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Hey, do any of my friends in Tokyo have a Costco membership (mine lapsed), or know somewhere else that I can get American laundry detergent? I'm running out of my big bottle that I brought over here in March, and I really don't want to go back to using crappy Japanese detergent that doesn't get my clothes clean.
Tonight after work I went to the "view travel plaza" thingy in Akabane station and with the help of a travel agent, made my arrangements to go to Hiroshima this weekend. Whew. So I have a train ticket to go down on Saturday afternoon, a reservation at a business hotel near the station for Saturday night, a train ticket home for Sunday evening, and baseball tickets to Saturday night and Sunday afternoon's baseball games at the new Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima, as the Fighters take on the Carp for their last series of interleague. (I had the baseball tickets a few weeks ago, but not the travel tickets.) I'm totally psyched! I'm even kind of just looking forward to chilling out on a N700 shinkansen for a few hours. I'm weird that way.
Oh, at school I invented a new board game for my first-years. It's the "Have Like Play" game:
The hard part was really making the cards, or more like, finding clip art for various words/things... but yeah, so I'm hoping to get a lot of mileage out of this one, because we can use it for teaching "I like chocolate / I have a cat / I play tennis" as well as "I don't like English / I don't have an eraser / I don't play baseball" as well as "Do you like baseball? / Do you have a book? / Do you play the piano?"
Tomorrow will be the playtest, by which I mean I'm going to bring it to 1-3 Advanced and see how they deal with it to benchmark a guess for how other classes will go. They're the most open-minded and willing-to-do-crazy-stuff class I have of the first-years, so if it bombs, or if it's wildly successful, either way they'll probably have a good time.
Is 2009 really already almost halfway over? That's freaking insane, dude.
Tonight after work I went to the "view travel plaza" thingy in Akabane station and with the help of a travel agent, made my arrangements to go to Hiroshima this weekend. Whew. So I have a train ticket to go down on Saturday afternoon, a reservation at a business hotel near the station for Saturday night, a train ticket home for Sunday evening, and baseball tickets to Saturday night and Sunday afternoon's baseball games at the new Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima, as the Fighters take on the Carp for their last series of interleague. (I had the baseball tickets a few weeks ago, but not the travel tickets.) I'm totally psyched! I'm even kind of just looking forward to chilling out on a N700 shinkansen for a few hours. I'm weird that way.
Oh, at school I invented a new board game for my first-years. It's the "Have Like Play" game:
The hard part was really making the cards, or more like, finding clip art for various words/things... but yeah, so I'm hoping to get a lot of mileage out of this one, because we can use it for teaching "I like chocolate / I have a cat / I play tennis" as well as "I don't like English / I don't have an eraser / I don't play baseball" as well as "Do you like baseball? / Do you have a book? / Do you play the piano?"
Tomorrow will be the playtest, by which I mean I'm going to bring it to 1-3 Advanced and see how they deal with it to benchmark a guess for how other classes will go. They're the most open-minded and willing-to-do-crazy-stuff class I have of the first-years, so if it bombs, or if it's wildly successful, either way they'll probably have a good time.
Is 2009 really already almost halfway over? That's freaking insane, dude.
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