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Class

9:09am JST Tuesday 14 October 2003

Class was quite challenging for me today. Three students total: two of the students were Chinese women who know kanji, two of the students knew English

(this grammar is fucked up.)

Anyway, they were yammering in Chinese at times, and it seemed they were yammering in Japanese at times (but if so, why are they in the class?) but then other times they were making errors that I could detect.

I missed the last two classes due to fucking around with janette so I hadn't done the homework. I could barely keep up with them reading the questions, much less come up with the answers.

Is this (studying) a path I want to continue?

I keep hearing in my mind Nami saying, "please don't give up."

Da bike

12:59pm JST Tuesday 14 October 2003

I took Morisan's bike to the shop to replace the shifter that was damaged while the bike was in my care. Actually while it was in the bike parking lot, and therefore under the care of random bike citizens who didn't care for it enough to keep from breaking the plastic on the shifter thing. I'll pick it up tomorrow for 1500 yen or so.

Today

3:00pm JST Tuesday 14 October 2003

Transcribed some of the dialogue about Mt Fuji between Frank and Peter (and a bit from me). Fixed my spam-guard so anything sent to *@webquarry.com is considered spam. Going to nap now.

aren't you cold

8:57pm JST Tuesday 14 October 2003

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comments

Name: j

Email: janette *redacted*

Comment:
rob- no one who has gotten to know you, and probably a great number who have only just met you, can fail to be impressed and in some positve way, affected by you. don't you know that? you are beautiful. physically(that's impressive enough for most mortals), more importantly, spiritually(your light is very bright), emotionally(even tho you get low and frustrated, you are still a highly evolved emotional creature-you don't get stuck on stuff that is only masking the great core issues and you know how to process in a healthy way. do you know how few men can do that? how remarkable that you can and at such a young, in dog years, age?) and mentally((i'm getting confused with these parentheses)you are tackling the Big Fear, what anybody with intelligence and a yearning for wisdon and peace is working on.) fuck these parentheses. you already have made a mark in this world, rob. apparently, more than you realize or perhaps, value. that's my perspective.
i know you want to do more, be the best,famous. and it's your angst that propells you.
i just want you to feel joy and not pain. i can't help it. that is my tragic flaw.
i guess.

Name: annie

Email: misfortunatedonkey

Subject: there are no worries.

Comment:
dawg, check it-
i am working on my fourth language, italian. learning 4 languages (and i include english in this list) has taken me all of 20 years. thats 5 years per language. with all that in mind, japanese is a complex language, particularly when presented to the western mind. (romantic [french, spanish etc] and barbaric [german, dutch] languages are easier to learn for an english speaker). so, i just want to tell you to quit being so hard on yourself. you moved to japan with almost no japanese, you have lived there less than a year and you can order ice cream! that rocks my socks off! i know this is your first time being overseas and trying to learn the lauguage, and you sound frusterated with having trouble communicating, but from what ive been reading, you sound like you are right in the spot you need to be as far as language development.
i have been taking italian for 3 years now. i always wanted to die when i was working at an afterschool program in Italy and i found it difficult to communicate at a 1st grade level.
keep your goal to learning japanese for now. its a solid, good, and difficult goal. dont give up because it's harder than just showing up and suddenly knowing it. if you want to achieve your larger goals you have to do the smaller ones first. dont try crossing a bridge before youve built it. quit being so hard on yourself! and dont give up because its hard!
love
annie bee permalink

computer csr

12:28am JST Wednesday 15 October 2003

Wow.

I just sorta kinda talked with a computer to cancel my magazine subscription. It was pretty much able to understand everything I said except when I coughed or dropped the phone. Couldn't quite parse that correctly.

Two amazing things:

1) they offered me a year subscription to Popular Science for $4. Four dollars. They've got to be taking a loss on that!

2) I was talking to a computer.