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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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Thursday, August 29, 2002 |
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Meeting after lunch with one of the teachers from Koyo, to talk about
the term's International Understanding lessons for the school. I'd
thought since a while back that this teacher was one of the two or three
who 'believe' (sounds like the X-Files!), and this impression had been
reinforced by the fact that he'd not joined in the nastiness yesterday,
so I wasn't particularly dreading this meeting.
It turns out that my
impression was correct- we had a productive discussion, and agreed a
programme of 'a continent a lesson' for the next term- a bit of
geography, a bit of language, pictures, quizzes and so on. In other
words, a near-ideal International Understanding course (not based solely
on English-speaking countries, not focused entirely on eikaiwa,
and using the CIR intelligently, as a resource)!
If only the other
six schools would take a leaf out of Koyo's book...
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Went to buy pan for lunch, and on my way back I was stopped
(actually, followed) by a lady who lives across from the Town Office.
She gushed on (and on, and on) about how good my newsletter articles
are- "There's nobody in Etajima who can write the sort of Japanese you
do" (a splendidly ambiguous phrase!)- and said she'd especially liked
the August article.
I thanked her for her praise, and nodded as she
carried on and on about the August article. In the end, though, I was
forced to admit that I hadn't the faintest recollection about what I
wrote in August! The deadline for any given month is the 10th of the
month before, so I wrote the article she was referring to nearly two
months ago now...
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Yes... it is indeed hot. According to my computer, at 2.35, it's 36
degrees, with a heat index of 38.6 degrees...
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It's damn hot today (especially considering that it'll be September at
the weekend); walking out of the air conditioning is like walking into a
sauna.
However, it's a different heat- drier, 'crisper'- than the
very middle of summer, which makes it infinitely more tolerable. And the
air is so clear today!- everything positively sparkles, and it really is
like you can see every leaf on every tree on the hills and mountains.
It's a sort of exhilarating brightness.
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
lustrous dumb earthworms
hide hide slyly
bodies yearning clock
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:33:21 pm.
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