the other side of my brain
I will remember today as a pretty good day. If I am still on the starting rim of the hump towards fluency (and, barring that, at least being able to have some semblance of a conversation), and I have no doubts that I am, at least I am now earnestly engaged in the attempt to move upwards. My two conversation partners are two freshman japanese girls. I suspect that in all of the organizations here the brunt of the workload gets loaded onto the freshman, but though we were all nervous, the conversation was certainly not impeded by a few years' age difference. One of them even baked us tiny apple pies! I told them the truth - I wake up every day trying to think as if I had been born here, but I'm still not really sure what that entails. My moments of embarassment were certainly not rare, but we all laughed a good bit too. This is much better than anything french class ever threw at me; that is for sure.
A few good yarns were told today too - tales of teacher student fantasies nearly realized in the Roppongi art gallery; the startling realization that yet another thai kid had joined our grammar class; and the lines exchanged between my friends and family during my first ever use of skype with my video camera actually working.
It was also unusually cool in Tokyo today too, which I relished. Even with the cooler temperature the humidity is still very high, and I hear that after the rainy season it ratchets up to "80 or 90%." Ok. Just kill me now.
A few good yarns were told today too - tales of teacher student fantasies nearly realized in the Roppongi art gallery; the startling realization that yet another thai kid had joined our grammar class; and the lines exchanged between my friends and family during my first ever use of skype with my video camera actually working.
It was also unusually cool in Tokyo today too, which I relished. Even with the cooler temperature the humidity is still very high, and I hear that after the rainy season it ratchets up to "80 or 90%." Ok. Just kill me now.