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difficult japanese class

21:56 Monday 15 June 2015 JST

Japanese class was difficult for me emotionally, I guess. It was really crowded and chaotic and loud; I could barely stay at the end. I was like, [peww] headed out of there. Tsun, Lucia, and Lauren (I think his name is) were like, "so soon?" and I stood with them a bit; they spoke quietly, and it was nice. I don't know what it is about the loud ostensibly fun conversations, but I just shut down mentally and emotionally. what is that all about?

I know when I took a personality test it said I clearly need people time and alone time.

dream youth group

##07:12 Monday 16 June 2015 JST##

Playing silent football, with Nick and Laura D, they kept footballing to each other and then Nick sent it to me and expected me to send it to her, so I made a big show of finding a way to measure the distance to her: I searched in my pockets for a measuring device and found a short length of string and began to measure the distance to her, but it was more than 5 string lengths to get just to the next person so I dramatically tossed it over my shoulder and pulled out a pantomime string and measure one unit for each person away, and determined that Laura was in fact 4 people away from me. I pantomimed the fwaps to get the ball there and realized that I couldn't because 3 was less than 4, so I shrugged like "I have no idea how to do it!!"

Nick sent the football to Laura with a zoom and then a bit later a few hands went up, even though I didn't see an error. There was a new component to the game: lawyers, who would speak on behalf of their clients. The hands hadn't just gone up to tattle, but to solicit clients on whose behalf the lawyers could speak.

Then someone showed me some paper with notes written back and forth on it. I scanned through it but couldn't make much sense of it, so a person next to me (who knew the two people who had written the note) read it to me, using their Jamaican accents, which I don't know if they did naturally or dramatically. She commented the not actually made some sense if you knew the guys, but their blatant disregard for standardized grammar was a bit challenging to read.

Oh, there was one other new component of the game: message encoding. People could articulate a certain number of fwaps to be applied from the position of the person to whom they next passed the football by any other means. It was essentially moving the football twice, and could be a way to pass messages between universes, I realized.

early to class

18:08 Monday 15 June 2015 JST

I came early to Japanese class and am trying not to bug 和田さん too much by studying quietly.

又日本語を勉強しました

18:09 Monday 15 June 2015 JST

There are probably errors in the Japanese notes below!

I'm stuying the same words again; this time from my Macbook.

1. 満足　まんぞく　satisfactory
2. 適当　てきとう　appropriate
3. 嫌い　きらい hate
4. 痛い　いたい painful
5. 偉い　えらい great
6. 狛江市　こまえし　
7. 長与町　ながよちょう　
8. 昭島市　あきしまし
9. 丁寧　

日本語を勉強しました

14:45 Monday 15 June 2015 JST

There are probably errors in the Japanese notes below!

1. 軽い　かるい light weight
2. 欲しい ほしい want
3. appropriate てきとう
4. 賑やか にぎやか Bustling
5. 自由 じゆう Freedom, Free
6. 満足 まんぞく satisfactory
7. 嫌い きらい Hate
8. 偉い えらい Great
9. 痛い いたい Painful
10. 著しい いちじるしい Remarkable
11. 駄目 だめ No Good, Useless
12. Steep 険しい けわしい
13. 狛江市 こまえし

and a lot more but it's hard to cut and paste Japanese from Anki to here.