I now have 164 slides in the powerpoint presentation I'm making for my elementary school's English Recital. I still have at least 23 new slides to create, 30 pictures to add in, and who knows how much text to fix. And I still have a ton of work to do on my talks for English School's Bible Camp and on my sermon for the Japanese church. *sigh*

...my glasses decided to break this morning as I was getting ready. Thankfully, I'm not actually upset about this or in a panic as I've been expecting this to happen for weeks (actually, ever since I got hit in the face with the floor waxer cord in March). Thankfully, the break's on my ear piece, so it's currently taped and resting carefully on my ( Read more... )

It amuses me that in a drawing assignment focusing on rainbows, one of my first graders was able to work in an UFO.

When asked, "What's your favorite dessert?":

"I don't eat black sunshine."

I have no idea where that came from.

Also, is it bad that I'm now starting to recognize my students from behind by their mullets?

Today I ate lunch with the 6th graders, and that was highly entertaining. As soon as I had sat down, one of the girls started grilling me about who my favorite Arashi member was. Good times ( Read more... )

So, a couple days ago, meganbmoore posted this WTF link concerning a Texas lawmaker wanting Asians to change their names to something that Americans can more easily pronounce: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/brown-asian-names/

With that in mind, I started giggling today ( Read more... )

Let me show you my geekiness. I am now playing a Japanese game called Shiritori with one of my fellow missionaries. (Yes, aflaweddesign, the game played in Voice. Here's a good description of it (taken from the lj of the people who subbed Voice):

Japanese is comprised of mora, which are sound units that are either one vowel sound (a, i, u, e, o) or a consonant/ ( Read more... )

Graduation went well. It was a nice ceremony, and the party afterwards was a lot of fun, but now I'm feeling sad. I'm off to work off my sadness/antisocialness by watching my crackish dramas while my parents nap.

My parents have been enjoying Japan so far. My mother preached at the children's church this morning, and that went well. They also enjoyed the udon we had for lunch. After watching the Gospel Hula practice, we headed to the pastor's house to spend the afternoon and eat supper, which was a delicious meal of curry rice and various types of salad ( Read more... )

"I'm going to have hair as long as sensei's." ~as said by a 2nd grade boy. Seeing as my hair is past my rear, I wish him all the best in reaching that goal. :P