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I lost my Dragonbutt
Keychain, that is. But I'll get to that in a second.
I didn't write an entry last night because I pretty much just completely conked out around 2am. I felt like I couldn't even just sit up anymore, so I went to sleep.
Between 12:30am and 2am I took the JLPT 4-kyuu from 2006. This is the lowest level of the test and I was expecting to get around 90-95% on it. I got 49/55 on vocab, 14/17 on listening, and 99/112 on reading/grammar, for a total of 88% overall. Hrm. On the other hand you're supposed to get 100 minutes for the test and I pretty much just stampeded through it in an hour, so maybe that counts for part of it too. I couldn't remember: when we really took the test, did we only get to listen to each listening part once, or did they play them twice? I only listened once and that accounts for 2 of the errors (where I literally just let my mind wander for a few seconds and missed an important word).
I'll take the 3-kyuu sometime soon too to get an idea of where I stand (I bought a 3/4 testbook). I'm expecting to get around 70-75% on it. If I don't, there's a problem. I took and passed the 3-kyuu in December 2001, so maybe I've forgotten some of the specific stuff I studied but I'd hope that I've made it up just by, you know, living in Japan and reading Japanese newspapers. I'll probably try to go through it in more than an hour :)
Then I'll go get a 2-kyuu test book and see how much I bomb it and figure out where to go from there.
Anyway, as for the rest of the day... I brought my maple cookies from Costco to work and they were a BIG hit with people. Combine that with leftover candy and tea and juice from the party and many people were like "Awww, maybe we should go to the next one!" I had a really busy day because my flex student had a lesson at 1, and then we had a guy (who had just come back from studying in Australia for 5 years and had a really great Australian accent) come in randomly to ask about GEOS at 6ish, so all I ate during the day was a bagel before work, lots of cookies during work, a yakisobapan I grabbed from the bakery, and a bagel after work. I can't help but think that's not good.
Something else that's not good, as I mentioned, is that I LOST MY MORINO KEYCHAIN :( It was hanging on my cellphone and I got to the station and it WASN'T hanging on my cellphone. I backtracked my path to the station and even unlocked GEOS to look around there too but I didn't find it :( I might have dropped it around Akabane when I was getting dinner or something too... I really have no idea. But it was my glittery shiny Chunichi Dragons Japan Series Champions keychain that I got right after the Japan Series and I'm really not sure I can actually replace it. I have to wonder whether most people actually buy baseball keychains and keep them on their phones or if they just buy them and keep them at home -- because it seems REALLY easy to lose these things? Or maybe it's just the way I hold my cellphone, I guess.
I promised everyone a special Christmas lesson next week since I have to work on Christmas itself. Now I just have to, uh, think up a lesson...
I didn't write an entry last night because I pretty much just completely conked out around 2am. I felt like I couldn't even just sit up anymore, so I went to sleep.
Between 12:30am and 2am I took the JLPT 4-kyuu from 2006. This is the lowest level of the test and I was expecting to get around 90-95% on it. I got 49/55 on vocab, 14/17 on listening, and 99/112 on reading/grammar, for a total of 88% overall. Hrm. On the other hand you're supposed to get 100 minutes for the test and I pretty much just stampeded through it in an hour, so maybe that counts for part of it too. I couldn't remember: when we really took the test, did we only get to listen to each listening part once, or did they play them twice? I only listened once and that accounts for 2 of the errors (where I literally just let my mind wander for a few seconds and missed an important word).
I'll take the 3-kyuu sometime soon too to get an idea of where I stand (I bought a 3/4 testbook). I'm expecting to get around 70-75% on it. If I don't, there's a problem. I took and passed the 3-kyuu in December 2001, so maybe I've forgotten some of the specific stuff I studied but I'd hope that I've made it up just by, you know, living in Japan and reading Japanese newspapers. I'll probably try to go through it in more than an hour :)
Then I'll go get a 2-kyuu test book and see how much I bomb it and figure out where to go from there.
Anyway, as for the rest of the day... I brought my maple cookies from Costco to work and they were a BIG hit with people. Combine that with leftover candy and tea and juice from the party and many people were like "Awww, maybe we should go to the next one!" I had a really busy day because my flex student had a lesson at 1, and then we had a guy (who had just come back from studying in Australia for 5 years and had a really great Australian accent) come in randomly to ask about GEOS at 6ish, so all I ate during the day was a bagel before work, lots of cookies during work, a yakisobapan I grabbed from the bakery, and a bagel after work. I can't help but think that's not good.
Something else that's not good, as I mentioned, is that I LOST MY MORINO KEYCHAIN :( It was hanging on my cellphone and I got to the station and it WASN'T hanging on my cellphone. I backtracked my path to the station and even unlocked GEOS to look around there too but I didn't find it :( I might have dropped it around Akabane when I was getting dinner or something too... I really have no idea. But it was my glittery shiny Chunichi Dragons Japan Series Champions keychain that I got right after the Japan Series and I'm really not sure I can actually replace it. I have to wonder whether most people actually buy baseball keychains and keep them on their phones or if they just buy them and keep them at home -- because it seems REALLY easy to lose these things? Or maybe it's just the way I hold my cellphone, I guess.
I promised everyone a special Christmas lesson next week since I have to work on Christmas itself. Now I just have to, uh, think up a lesson...