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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Friday, July 26, 2002 |
 Taiko in the evening- and, being in the non-air-conditioned gym, after
about 1.3 seconds of drumming, I was drenched in sweat. Oh well, I
suppose it's a good way to get fit...
A moment of drama occurred when a huge mukade (like a centipede
on steroids, with a vicious bite, apparently) was spotted. Well, being
in the gym, to hand was... a badminton racquet. One of the girls
promptly took up this racquet and, using the frame, killed the bug. A
cool customer (the girl, not the bug).
(By the way, it had green blood...)
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My latest Ciao opinion is about the iPod. It's received some excellent
reviews...
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I finally, absolutely, got the article for the Japan-US Naval Friendship
Association out of the way. I sent off the alternative headnote, and my
contact approved it. Perhaps he's been as anxious to get the whole thing
sorted as I have...
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Spent most of the morning in talks with a school from Mie Prefecture.
They're coming to Seinen-no-ie next July, and they want me to give a
speech. Except that they want it to be in English, and to include
English language games. Well, I have two objections to this. Firstly,
there are very few high schools whose first year pupils are good enough
at English to be able to understand even a simple speech. Secondly, I'm
not an English teacher. Indeed, my visa prohibits me from teaching
English.
But of course, there was no way I was going to get something
like this across. The lady was certainly one of the 'foreigner=English
teacher' club, and no matter how many times I explained- indirectly, of
course- that I wasn't going to be doing what she wanted, nothing
changed. In the end, I explained directly that I wasn't doing it
in the form she wanted, and in the end we agreed the possibility of an
alternative format- but even now, I think she still really wants English
games; she asked me to look for some AETs to come along with me. Well, I
didn't tell her at this point, but quite apart from the logistics of
getting AETs from Hiroshima Prefecture to help a school from Mie
Prefecture, if she really wants AETs then she can count me out. If I'm
doing a speech, then I'm doing it on my own, and I'm doing it properly,
and I'm not including English games. If she wants clowns or babysitters
(which seems, unfortunately, to be the way most teachers view AETs),
then fair enough- but I won't be a part of it.
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
shapeless hoarse bride leaps
brusquely, brusquely, eel
reddening rudely
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