After two months here, I have finally found the chicken instant ramen flavour I like.

Well, the day was going very well. I had survived my second Nursing school class (the one with 45 students), and then during my attempt to find a quicker way home from the place, I backed into a low stone wall and cracked my rear headlight. *sigh* I hate how narrow the roads are in this country. And while I may be wrong, I have a feeling this will cost me some money.

Japanese class yesterday was kinda overwhelming. I had a really enjoyable trip there and back since all the travel I did during Golden Week has left me pretty confident about traveling an hour away on train. But in the class, she threw several million grammar points at us at once and even though I followed all of them (and ended up using one in class today), it was just a bit too much.

In prep for my Kindergarten class that I take over this week (and with one of the new teachers observing *eep*) I have been looking up children's songs. This mostly involved me staring at lyrics and seeing if I could remember tunes. It's surprising how much of Hush Little Baby you can remember after several years. And surprising how many weird and distinctly Victorian second verses there are to a number of songs. I'm left wondering if there's a point to teaching Japanese children songs that never made sense to me in English. Do Your Ears Hang Low? is such a weird song.

Have been writing Uric. Am not really happy with my new attempt to mingle exposition into a conversation. It seems like I'm being too obvious, but then I think people'd really hate it if I just dumped the exposition at the beginning of the section or something. Oh well, my beta will yell at me if it's bad, I'm sure *L*

Am still reading epic SW's fic atm. There's a ton of really long, epic AU's in this fandom. Me likes, even if some of them are really weird. And can I help it if I find Luke turning to the darkside really boring? What's really amusing about SW's is how people just shrug and ignore whole swaths of canon when it suits them. I can't really blame them. I tend to pretend Episode II didn't exist and I didn't have to see it two times in the theatre while plotting revenge and a mocking fic (I have the flames to prove it *eg*). And considering how much the books contradict the movies or are sometimes cooler, better thought out, etc. It's really not surprising.

After two months here, I have finally found the chicken instant ramen flavour I like.

Well, the day was going very well. I had survived my second Nursing school class (the one with 45 students), and then during my attempt to find a quicker way home from the place, I backed into a low stone wall and cracked my rear headlight. *sigh* I hate how narrow the roads are in this country. And while I may be wrong, I have a feeling this will cost me some money.

Japanese class yesterday was kinda overwhelming. I had a really enjoyable trip there and back since all the travel I did during Golden Week has left me pretty confident about traveling an hour away on train. But in the class, she threw several million grammar points at us at once and even though I followed all of them (and ended up using one in class today), it was just a bit too much.

In prep for my Kindergarten class that I take over this week (and with one of the new teachers observing *eep*) I have been looking up children's songs. This mostly involved me staring at lyrics and seeing if I could remember tunes. It's surprising how much of Hush Little Baby you can remember after several years. And surprising how many weird and distinctly Victorian second verses there are to a number of songs. I'm left wondering if there's a point to teaching Japanese children songs that never made sense to me in English. Do Your Ears Hang Low? is such a weird song.

Have been writing Uric. Am not really happy with my new attempt to mingle exposition into a conversation. It seems like I'm being too obvious, but then I think people'd really hate it if I just dumped the exposition at the beginning of the section or something. Oh well, my beta will yell at me if it's bad, I'm sure *L*

Am still reading epic SW's fic atm. There's a ton of really long, epic AU's in this fandom. Me likes, even if some of them are really weird. And can I help it if I find Luke turning to the darkside really boring? What's really amusing about SW's is how people just shrug and ignore whole swaths of canon when it suits them. I can't really blame them. I tend to pretend Episode II didn't exist and I didn't have to see it two times in the theatre while plotting revenge and a mocking fic (I have the flames to prove it *eg*). And considering how much the books contradict the movies or are sometimes cooler, better thought out, etc. It's really not surprising.