Genki!
Once again he stood me up, the boy I'm tutoring! Annoying kid, when he forgets to tell me that he's not coming. He did call me last week to tell me that he couldn't come that week, but he said he was coming today. (I wouldn't care if it was just this once, but happens too often. Most of the time, though, he's a very polite and ambitious young man!)
So instead, I opened the package I got in the mail today. I was surprised to get it so quickly: Genki 1 - a Japanese textbook. I've only looked a little bit in it, but it's obvious that it's so much better than my Japanese From Zero 1! It's not that it's bad, but like I said before; it's not very detailed. I can already tell that Genki is detailed! :) But I'm very glad that I've already started with JFZ because it will be helpful to already know a few things, such as hiragana, and I'll work through the last three chapters of it. :) I'm so excited excited about this class I'll begin in January!
Maybe that's incredibly stupid; I should focus on becoming a teacher because I'll study that full-time, and will I really have the time to be this excited about learning Japanese?! But...
Anyway, I applied for a new job, also tutoring French, but this time someone younger. Actually, I like doing this (and I like the money! not a tlot, but more than nothing!) and I'd be happy if I could just do things like that all the time instead of working in classroom. (Or maybe I've just read Jane Eyre too many times...)
Hm, the music I'm listennig to right now is ABBA, specifically "Does Your Mother Know". It reminds me... The last book I've read for French class is called La joyeuse complainte de l'idiot, it's about a boy at a very unconventional private school for boys who aren't considered intelligent enough for other schools. All the adults at the school are... strange, but the strangest is the principal, Madame Vivianne, who runs the school according to her whims. Long story short, the main character idolizes her and adores her and just generally thinks she's awesome and wonderful. So, I was thinking very early on: "I think I know where this is going..."
And was I rigth? Yes. In the end, when this boy is 20 years old, she seduces him (and also gives him a job at the school, which makes him happy, because he's been sad that he has to leave when he's old enough). So, yes, of course this is highly inappropriate, like all my classmates pointed out! A woman who is in charge of a person's education and general well-being should definitely not, and it's so wrong, etc, etc. Well, yeah, but it's still kind of a cliché, isn't it? When there is a book that begins with a beautiful older woman who is described in certain terms by the young protagonist, it more or less has to end like that, morally wrong or not, especially in a school setting.
Or... Where did I get that from? Hm, when I tried to think of examples, I could only think of The Graduate, and a handful of old lesbian novels about girls with teacher crushes, so I can't put this in a context by giving relevant examples. And yet I felt like I had read that story a lot more than a few times - why was that??
ETA: Okay, so maybe I'm (too) easily amused sometimes, but everytime someone writes me to say "I hate Yuuri in this fic", I laugh! Because it would be worse if they didn't even hate him. I mean, as long as they feel something for my writing... Poor little Wolfram's fangirls! *lol*
So instead, I opened the package I got in the mail today. I was surprised to get it so quickly: Genki 1 - a Japanese textbook. I've only looked a little bit in it, but it's obvious that it's so much better than my Japanese From Zero 1! It's not that it's bad, but like I said before; it's not very detailed. I can already tell that Genki is detailed! :) But I'm very glad that I've already started with JFZ because it will be helpful to already know a few things, such as hiragana, and I'll work through the last three chapters of it. :) I'm so excited excited about this class I'll begin in January!
Maybe that's incredibly stupid; I should focus on becoming a teacher because I'll study that full-time, and will I really have the time to be this excited about learning Japanese?! But...
Anyway, I applied for a new job, also tutoring French, but this time someone younger. Actually, I like doing this (and I like the money! not a tlot, but more than nothing!) and I'd be happy if I could just do things like that all the time instead of working in classroom. (Or maybe I've just read Jane Eyre too many times...)
Hm, the music I'm listennig to right now is ABBA, specifically "Does Your Mother Know". It reminds me... The last book I've read for French class is called La joyeuse complainte de l'idiot, it's about a boy at a very unconventional private school for boys who aren't considered intelligent enough for other schools. All the adults at the school are... strange, but the strangest is the principal, Madame Vivianne, who runs the school according to her whims. Long story short, the main character idolizes her and adores her and just generally thinks she's awesome and wonderful. So, I was thinking very early on: "I think I know where this is going..."
And was I rigth? Yes. In the end, when this boy is 20 years old, she seduces him (and also gives him a job at the school, which makes him happy, because he's been sad that he has to leave when he's old enough). So, yes, of course this is highly inappropriate, like all my classmates pointed out! A woman who is in charge of a person's education and general well-being should definitely not, and it's so wrong, etc, etc. Well, yeah, but it's still kind of a cliché, isn't it? When there is a book that begins with a beautiful older woman who is described in certain terms by the young protagonist, it more or less has to end like that, morally wrong or not, especially in a school setting.
Or... Where did I get that from? Hm, when I tried to think of examples, I could only think of The Graduate, and a handful of old lesbian novels about girls with teacher crushes, so I can't put this in a context by giving relevant examples. And yet I felt like I had read that story a lot more than a few times - why was that??
ETA: Okay, so maybe I'm (too) easily amused sometimes, but everytime someone writes me to say "I hate Yuuri in this fic", I laugh! Because it would be worse if they didn't even hate him. I mean, as long as they feel something for my writing... Poor little Wolfram's fangirls! *lol*