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Palestine Presentation

10:05pm NZDT Tuesday 14 March 2006 (day 13138)

I did my Palestine Presentation today! Special thanks to everyone who encouraged me, and to CCs Yuki and Erika who CCed for me, and to Petra who loaned me her computer for the presentation.

I didn't get to say nearly as much as I wanted to, but I gave an overview history from the past 10,000 years, and then told about 2.5 of maybe 5 different things I had planned to talk about. Had to gloss over a lot, but still everyone said it was good and many people said they were interested in hearing more.

Today

10:08pm NZDT Tuesday 14 March 2006 (day 13138)

Today I basically recited my Japanese speech from memory; I know most of it, but still have some trouble with a couple of the new vocabulary words. I have really enjoyed studying each day with Akane. Today we did Japanese for about 20 minutes and then I gave her a sneak preview of what I planned to say about Palestine.

After dinner I met Abebe in the hall; I recently met her in the newspaper, and wanted to talk to her because she is deaf. Today I got my chance to say HI to her and found that she knows enough ASL that we could nearly say more than My Name Is. She showed all the signs for the Japanese alphabet, but they are pretty impossible to pick up quickly. I'll stick with romanji and ASL. I told her the story of how I met Rie in ASL and how we traded language studytime back in the day.

I also seem to have misplaced my phone (which I use as my handy pocket watch) this afternoon during the GET Meeting. I doubt it went far.

I'm super tired, but am supposed to work on newspaper tonight.

12:09am NZDT Wednesday 15 March 2006

Abebe brought to the newspaper table her diary of a few lines in English and Japanese; I checked it and returned it to her room. Their door is decorated with pictures from the voyage augmented with markers identifying people or making them say various things or otherwise make them funnier or more interesting.

I drew four small-titles this evening.

Still can't find my phone.