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AM tired

8:22am JST Thursday 17 April 2003

Am I tired? Or is this what Annie was telling me about: an excuse my body is trying to create to keep me from embracing the world around me?

Today at 10am, I'm meeting a woman named Koyuko (I think) who learned that I want to take private Japanese lessons. I'll get up now and zip over to the International Lounge and practice / write flash cards before we meet.

Blessed

11:40am JST Thursday 17 April 2003

Oh my gosh. So amazing. So incredible. I'm so blessed.

I met with Koko (short for Kayoko) this morning; she will be my personal tutor on Wednesdays. I'll teach her English and she'll teach me Japanese.

I was more than willing to pay 1000 yen per lesson, but she was like "no no no no" and asked that I pay 100 yen per lesson just to pay for photocopying materials.

Her mom was there (chaperoning the first meeting?) and when Koko asked if I had any problems with my Japanese life, I was all, "um, I wonder how I can buy a used bike," she yammered with her mom for a second and then ... you guessed it, "you can use our bike."

And I'm like, "shit, dawg, I don't want to take your family's bike!" or something like that and they explained that they bought it for mom to use, but it's too big and has been wasting away in the garage; they don't even know if the tires have air.

WHOOHOOOOOO!!

So Koko is going to bring it next week. I'll meet with her on Wednesday at 10am, and I assume all subsequent Wednesdays until further notice. Yahoooo!!!!!!

She went through the flash cards I had made, correcting a few. She showed me the kanji of the various trains on the Toyoku line (my local line (and hers too)). Told me that the kanji for different lines may be different (which could explain why the shit seems so confusing!)