November 18-24 (Mon-Sun) - Calm before the storm?

Monday: I had koto class. On my way, I saw my first wild boar.
*sad face*

Tuesday: The suzuki is big and fluffy now.

Classes exhausted me.

Wednesday: Hugh and I had extra classes at Okabo. At least it’s fun. With the kindergarten kids we made an autumn tree. (Well, Hugh made it, and the kids colored leaves.)

Then I was late to my afternoon elementary school, AND I mistook which lesson it was, which was bad enough — and the teacher wasn’t there. So the first class was a huge mess... but in the 10 minutes to the next one I fixed it and it went well. The end.

Thursday: Was ok.
Friday: Miyazaki classes were good. Actually they went quite well. People from a junior high board or something came to watch the 6th-grade class and after the class the man spoke to me. He said (in English) he was surprised we had an actual class, as he thought the English classes were games and chants and stuff. So that was nice.

Saturday: A day off! A 3-day weekend! Wow!
Yoga, food, studying. Then we missed the train to Fukui to see Hugh’s band perform. We hung out until late, watched Dexter at Kaori’s.

Sunday: Yoga and studying. Rented 2 discs (TV series discs have only 2 episodes)... and 1 was one we’d seen before. Oops... so we called it an early night... and I spent the next 5 hours writing. I began to see hope for Nanowrimo.

Recent Japanese:
namako (海鼠) = sea cucumber; lit. sea mouse.
seiuchi / kaozou (海象) = walrus; lit. sea elephant.
tatsu no otoshi ko (竜の落とし子) = seahorse; lit. fallen child of dragons.
uni (雲丹) = sea urchin; lit. sea chestnut.
(In addition, dolphin is ‘sea pig’, seal is ‘sea leopard’, hippo is ‘water horse’.)
boribori = munching; crunchy
sakusaku = crisp, flaky
haku (吐く) = to vomit; or, less strongly, you can say ‘modosu’ which means ‘to return’.
eiyou (栄養) = nutrition
uttoushii (鬱陶しい) = gloomy, depressing, irritating
fukouhei (不公平) = unfair
yamitsuki (病み付き) = get hooked on, addicted to e.g. cookies.
gomakasu (誤摩化す) = to deceive
dogeza (土下座) = to kowtow; lit. down on the ground.