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The superintendant sent me another bag of vegetables today. Luckily it's a small one. I may actually be able to finish it.
In one of my classes this morning, the students were assigned to write a letter to an (imaginary) person and explain either their family, school, city, or some aspect of Japanese culture.
Student: Japan has four seasons. Does that count as culture?
Me: ^_^;
Yes, they're REALLY proud of the four seasons here. (I suggested she write about what Japanese people DO during one of the seasons, like flower-viewing.)
I also found out that two of my team teachers will be gone this Friday, so that means two solo lessons. But I'm going to some international exchange ceremony thing next Friday, so I guess we're even.
Update: While I was going to the post office to mail
mangaroo's
present (a manga cover)...
I decided to take pictures of some of the flowers along the way for potential use as embroidery designs.
I wound up taking so many that I thought it would be worth putting them all together in a collage and sharing.

In one of my classes this morning, the students were assigned to write a letter to an (imaginary) person and explain either their family, school, city, or some aspect of Japanese culture.
Student: Japan has four seasons. Does that count as culture?
Me: ^_^;
Yes, they're REALLY proud of the four seasons here. (I suggested she write about what Japanese people DO during one of the seasons, like flower-viewing.)
I also found out that two of my team teachers will be gone this Friday, so that means two solo lessons. But I'm going to some international exchange ceremony thing next Friday, so I guess we're even.
Update: While I was going to the post office to mail
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I decided to take pictures of some of the flowers along the way for potential use as embroidery designs.
I wound up taking so many that I thought it would be worth putting them all together in a collage and sharing.

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Date: 2005-05-09 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-10 01:11 am (UTC)I will...there just aren't any around the neighborhood for me to take pictures of.
Oddly, there are peacocks, but no bunnies.
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Date: 2005-05-10 05:57 am (UTC)Of course, if you want a real bunny picture, there's always google.
*gets distracted by bunny pictures*
Uh...yeah. Bunnies. Or...something.
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Date: 2005-05-10 08:29 am (UTC)I wonder if the bunnies will come back now that Ptolemy will have to stay inside all summer?
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Date: 2005-05-10 05:33 pm (UTC)I wonder if the bunnies will come back now that Ptolemy will have to stay inside all summer?
Do you have a vegetable garden?
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Date: 2005-05-10 06:19 pm (UTC)Yeah, the one thing I will NOT miss now that I'm keeping Ptolemy in is the fresh rodent corpses on the bathroom mat in the morning. He was always so polite about offering to share.
I did one year, but lately it's been hard because I haven't been organized enough to get the patch cleared and planted before June, and mid-June is really too late to be starting a garden. I might do herbs this year, they don't care how many months of growing time they get.
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Date: 2005-05-11 03:08 am (UTC)He was always so polite about offering to share.
Hee! It's so sweet, the way cats bring their gory little offerings.
Wednesday gives the best offerings, though. Since she doesn't have any real prey to bring us, she brings us her toys instead. Her favorite thing is to drag her stick (you know, the kind with a string tied on) around at night. If it's upstairs, she'll drag it down, and if it's downstairs, she'll drag it up. And she cries the whole time. (LOOK WHAT I DID! AREN'T YOU PROUD OF ME??) It's too adorable.
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Date: 2005-05-11 06:12 am (UTC)Ptolemy used to do that... he's gotten too
fat and lazyadult and sophisticated to do it now. But he does sometimes still bring his toys to my bed, or to the food bowl. What, is nylon fluff going to become more edible if you put it in a bowl?He only ever did the proud crying for real prey, though. >.< That was how I knew to watch my step in the morning.
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Date: 2005-05-12 05:49 pm (UTC)(=^.^=)
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Date: 2005-05-10 01:11 pm (UTC)They would...but I'm trying to cut down on the amount of reference material I lug back and forth to school with me. So I'm practicing first on things that I can have snapshots of on my keitai, since I take that with me anyway.
Downloading a bunch of pictures onto my laptop for reference is another option, but if I were to take my laptop to school it would dominate my desk and leave me no room to draw, so I'm waiting for the weekend to do that.
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Date: 2005-05-10 08:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-10 01:14 pm (UTC)I definitely want to try making patterns from characters. ...I suppose this means I will have to buy more volumes, since my current supply of scanables is quite limited.