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feeling: warm and happy and slightly sad ;_;
listening to: Ray Stevens - Joggin'
*updated at 10:40-ish Friday night*
Today the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature (i.e. Japanese, Chinese, and Korean) had a Language Festival that I went to. It was fun. ^^ I got there kinda early and found a seat on the side of the room that was less filled up, and Kashiwagi-sensei, my favorite teacher, came over and sat by me... we chatted in Japanese and stuff... :p Yeah, I need all the practice I can get, and it is her native language, but still... I suck. :3 Anywho, first there were a bunch of little skits done in Japanese by the upper level Japanese students, which were nifty... lol, this one was a gameshow spoof, and the host guy said "You have one minute to answer the question", and riiight after he said that the class bell, on its preset timer, went off. It was great timing. (this fest was in a lecture hall btw.) Me and Sensei laughed and such XD Anywho, so then after the skits there was a mini, English-language Noh play, which was interesting.. then began the Interpretation Shootout, in which 103-level students of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese (that's me! wai~) interpret improvised, simple conversations between two speakers of two different languages. Like, ok... first was Japanese vs. Chinese... so the two main speakers were native speakers of either Japanese or Chinese, so they spoke in their native languages, while Jap 103 students translated the Japanese into English, which the Chinese 103 student then translated to the Chinese native speaker, and the conversation went on like that. Each language had a team of interpreting students, and each student, when it was his/her turn, translated one sentence to English and one to Japanese and then passed the mic to the next teammate. Sooo, anyway... our Jap teachers have been trying for weeks to get people in my 103 class to volunteer to do this, and of course I never did :P... but today when they were about to start, the Japanese team was pathetically small, so Kashiwagi-sensei cajoled me into participating. So I did. I just can't turn her down. She's too adorable. XP So, the thing starts... we finish the Jap/Chinese round, then the Jap/Korean round, then they start the Chinese/Korean round. In the middle of that Kashiwagi-sensei walked out to get a drink, but she didn't come back for a while... also the fest was now into the mostly Chinese/Korean parts, which I don't understand... so I decided to leave too. But just as I was walking out, she was walking in. And of course she convinced me to come back later if I coupd, cause they had yet to announce the winners of the interpretation shootouts, and there was supposed to be a banquet at the end... so yeah. I came here and did some packing and stuff, emailed my parents about going home tonight, then went back around 20 minutes later. There was still some Chinese stuff going on, so I kinda stood by the wall and watched the last couple skits, since I couldn't find a clear path to where Kashiwagi-tachi (meaning her, the other teachers, and some other students from the shootout we'd done) were sitting. Then they did a little farewell thing for Kuwai-sensei, who never taught any of my classes but is vvery well liked and kawaii, cause she's going to Japan for a year. Then, finally, they announced the winners of the interpretation shootouts. The Japanese team won both of the two rounds it was in. Go us! >:D So we all get 8 extra credit points and free T-shirts cause of that XD Aaaand then comes the banquet: none other than pizza and pop. Fine East Asian dining. XD That was the funnest part: me, Angles-sensei, Kashiwagi-sensei, and a couple other students I don't know too well were sitting around talking while we ate... and after we ate... but yeah. First we talked about bettas (like Mitsu-chan), then about Whose Line, then about RPGs and cosplay and stuff... and some other stuff too... but I thought it was amazing that this 4-way conversation turned toward those subjects, which happen to be some of my favorites - and it wasn't even me that brought them up. XD heehee, it was funny hearing them try to explain to Kashiwagi-sensei the differences between cute, sexy, pretty and gorgeous >u< Yeah... anywhooo... so we stood there talking for, um... an hour or something... then helped move some desks back where they were supposed to be, then left together... they all kept walking and talking in the same direction, and dangit, I had to break away at the first crosswalk ;_; oh well~
Yes... a fun occasion. Have I mentioned Kashiwagi-sensei is adorable? >w< ACK... I just realized... she's petite, perky, happy, bubbly, cute, 26 but looks about 17... she would make an uber-kawaii anime character XDDD *new inspiration* No, seriously... during the interpretation shootouts today, she stood off to the side with some other teachers, and whevener we translated something right, she would literally bounce up and down clapping and high-fiving us and stuff~ *giggle* And I may never forget the one time in one class when she was trying to physically act out some little action or something, and she accidentally kicked the wall and like, grabbed her foot and made this kawaii half "ow", half "yah!" noise and then went on as if nothing happened, smiling all the while... or when she demonstrated masculinity by doing the muscle-pumping thing and demonstrated femininity by doing this hilarious little giggly-grinning, half-curtseying, sticking-the-butt-out-to-one-side thing that was... funny as heck XD
Sigh... I'm gonna miss her and Angles-sensei... likely I won't ever be in any of their classes again T_T nooooo *whimper* Oh, another thing that happened today... Kashiwagi-sensei taught Jap this morning (that's how I remembered it kaha) and she was showing my my grade breakdown on my oral final, and the grade looked exactly like this:
18/20?
...question mark and all. o_O;; We had a good confused chuckle over that heheh... um... 18/20 is 90%... hey, better than my midterm ^o^ but I can't help but wonder how the question mark will factor in XD;;;
And now for some of those quiz thingies cause it's been too long >u<
I am
protecting the wildlife has been my sole
mission in my life. i possess a true motherly
gentleness, i love to bath in the forest, and behind
all my toughnesses, i'm actually a shy
and extremely polite girl. take Which Tekken Character Are You test!
Find out which Xena girl you are.
unfortunately... I know what they mean by "animal lover" >o<;; she had a centaur's baby >_>;;;; but that doesn't count and she still kicks butt! >:P
Find out which Xena guy you are.
Yay quizzes~ uhh... I kinda overloaded on the smileys in this post, didn't I? oh well XD
XD XD XD :P :3 >:D >u<
so there!
And now my daddy is here to take me home so I am done ^__^v
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 6/07/2002 08:26:00 PM
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