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kids classes a.k.a. o o

##10:58 Wednesday 05 November 2014 JST##

Wow. Well, I survived the first day teaching a group of kids, they seemed to have fun overall, and there was some semblence of learning involved.

To be more specific, I just "taught" two classes of around 20 kids each, the first group being a bit younger than the second; I'd guess 5 and 6 years old, but I heard they were 4 and 5 years old respectively.

I know the second class had 21 kids, because we counted everyone twice.

Yuuji (from JB, who introduced me to this school) and I agreed the second class was better; I did the vocabulary game in a big circle instead of two lines, and I had them not touch the cards, but just point to the requested card.

Thanks to Mutsumi's friend Bruno, I had one song ready, to the tune of Frère Jacques:

walking walking
walking walking
hop hop hop
hop hop hop
running running running
running running running
now we stop
now we stop

We did some variants of that (flying, swimming, driving, riding bicycle, walking backwards), usually not to the tune of anything but pandemonium. :-)

pre pre release of hakyll journal

##20:12 Wednesday 05 November 2014 JST##

I'm so lucky to have an awesome programmer friend like Travis. :-)

Over the past few days we have been emailing back and forth, mostly with me going "uh huh" "yeah" "that's right" "great!" as he explains the intricacies of the best way to create a haskell library.

I've been studying Learn You a Haskell and considering buying Graham Hutton's book, and am excited to have my static journal back, very excited to have Travis making a kick-ass library to seamlessly(?) connect with Hakyll to make it journalistic... I'm certain that some of the code he writes will end up in the main Hakyll library.

I've been watching my new/old/new hakyll-journal repository, and just happened to catch the first little bit, 3 minutes after he committed it.

started wall of sand in minecraft

##19:28 Wednesday 05 November 2014 JST##

Back when Minefold was in business, I paid them to host a private world for me. They went out of business and I downloaded the world, but couldn't get it working on my local machine until recently.

Since then, I built a relatively long minecart track in the nether put a large portal at the end of it. Delightfully, the overworld portal happened to be quite close to a desert. I moved the overworld portal to the desert and started to build a big pile of sand for Fred and I to use in making glass if we ever end up playing together in this world.

I decided it would be cool/appropriate to make a pyramid of sand, so I started doing that.

Then I realized I should bury something under the pyramid, so I dug up the pyramid, built a little house, and rebuilt the pyramid, thoroughly burying the house. The house is actually connected via a sub-surface tunnel, which is accessible by diving into a deep lake nearby.

That was all maybe a month ago.

Today I realized it might be cool to make a huge wall of sand. So I've started a wall which is probably about 200 blocks tall.