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tammaiya~ I am wearing so many socks that shoes won't fit on my feet. *contemplative* This is nice when I'm padding around my room, but annoying when I need to shove the shoes that don't fit on to go do my washing.
~ Usually when I do my washing my greatest issue is having enough 100 yen coins, because it basically costs 300 yen (in 100 yen coins) to wash and dry a single (small) load of washing. Today I have an abundance of coins, but ran out of washing detergent, which I can really only get from Musashi Sakai, because after LAST time and the bleaching incident, I refuse to use anything else, especially anything else from a combini which is the only detergent I'd be getting around this time of night.
~ I forgot to mention this yesterday but my ipod is broken. This annoys me greatly, although not as greatly as it would have earlier in the year before I managed to move my music to my laptop. (The ipod almost died back then, too, and I freaked out hardcore.)
~ I met Tamaki-chan's mother today. She speaks rather good English, so we were speaking in that instead of Japanese-- she thanked me for teaching her daughter, and I said not at all, Tamaki's great to teach, which is true. Then she asked how Tamaki's speaking is-- I said it's pretty good and she was really surprised. Apparently Tamaki is really shy and doesn't talk much about herself, not even to her mother. I hadn't noticed anything like that at all, I've never had any trouble getting Tamaki to talk, so I guess I must be doing SOMETHING right. Anyway, Tamaki's mother was really nice, and she asked if they could have my contact details when I went back to Australia so they could keep in touch with me, which I'm happy to do. Stuff like that always makes me really happy; sometimes I wonder if I should be a teacher, but one-on-one is a very different dynamic to teaching a class and there are other considerations I'd have to take into account as well. Anyway.
~ On the other hand, I'm losing two students as of the end of this month. Yui-chan (the 4 year old) is starting ballet and gave plenty of notice, so I can understand that, I'm just a little sad because I've been teaching her since April and it's been good watching her mature and get better and more confident with her English. The other student, Christine, has an hour long lesson weekly, so I'm a little worried about how my income will go after this month. Aaagh, just what I needed on top of the state of the Australian dollar. *sigh* Anyway, it's really sudden; I found out today that next Wednesday will be her last lesson, and I can only conclude that she decided she didn't find my lessons useful. My ego is a little bruised by this, but not TOO badly, because I've taught enough students (both in Japanese and in English) that I'm fairly confident in my own abilities; we just never really clicked. I think the problem is that she doesn't listen. She always wants to rush through the book ASAP and she gets antsy about doing the grammar exercises because she claims to know it all already, says she practices it by herself and doesn't want to spend time on it, and I'd respect that except for the fact she makes a lot of mistakes. Given her speaking fluency and accent and reading level are all reasonably high, it's the basic fundamentals of tense formation that she really needs to be concentrating on-- she's not quite to the standard of writing proper essays yet, but that's not what she wants to hear. Frankly I'm not really sure what she wanted from me, because while it's not like she never said anything about it, she never really gave any proper clear indication.
... Okay, enough blowing off steam. *cough*
~ Entirely changing tack, I started the Soul Eater game. My overall response is positive, although there are things that annoy me about it. It follows the manga-- or at least has been so far-- but changed the order and content of certain events to make them more translatable into gameplay. Plus some of the best bits of dialogue are cut. Anyway, right now the thing that annoys me is, if I die before a boss fight, having to go through all the damn dialogue again. STUPID STEIN, I LOVE YOU AND ALL BUT STOP FSDJKLFJSDKLFDS KILLING ME!!!
~ Mm, I should go rescue my washing from the dryers... sigh.
~ Usually when I do my washing my greatest issue is having enough 100 yen coins, because it basically costs 300 yen (in 100 yen coins) to wash and dry a single (small) load of washing. Today I have an abundance of coins, but ran out of washing detergent, which I can really only get from Musashi Sakai, because after LAST time and the bleaching incident, I refuse to use anything else, especially anything else from a combini which is the only detergent I'd be getting around this time of night.
~ I forgot to mention this yesterday but my ipod is broken. This annoys me greatly, although not as greatly as it would have earlier in the year before I managed to move my music to my laptop. (The ipod almost died back then, too, and I freaked out hardcore.)
~ I met Tamaki-chan's mother today. She speaks rather good English, so we were speaking in that instead of Japanese-- she thanked me for teaching her daughter, and I said not at all, Tamaki's great to teach, which is true. Then she asked how Tamaki's speaking is-- I said it's pretty good and she was really surprised. Apparently Tamaki is really shy and doesn't talk much about herself, not even to her mother. I hadn't noticed anything like that at all, I've never had any trouble getting Tamaki to talk, so I guess I must be doing SOMETHING right. Anyway, Tamaki's mother was really nice, and she asked if they could have my contact details when I went back to Australia so they could keep in touch with me, which I'm happy to do. Stuff like that always makes me really happy; sometimes I wonder if I should be a teacher, but one-on-one is a very different dynamic to teaching a class and there are other considerations I'd have to take into account as well. Anyway.
~ On the other hand, I'm losing two students as of the end of this month. Yui-chan (the 4 year old) is starting ballet and gave plenty of notice, so I can understand that, I'm just a little sad because I've been teaching her since April and it's been good watching her mature and get better and more confident with her English. The other student, Christine, has an hour long lesson weekly, so I'm a little worried about how my income will go after this month. Aaagh, just what I needed on top of the state of the Australian dollar. *sigh* Anyway, it's really sudden; I found out today that next Wednesday will be her last lesson, and I can only conclude that she decided she didn't find my lessons useful. My ego is a little bruised by this, but not TOO badly, because I've taught enough students (both in Japanese and in English) that I'm fairly confident in my own abilities; we just never really clicked. I think the problem is that she doesn't listen. She always wants to rush through the book ASAP and she gets antsy about doing the grammar exercises because she claims to know it all already, says she practices it by herself and doesn't want to spend time on it, and I'd respect that except for the fact she makes a lot of mistakes. Given her speaking fluency and accent and reading level are all reasonably high, it's the basic fundamentals of tense formation that she really needs to be concentrating on-- she's not quite to the standard of writing proper essays yet, but that's not what she wants to hear. Frankly I'm not really sure what she wanted from me, because while it's not like she never said anything about it, she never really gave any proper clear indication.
... Okay, enough blowing off steam. *cough*
~ Entirely changing tack, I started the Soul Eater game. My overall response is positive, although there are things that annoy me about it. It follows the manga-- or at least has been so far-- but changed the order and content of certain events to make them more translatable into gameplay. Plus some of the best bits of dialogue are cut. Anyway, right now the thing that annoys me is, if I die before a boss fight, having to go through all the damn dialogue again. STUPID STEIN, I LOVE YOU AND ALL BUT STOP FSDJKLFJSDKLFDS KILLING ME!!!
~ Mm, I should go rescue my washing from the dryers... sigh.
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Date: 2008-11-16 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-17 07:08 am (UTC)p.s. I too hated the laundry machines, but moreso the dryers *evil glare in the direction of Tokyo*
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Date: 2008-11-17 07:09 am (UTC)