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Today

7:04am ChST Thursday 23 March 2006 (day 13147)

Yesterday I chatted with a woman named Margaret in Yacht Club; I thought she was a guest speaker, but she is actually an immigration officer who scoped all our passports to make sure we could legally visit PNG (Papa New Guinea). She has four kids, one of whom doesn't remember his father who died five years ago. We chatted for well over an hour, during which time I was scheduled to have an English lesson with Kiichi, who never showed up.

After that, I met Fantastic Rabbits and Fighting Goats in a combined party thing because they said they wanted to meet each other. We did introductions, talked about plans after the voyage, and five year plans. 9 of my 12 students came: Ann (Akiko), Emily (Chie), Kelly (Kaoru), George (Koji), Carol (Erika), Sugar (Hiroko), Eye (Hitomi), Michelle (Satoko), Alice (Sachiko). No Jerry (Naoko), Angelina (Tamami), nor Carol (Rie).

After that, I hung out with Eri, who helped me with my speech a bit, and then we got into a conversation about relationships with people of very different ages; I said I had labeled some people as "too young" to date, but she argued that if they are adults, they are old enough. I argued that I didn't want to be the first (nor second) to bruise an unblemished heart.

Met three of my students who are giving speeches (Erika, George, Alice), then GET Meeting and port orientation, then the long awaited dinner with GET and CC Girls (I wore my 'sultan costume') then sat with Eri at the lecture about the history of PB, then walked around with her on top deck watching stars, talking about our respective relationship situations.

I scheduled meditation time with her on Yacht Club this morning.

WW2 lecture

1:15pm ChST Wednesday 22 March 2006

Just watched a video on Japan from before WW2- a video called something like "colorful Japan" because they claim people thought there was no color video from Japan before 1945.

But the video was presented as just visual, and then the audio was a lecture given to a small group of English and Japanese speakers about WW2, trying to combine the perspectives from US, Japan, and German points of view.

Way too much information for me to get 10% of it, but I got some, during the time I wasn't sleeping on Francois as a convenient little pillow.

Going to lunch now and then gotta meet Kiichi in Yacht Club for a lesson.