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AM

7:28am IST Monday 11 July 2005

We're on the way to New York City, after leaving Dublin yesterday. The Atlantic (in this area) has waves of low amplitude but long wavelength. I'd say they are 30 or 40 meter wavelength and 1 meter amplitude. At least it looks that way to me. Very slight rocking back and forth on the ship.

I look forward to bigtime rocking later on as we cross the Atlantic.

Hung out in Dave's room talking to Dave, Niveen, Natalie, Katt, Joel... and we were teaching Niveen all sorts of new vocabulary like "kinky" and "pervert" and "raspberry" and kept up a debate between "don't corrupt her" and "we're not corrupting; we are just explaining." I was a willing recipient of raspberries.

We are going to be writing postcards to various embassies that might help get the wall stopped in Palestine.

Class

11:51am IST Monday 11 July 2005

Just had the HWG edition of them interviewing Niveen. It included a bit of silence, so I am glad I gave them the grammar "tell us about _____" That helped the girls not be quite as quiet.

Kin Pente

3:11pm IST Monday 11 July 2005

Just was playing Pente with Kin. I woulda beaten her, but Koji walked up and showed her one move that beat me immediately. I guess the game is pretty simple for him.

One big entry

9:45am PST Thursday 11 August 2005

I've just finished today's first class (the Happy Wonderful Girls, two (of seven) of whom were present); I have only 4 more classes with them. It's been quite a challenge for me to know what they want/need to study because they simply won't speak up in class.

At all.

Ever.

Individually they are happy to talk and ask questions, but it's like complete silence when they are together.

11:14pm PDT Thursday 11 August 2005

I've got Francois back!! I got stuck on a couple of the clues, but it turns out I had been on the right track: a clue had been left in one of the women's restrooms up on the 7th floor, but (!) the clue had been tossed into the garbage before it could be recovered. Also, I didn't know we had folders in which students could leave us notes/messages/etc. One of the clues was like, "look where students can communicate with us," and I was like, "where ??????" but Petra was like, "go back to the GET Board" and I looked more carefully and found the folders.

For a while I got stuck on the one that was like, "In the most recent article on kidnapped rabbits, find the name of the third person quoted. That's the password of the first file," but then I realized it must be in the English news section of the boat: faked articles about rabbit-nappings, and I found it.

Katt and Kim got the password; it was the third name quoted on the page, but not within the 'most recent article' ah well; I'm just being anal.

The clue revealed in that file gave the location. Francois was tied up in a plastic bag on the back of the whiteboard in the GET meeting room labeled in Japanese [do not steal, please.]

Tonight's rabbit search was interrupted by the Fashion Show, including the Sweat Shop Fashion Show (( short version: Nike bad; GAP bad; Timberland good )). I'm going to alter my beloved GAP hoodie to say "BOYCOTT GAP" instead of just GAP.

Now Katt and I are going to watch Simpsons episodes.

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1:15am IST Tuesday 12 July 2005

Today and tonight I spent a lot of time on my computer, downloading the videos of Niveen being interviewed by my classes for viewing tomorrow. Flirted with Natalie a bit. No one showed up for Silent Football except for Hitomi, who showed me pictures from Dublin and took Francois when she left. Maybe for a good washing. I didn't really flirt with Kuni today. I talked to Allison about our respective relationship situations. Tough stuff.

Natalie had NIN halo 8, which I tried to import on my machine, but it kept spinning the CD up and timing out after a minute of high speed spinning. This was completely unstoppable and completely frustrating, but finally I just powercycled the machine and got it imported.