My English teacher is being her ever so vindictive self (punishment, I believe, for turning in an essay written in Japanese on an English poem) and has assigned me even more Oscar Wilde to read. Along with some John Donne, for "improving my mind and soul" and she has gotten my Japanese literature teacher to assign me volumes of haiku. Again ( Read more... )

Since I still have yet to find a costume for Atobe-san's party, I have decided that instead of going straight home from lessons this evening, that I'm going shopping.

Anyone want to join me?

I am working on controlling my manners and the way I talk to people around the okiya and its esteemed patrons, and so far, it's been successful, although it means I snap more at school and there is more discernable sarcasm in the papers I hand in at school. My teachers are used to it, but it still doesn't escape unnoticed. Up until now, the only ( Read more... )

We started a section on poetry today in Japanese; I think we go over it year after year, until poetry is drilled into our heads. Or perhaps I am confusing it with training - the similarities between the two sometimes cause the lines to blur ( Read more... )

I see no point in these journals. May someone please enlighten me as to why any of our esteemed patrons would want to know about what happens during our daily lives?

On that note. Does someone want to do my history homework for me?