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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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Monday, October 21, 2002 |
 Gokurakutombo
Play solo
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Full moon- very Japanese
Until shishi bumped into climbing frame
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Taiko outside
It's amazing how the fact of an upcoming festival concentrates minds. Having not really bothered about practices in the past,
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Sometimes, I think I work in a madhouse. The rest of the time, I'm sure of it.
The other day, Shinbe-san and Koguri-san came up with some crazy scheme to stop me from speaking Japanese for three days when the new person moves in to the apartment next to mine. Apparently, when this new chap called in to the office, they persuaded him that the person in charge of the apartments (that is, me) only spoke English, and so now they want to make him believe this by having me speak only English to him for his first three days in the apartment. Presumably they figured that after three days, he'd be at his wits' end- not to mention me (I hate speaking English to Japanese people who only understand the most basic of sentences).
Anyway, just before I left for Tsukumo, Shinbe-san casually announced that she'd asked someone (she wouldn't tell me who, except that this speech-writer lived outside Hiroshima Prefecture!) to come up with a welcome speech for me (as the representative of the apartments) to deliver to this new chap when he moves in, and that there would be a fax arriving sometime soon. The thing is, she'd gone so far as to get the speech written in the sort of Japanese that someone who couldn't speak Japanese would use, and also insisted that it be written in roman script rather than kanji. Quite apart from anything else, does she not realise how painful it is to read Japanese written in roman script? And isn't it taking things just a little bit far to find someone (presumably Japanese) who can write a speech in bad Japanese
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My invitation to the Naval Review arrived today. Of course I'll be attending- it's a great spectacle (and there's a garden party afterwards, too!)
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Two lessons in Tsukumo in the afternoon. I was going to suggest we tried Kabaddi straightaway, but, talking to the teachers, I decided to go with something less energetic.
In both the 1-3 year lesson and the 4-6 year lesson, we played Go Fish. As I'd expected, the first and second years found it hard going, although it has to be said that this was at least partly due to the fact that this year's first years seem to think that they're exempt from any sort of
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I discovered a new game to play with the elementary school students, in both school visits and as part of an International Club event. It's a primarily Indian game, called Kabaddi. There are details of the game here. I think this might be popular in Etajima...!
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Well, I was expecting a fight about the content of the lessons in Akizuki on Thursday, but in the end there was nothing for me to complain about. The teachers all requested sensible (and more to the point doable) things. I never really look forward to a week that includes a visit to Akizuki, but I feel much happier about the week ahead now.
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:49:33 pm.
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