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First off, I did NOTHING on Monday. I woke up with a somewhat annoying hangover, laid on my futon for a while on the floor, then did laundry. I thought about going to Yokohama or Jingu for baseball, but decided against it. I really don't know where the day went. I did watch the Rakuten game on the internet for a while in the evening and I chatted with Westbay about some ideas for baseball programming projects for me in the offseason (should it concern me that he sometimes jokes about me being his "apprentice"?) and I got dinner at the Nishikawaguchi Kura for what might be the last time ever, and well, that's about it for the day. There was no Ainori and I didn't finish any writing or anything else much besides laundry.
Tuesday was today, and I had work, and I had that stupid incident at Heiroku. Also, my coworker Kazumi went to some shop near Akabane and got me boxes to use for moving, which was nice.
It's been a week now and I have told most of my students the following news now, so I think I can say it in a public entry, but... I'm ending my time at GEOS fairly soon. My last day is October 21. I'll be going back to the US sometime in November, for a few months, to take care of my dad (who has lung cancer), to see my brother and sister-in-law (who are having a baby in November), and so on and so forth. I plan to return to Japan in the spring. Yes, I think I'm probably ditching the JLPT until July of next year, sadly.
As for today, several of my students wanted me to tell my dad that they are concerned about him. I haven't been going into discussions about it much, because English school should be a fun and happy place for people, but today one of my active classes was asking me how to say a lot of cancer-related words in English because they have also had relatives go through it:
We talked about Randy Pausch a little. And we talked about lung cancer, and one of my students said "I'll let my husband stop smoking," and I said "Err... do you mean you want him to stop? And you'll force him?" "Yeah." "You mean, you'll MAKE him stop."
And on another note, this is just too funny. I was using Stitch as a prop for a conversation and one of my students stuck him inside a roll of tape:
Whee. I should sleep.
Tuesday was today, and I had work, and I had that stupid incident at Heiroku. Also, my coworker Kazumi went to some shop near Akabane and got me boxes to use for moving, which was nice.
It's been a week now and I have told most of my students the following news now, so I think I can say it in a public entry, but... I'm ending my time at GEOS fairly soon. My last day is October 21. I'll be going back to the US sometime in November, for a few months, to take care of my dad (who has lung cancer), to see my brother and sister-in-law (who are having a baby in November), and so on and so forth. I plan to return to Japan in the spring. Yes, I think I'm probably ditching the JLPT until July of next year, sadly.
As for today, several of my students wanted me to tell my dad that they are concerned about him. I haven't been going into discussions about it much, because English school should be a fun and happy place for people, but today one of my active classes was asking me how to say a lot of cancer-related words in English because they have also had relatives go through it:
We talked about Randy Pausch a little. And we talked about lung cancer, and one of my students said "I'll let my husband stop smoking," and I said "Err... do you mean you want him to stop? And you'll force him?" "Yeah." "You mean, you'll MAKE him stop."
And on another note, this is just too funny. I was using Stitch as a prop for a conversation and one of my students stuck him inside a roll of tape:
Whee. I should sleep.
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Imperative programming
Imperative programming gives you cancer!