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Last lesson with Ayana

11:54am JST Friday 13 May 2005

My last lesson with Ayana was nice. She bought me a chocolate chunk scone and we yammered a bit about PB. She checked all my homework, most of which was perfect, and then we practiced a new grammar that I thought was difficult last night (when I did my homework), but is actually not so bad.

武さんは猫を飼いますか。

武さんは猫を飼うかどうか分からない。

She asked me to write a reference letter for her if I have time. I can do that.

Ayana has been teaching me Japanese consistently every week for two
years.  Even in my darkest dreariest days of loathing Japanese and
the idea of studying, she has supported me with understanding and
patience.  She allows me to direct the lesson if I have outside
materials to work on

Work covering for Jen

5:23pm JST Friday 13 May 2005

First lesson today was pretty good. I had a more extendable lesson that focused on one topic: animals. Starting with vocabulary of dog and cat and asking do you have a dog / do you have a cat, then expanding to "pet" and do you want a pet?

Then when it was fill in the remaining time, I did a fill in the blank of animals and body parts, starting with a tail that I forgot to draw on the horse.

7:10pm JST Friday 13 May 2005

Second lesson was even better than the first. The students were fewer and more responsive as a whole. Plus, not many of them stalled due to lack of paying attention.

8:18pm JST Friday 13 May 2005

Last lesson was the best ever. This is the class that last time was so inattentive that I resorted to paying money at the very end to the one student who could prove she had been listening. This time, however, I was running out of material at the end because they were so attentive so I figure out a game. I thought of an animal. Taught them the grammar "does it have ______?" and they tried to guess what it had and didn't have and I told them yes or no until they guessed. Fish and Giraffe.

om stands for Oh Man

10:00pm JST Friday 13 May 2005

Uh oh. Jen just called me; she's stuck in Saipan because the flight was cancelled... so she won't be able to fly out tonight to be at OM tomorrow. OM is going to flip.

And I don't mean a flip of joy.

Yikes stripes!

12:32am JST Saturday 14 May 2005

I just reached OM and let him know. He didn't seem to mussed; I hope he continues to feel easy about everything.