Entries this day: AM Breakfast_with_Fighting_Goats Fantastic_Rabbits Next_invitation Today Wow! sparty zz_mombassa_challenge_program_booklet

AM

7:05am MVT Friday 13 January 2006

No freaky dreams.

Perfect timing brought Carla and I outside our doors at the same time, and I found my phone in her room.

Breakfast with Fighting Goats

7:44am MVT Friday 13 January 2006

Met Fighting Goats for breakfast in Topaz Dining, that 'luxurious' dining hall just above my room and just below GET Street, where we are greeted at the door and during buffet meals handed our trays, or led to our tables when it's a four course meal.

Breakfast is served buffet style; we 7 sat at a 6 person table and one at the next table because "the tables are like lifeboats, we can't add an extra chair or it will be off balance," according to one of the waitstaff.

In Topaz, breakfast includes eggs, sausage or bacon, waffles (( I will always think of Shawn, who always assured us "I love waffles" as he piled them high on his plate. )), rice, okayu (messy soupy rice), sliced fruit (orange, apple and/or pineapple), natto (disgusting fermented beans that many Japanese love), and water, then orange juice or milk.

We didn't chat much during breakfast, but it was hopefully an okay experience for them.

Fantastic Rabbits

9:40am MVT Friday 13 January 2006

Nice class with Fantastic Rabbits; we started with a discussion of English signs on the ship, and when Angelina asked where we could find "Emergency Escape Breathing Device" on a sign, I thought we could work on giving directions to go find it. I gave them directions to where I knew we could find an EEBD, and sent them to it. Then had one of them give directions back to our room.

Finished going through the signs they had written down, and then had a bit of a field trip as different people gave directions to different places. Down on third floor there was a lot of crew traffic as they carried various things various places, but were always polite with us as we basically got out of the way.

In the last ten minutes of class, we zipped through some prepositions on a slideshow made by Petra, then it was 9:26, one minute past the time to escape. (*)

(*) Escape is a verb that basically all Japanese know. There wasn't actually an emergency.

Next invitation

10:20am MVT Friday 13 January 2006

Carl and I started writing a funny (!) invites

Given that your number exceeded our wildest expectations (and was
above zero), we have gathered the courage to ask for your commitment
to marriage, or at least another date.

Specifically, crepe night at the Hemmingway.

Today

7:13pm MVT Friday 13 January 2006

Got some shizzle done todizzle, especially the Mombazzle Chazzle Prizzle. Right nizzle, my calendazzle be locked in GET rizzle tizzle, but just gotsta eazle in Topazzle.

I'm in charge of printing the Mobassa Challenge Program workbook once it's all laid out. That will pretty much be easily done, given the suggestion by Petra to do the resizing on computer instead of with the copy machine. That just assumes that I will be able to use Microsoft Windows sucks programs.

I have now met all of my students, and have come to the clear conclusion, the girls who I thought were higher than the others actually need lower level material. Not sure what happened, but the M class is able to handle higher level stuff than the N class.

Wow!

1:47am SCT Saturday 14 January 2006

Wow! I met Erick (sp) Tielking's (sp) Japanese teacher tonight in Topaz Dining!! I wasn't really happy with my seat for most of the meal; I was with some random passengers, none of whom seemed willing to talk, and I sure wasn't willing to talk, and I saw lots of GET Ts come in after I did, so I could have sat with them.. But, in the end, people started talking and I disclosed my neighborhood and one woman perked up and told me she's a teacher at the International Lounge, and turns out she teaches Erick! We got a picture together that I may send to him via her.

sparty

10:51pm MVT Friday 13 January 2006

We're having a Sparty tonight up on top deck; my fingers are all wrinkly after soaking in the hot tub for nearly 2 hours. Going to help Kelly and Laura with Mombassa CP stuff now.

zz mombassa challenge program booklet

2:23am MVT Saturday 14 January 2006

1:25am SCT Saturday 14 January 2006

We are in Seychelles time now!

After Laura and Kellie finished their painstakingly detailed pages, I arranged them and figured out in what order to scan them for best copying and binding. There is one program on the GET Room 8 computer that does a nice job of printing double sided pages that fit the paper. However, it only works with TIF files, and I haven't figured out how to get the scanner / computer-import process to consistently creat TIF files. Sometimes they are TIF, and sometimes they are JPG.

BUT, I have put together one (1) useable rough draft, so if nothing else good happens (such as when I scanned all the pages one at a time to get good dpi, and they all turned out to be .JPG), we can just print the rough draft version as if it's the real deal.