If I'm babbling, it's from lack of sleep
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spacealien_vampThe typoon was quite blustery last night, reaching its peak about 2:30am. (I know this because it's hard to sleep with the wind so loud. X_X) By morning, other than some big puffy clouds, there wasn't a trace of storm left.
I had my first class teaching Japanese to the exchange student this morning. I started out with a quick grammar quiz (in English) to get a handle on what she already knows. (After all, it's hard to teach things like "the particle o marks the direct object" if the student doesn't know what a direct object is.) Where reading Japanese is concerned, she's got a shaky grasp on the five vowel hiragana and is working her way down the list.
...Is it bad of me to want to teach her how to use a kanji dictionary in next week's lesson...?
I have a group of four really talkative girls in my speech class this semester, one of whom was in last semester's class as well. This time I'm having them choose their speech topic first, instead of leaving that until the very end, the way I did last time. They all seem to be having fun with it. Due to intervening schedule craziness, however, the next class won't be for a month.
I've been hearing a lot about gas prices being high in the US recently. Since I don't have a car here, I don't have to buy gasoline, but for comparison I checked on the prices at the gas stands on my way to the grocery store after school. They seemed to be around 124 yen/L for regular...× $1/110yen×1L/0.2641721gal = $4.27/gal. For all that my bicycle is inconvenient in a number of ways, I really do appreciate it.
I had my first class teaching Japanese to the exchange student this morning. I started out with a quick grammar quiz (in English) to get a handle on what she already knows. (After all, it's hard to teach things like "the particle o marks the direct object" if the student doesn't know what a direct object is.) Where reading Japanese is concerned, she's got a shaky grasp on the five vowel hiragana and is working her way down the list.
...Is it bad of me to want to teach her how to use a kanji dictionary in next week's lesson...?
I have a group of four really talkative girls in my speech class this semester, one of whom was in last semester's class as well. This time I'm having them choose their speech topic first, instead of leaving that until the very end, the way I did last time. They all seem to be having fun with it. Due to intervening schedule craziness, however, the next class won't be for a month.
I've been hearing a lot about gas prices being high in the US recently. Since I don't have a car here, I don't have to buy gasoline, but for comparison I checked on the prices at the gas stands on my way to the grocery store after school. They seemed to be around 124 yen/L for regular...× $1/110yen×1L/0.2641721gal = $4.27/gal. For all that my bicycle is inconvenient in a number of ways, I really do appreciate it.
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Date: 2005-09-08 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-09 01:48 pm (UTC)In our case, it's part of the sister-city program. Michigan is the sister state of Shiga Prefecture, so many of the cities in Michigan have sister cities in Shiga. (I believe Illinois is the sister state of Niigata Prefecture.)
My particular school here has an exchange relationship with Adrian, Michigan, and Kauai, Hawaii. So every year, one girl from each place can exchange with a girl from my school.
Many students in Japan want to go to the US, but it's a lot harder to find American students willing to live in Japan for a year. They're more likely to sign up for short two-week exchange programs. So any applicants for the year-long program generally have a good chance of being accepted.
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Date: 2005-09-12 08:24 am (UTC)