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catbus because I had no classes until 6pm. I made her go up to Saitama Shintoshin with me so we could get huge avocado burgers at Kua'Aina, and then we saw the movie.
As far as Ghibli movies go, it was definitely more of a happy movie and less of a dark movie like his other ones in recent years have been... (I'm a fan of the happy cute ones like Kiki... but not so much the surreal dark ones, which is why I wouldn't usually call myself a Miyazaki fan, though that mostly stems from not being an anime fan). There were of course a bunch of his typical brief interludes into What-the-Fuck-land, but in general they didn't detract from the movie as much as usual. There was a lot of Retardedly Cute, and best of all, it made me realize how far I really have come with my listening, because I caught 95% of the movie dialog just fine; I think the parts I missed were bizarre magical contracts (like... exactly how the hell Ponyo's parents were affecting the moon, things like that). Of course, there shouldn't be anything special about having the listening ability of a young child, right?
One funny thing: they made a big deal over how Kazushige Nagashima was a "star" in this movie, but in reality, dude, he played Sosuke's dad and he had like TEN LINES OF DIALOG TOTAL WTF. I love Junior as much as anyone but seriously...
I know I'm not supposed to talk about work here but I think people might get a kick out of what happened in today's kids lesson (these are my Good Kids, not my Bad Kids). We were supposed to be doing body parts -- "I cut my finger", and the targets were finger, hand, arm, knee, toe, foot. So after doing some Super-Speed-On-Crack renditions of "Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes", and a game of Simon Says... I finished up class with a bizarre version of Wall Twister, essentially. I had dice, where one die had red and yellow and green sides, and the other die had the six target body parts. And on the wall I had put a bunch of construction paper squares at kid-knee and kid-arm height.
First, we'd roll both dice and take turns calling colors/parts. "Red finger!" "Green toes!" "Yellow arm!" and so on, and people would touch one of the squares on the wall of that particular color with that particular body part.
And THEN the KIDS actually decided to do what I was going to encourage them to do -- one of them rolled twice and was like "Green toes... AND RED HAND!"
Once they figured out that they could roll the dice many times and do their best to make each other fall over from being unable to physically touch the wall with, say, both FEET, they really got into it, and tried to make ME fall over as well.
Sometimes kids' classes really aren't so bad. Honest.
My dad's chemo seems to be going well for him so far, oddly enough. I don't think I'd ever heard before of someone feeling BETTER after they start their chemo treatments, but he's weird.
And after talking to him on Skype I watched tonight's episode of Walkin' Butterfly. It really is kinda predictable in a lot of ways but that doesn't mean that when Mihara smiled for the first time in the entire series (and this is... 7th episode?) it wasn't still a nice moment. Can't decide if I buy Michiko only needing one episode to get over Sempai, though. Hrm.
Oh, one last yucky thing. When I woke up this morning there was a cockroach crawling up my backpack. It was relatively small but it was still the first one I'd ever SEEN in this apartment. Ewwww. I sprayed it a lot and then tried to get back to sleep but couldn't due to the taste of Bug Death Chemicals still in my mouth. Bleh. I started cleaning my apartment up again tonight, but...
catbus because I had no classes until 6pm. I made her go up to Saitama Shintoshin with me so we could get huge avocado burgers at Kua'Aina, and then we saw the movie.As far as Ghibli movies go, it was definitely more of a happy movie and less of a dark movie like his other ones in recent years have been... (I'm a fan of the happy cute ones like Kiki... but not so much the surreal dark ones, which is why I wouldn't usually call myself a Miyazaki fan, though that mostly stems from not being an anime fan). There were of course a bunch of his typical brief interludes into What-the-Fuck-land, but in general they didn't detract from the movie as much as usual. There was a lot of Retardedly Cute, and best of all, it made me realize how far I really have come with my listening, because I caught 95% of the movie dialog just fine; I think the parts I missed were bizarre magical contracts (like... exactly how the hell Ponyo's parents were affecting the moon, things like that). Of course, there shouldn't be anything special about having the listening ability of a young child, right?
One funny thing: they made a big deal over how Kazushige Nagashima was a "star" in this movie, but in reality, dude, he played Sosuke's dad and he had like TEN LINES OF DIALOG TOTAL WTF. I love Junior as much as anyone but seriously...
I know I'm not supposed to talk about work here but I think people might get a kick out of what happened in today's kids lesson (these are my Good Kids, not my Bad Kids). We were supposed to be doing body parts -- "I cut my finger", and the targets were finger, hand, arm, knee, toe, foot. So after doing some Super-Speed-On-Crack renditions of "Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes", and a game of Simon Says... I finished up class with a bizarre version of Wall Twister, essentially. I had dice, where one die had red and yellow and green sides, and the other die had the six target body parts. And on the wall I had put a bunch of construction paper squares at kid-knee and kid-arm height.
First, we'd roll both dice and take turns calling colors/parts. "Red finger!" "Green toes!" "Yellow arm!" and so on, and people would touch one of the squares on the wall of that particular color with that particular body part.
And THEN the KIDS actually decided to do what I was going to encourage them to do -- one of them rolled twice and was like "Green toes... AND RED HAND!"
Once they figured out that they could roll the dice many times and do their best to make each other fall over from being unable to physically touch the wall with, say, both FEET, they really got into it, and tried to make ME fall over as well.
Sometimes kids' classes really aren't so bad. Honest.
My dad's chemo seems to be going well for him so far, oddly enough. I don't think I'd ever heard before of someone feeling BETTER after they start their chemo treatments, but he's weird.
And after talking to him on Skype I watched tonight's episode of Walkin' Butterfly. It really is kinda predictable in a lot of ways but that doesn't mean that when Mihara smiled for the first time in the entire series (and this is... 7th episode?) it wasn't still a nice moment. Can't decide if I buy Michiko only needing one episode to get over Sempai, though. Hrm.
Oh, one last yucky thing. When I woke up this morning there was a cockroach crawling up my backpack. It was relatively small but it was still the first one I'd ever SEEN in this apartment. Ewwww. I sprayed it a lot and then tried to get back to sleep but couldn't due to the taste of Bug Death Chemicals still in my mouth. Bleh. I started cleaning my apartment up again tonight, but...
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That's awesome that you could understand so much of it. I tried watching Tonari no Totoro in Japanese once and did alright, although I definitely didn't get 95%!
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