I love colors!
Jan. 17th, 2005 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spacealien_vampThe green pen I've been using to write comments on student papers is starting to get low on ink, so yesterday I decided to buy a new one. The bad news is, at the place I went shopping, the only pens they sold individually were black, blue, or red. The good news is, they had a set of ten colored fine-tipped pens in a plastic case, so I bought the whole set. Pretty colors... And they make nice, skinny lines, so I can scrunch the comments in between the students' lines without the ink blurring.
I didn't have much spare time today because a grading assignment was sprung on me, but in the few minutes at the beginning of the day before that happened, I started trying out the cro-tat set I had brought along with me, using some spare yarn leftover from the snowpeople. It's trickier than plain crochet, that's for certain. But the end result should look cute. If I do it right.
When I was leaving at the end of the day, the sun was just setting, and there were huge pink clouds all over the sky. I took a picture of this one from the hallway/balcony right outside the faculty room. The left side of the picture shows the hallways for the student classrooms (one grade per floor). The classrooms where I teach are the third (language lab) and fourth (seminar room) floors of the wing in the center of the picture. Beneath the cloud, you can kind of see the misty snow-covered mountains in the distance, also reflecting the pink light.
Colors are just awesome.
I did have one weird interchange with one of my team teachers. I still have no clue what it was about.
Teacher: I hear when you arrived at the airport, you smelled the takuan.
Me: ...?
Teacher: Takuan, Japanese pickles.
Me: ...?
Teacher: The moment you arrived in Japan, you could smell it.
Me: ...? Um...no?
Teacher: That's what I heard.
I didn't have much spare time today because a grading assignment was sprung on me, but in the few minutes at the beginning of the day before that happened, I started trying out the cro-tat set I had brought along with me, using some spare yarn leftover from the snowpeople. It's trickier than plain crochet, that's for certain. But the end result should look cute. If I do it right.
When I was leaving at the end of the day, the sun was just setting, and there were huge pink clouds all over the sky. I took a picture of this one from the hallway/balcony right outside the faculty room. The left side of the picture shows the hallways for the student classrooms (one grade per floor). The classrooms where I teach are the third (language lab) and fourth (seminar room) floors of the wing in the center of the picture. Beneath the cloud, you can kind of see the misty snow-covered mountains in the distance, also reflecting the pink light. Colors are just awesome.
I did have one weird interchange with one of my team teachers. I still have no clue what it was about.
Teacher: I hear when you arrived at the airport, you smelled the takuan.
Me: ...?
Teacher: Takuan, Japanese pickles.
Me: ...?
Teacher: The moment you arrived in Japan, you could smell it.
Me: ...? Um...no?
Teacher: That's what I heard.
