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feeling: ^^
listening to: Cowboy Bebop - Pushing the Sky
~completed ca. 12:50 a.m.~
Today was a good day.
This morning we had 'fun day' in Japanese class, which we do pretty much every quarter when the last day rolls around... for the first hour we played Pictionary but substituted the regular categories and stuff with things we've learned throughout the quarter, and after that Terashima-sensei gave us all Japanese goodies. :3 First she had a can of Pocari Sweat, a Japanese energy-type drink that's renowned even in America for its weird name... and she had a little packet of Pocari Sweat powder mix, which I ended up with first, but I gave it to a guy who'd had the stuff many times before and was very fond of it... I'd have liked to keep it, but hey, I'm nice. :P She also had Chocolate Mousse Pocky, LOOK candy (little chocolates with nifty fluffy/jelly-ey fruity fillings), and a candy called Collon which reaffirmed to all who tried it that when it comes to Japanese candy, weird name = AWESOME taste. Collon is very, very, very good. *want* Anyhow... um, then we watched a couple episodes of some old family-oriented animes, Chibi Maruko-chan and Sazae-san. Also this morning Sensei was presented with the flower bouquet everyone in our class pitched in for since she's been our teacher ALL year (which is rare in college) and everyone loves her (even rarer). She was all surprised and such... it was cute. x)
Now, some of you may remember when I posted here this time last year about the East Asian Language Fest, where I was in the interpretation shootout and won, and hung out with Kashiwagi-sensei, the most adorable person I've ever met and one of my all-time favorite teachers, etc etc. If you don't remember and want to have some idea of what the rest of this blog is talking about, click here and scroll down to find the post.
Ok... so I got there and sat down, then talked to Niimi-sensei, one of my TAs from winter quarter, for a bit. Then Kashiwagi-sensei found me and said hi to me and stuff... then I watched as the first-year and second-year students of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean did the interpretation shootout... it was so funny watching the first-year folks stumble around and have no clue what they were doing >:3 Then I joined the other third-year Jappie students for our turn at the shootout... which, by the way, we won. We're still undefeated~ :D So, then I stood along the wall with Kashiwagi-sensei to watch the fourth-year students do the shootout, then another guy from my class, Evan, decided to do the same (he was the one I gave the Pocari Sweat mix too, by the way.) I haven't really talked to him much before, but we talked and hung out a lot at the fest... first with Kashiwagi sensei, talking and laughing with her and squeeing behind her back about how adorable she is... I'm serious! Oh, man, at one point one of her students was bringing a photo to show her, and I swear she was bouncing up and down like she'd just won the lottery X3 And shortly after that, Evan noticed her watch, poked it, and said "Kirei!" ("Pretty!"), to which she replied by giving him this goofy look, doing some kind of goofy bringing-attention-to-her-face hand gesture, and saying in this almost mischievous little voice, "Watashi? Watashi?" ("Me? Me?") We were just... rolling :P Yeah... so me and Evan were talking about how we wished we were really fluent in Japanese just so we could hang around and talk with her without feeling like idiots. *lol*
So, then they finally announced that they were ready for the pizza party to begin, and Kashiwagi-sensei told me and Evan to go on ahead of her for pizza... so we did, then we talked with Terashima-sensei a bit, then to Iwami-sensei, our main instructor all last year. It was funny... last year a lot of her students didn't care much for her, and I never really understood why. Evan thought the same thing. But talking to her today... I dunno, she was just so easy to converse with. She was saying how she always ended up teaching first-year students even though she didn't really like it. For one, she not only has to teach Japanese, but she also has to teach people how to learn Japanese, which is a whole different animal... and for two, there are always a vast number of first-year students who don't take the class seriously at all, which is a pain. I really came to understand a lot about her as a teacher today, and I think she'll be a lot more... I dunno, approachable to me from now on. Which is cool.
After a while Iwami-sensei excused herself to get more beverageness, and then Evan decided to do the same - and this is interesting - before just taking off he looked at me and said "I don't want to leave you" (in the sense of leaving one behind, for example, in the middle of a conversation... don't read too much into that :p). Heh, I dunno... that just sort of amused me, since we hadn't really talked much before at all. He's a nice guy. I'll miss him too when he goes to Japan this fall and won't come back til after I graduate.
End tangent... yeah, so many cool people are leaving, it's sad. Kashiwagi-sensei told us she's graduating at the end of summer *whimper*, Evan's off to Japan for most of a year, Niimi-sensei and Katagiri-sensei (another one from last year) are both graduating before next year too...dah, so sad~ I wanted to find Kashiwagi-sensei again after we talked to everyone else for a while, but somewhere in finding pizza and our chats with Iwami-sensei she took off... T_T I was gonna ask her to come back to the Lang Fest again next year if she has time, since she said she hopes to find a job in Columbus... *sigh*
So... that was pretty much it. Me and Evan left when we were done talking to teachers and walked toward home together for a bit, since he lives not far from my dorm. I'll miss him too. I wish we'd gotten to know each other better before today... we seemed to have quite a bit in common. Our taste in Japanese teachers is the same, anyway. :P
(And I know a certain reader of mine is now conjuring up certain little images in her head relating to the concept of my... sentiments... toward Evan as expressed above. Stoppit, you. You're reading into things too much again XP)
That's about it. Happy and sad. I'm dead tired now. Off to bed with me.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 6/06/2003 09:16:00 PM
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