in Nakameguro because Ayana was working across the street from there. Today the whipped cream machine wasn't working properly, resulting in the staff trying to tweak it in various ways that did not include filling it with more product, and resulting in her saying in English, "I'm sorry," very remorsefully and immediately following up with the standard, "ありがとうございます！" very genkily. What a weird thing.