Comments | mizuno_caitlin: Mari doesn't know how to make okonomiyaki.

mizuno_caitlin

Mari doesn't know how to make okonomiyaki.

Sep 11, 2010 01:14

Today was my last day this month at this middle school. I don't know why I work there so little this month. Whatever. I had two free periods in the teacher room to entertain myself. When I wasn't daydreaming like a teenager, I was mentally mocking the new versions of the supplement textbook like a teenager. Check this beautiful, fantastic, flawless ( Read more... )

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frontyardninja September 10 2010, 16:30:20 UTC

I a computer once. Is that bad?

mizuno_caitlin September 10 2010, 16:32:48 UTC

Terrible! Zero points! Bring this paper home and have your mother sign it. *nods*

frontyardninja September 10 2010, 16:42:26 UTC

Until 6th grade, mom signed all my permission slips/notes/excuses. Then I figured out her signature and helpfully did it for her. I like to think I was saving her time.

mizuno_caitlin September 10 2010, 16:43:03 UTC

A truly kind gesture, that. What a thoughtful child!

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karasuma_akane September 11 2010, 02:59:00 UTC

"I almost fried a computer once." :D?

PS - OR! My alternate that a dude could say: "I jizzed upon a computer once." D: ... Lol

mizuno_caitlin September 12 2010, 07:30:35 UTC

Your D: face makes it the best.

karasuma_akane September 13 2010, 00:45:16 UTC

x3 Woot~

tsukikage85 September 11 2010, 04:58:08 UTC

Ni-neeeeen! (Sorry, I had to.)

You know, I've gotta love how American foreign language textbooks try to focus on the culture of the coutntries where they speak the language being, but in Japan the textbook is all about okonomiyaki and playing the koto. It also makes me think of how language immersion camps in the U.S. try to have ethnic food, but the one English language immersion camp I went to was 90% washoku.

mizuno_caitlin September 12 2010, 07:36:13 UTC

They include the oddest cultural notes. Like, lots of stuff about India and China. They try to pass off English class as "World Language Class".

Also, yes. The language camp I worked at two weeks ago was 100% washoku. WTF. It was more Japanese food than I'd had in a while.

kokoronomelody September 13 2010, 11:21:09 UTC

Washoku is the best!

kokoronomelody September 13 2010, 07:57:26 UTC

What's the answer for the tennis one? I can't image two words going in that space.

mizuno_caitlin September 13 2010, 08:01:56 UTC

"We have played tennis for three years."

It sorta says it underneath in Japanese?

kokoronomelody September 13 2010, 11:20:01 UTC

I personally would not use "have." LoL

mizuno_caitlin September 13 2010, 11:21:14 UTC

They teach all sorts of grammar I don't use, either, in this book. *sigh*

saa_ai September 14 2010, 21:31:28 UTC

I've been meaning to LJ comment for weeks now, but lack of internet at home and being a lazy-no-good-bum/friend has detered me. I'm so glad to hear that you're loving your life in Japan and would love to swap Engrish stories with you. Any good way in particular to track you down for a chat or letter/email?

mizuno_caitlin September 15 2010, 09:11:14 UTC

What! No! I've been wondering where you've gone off to and how you've been, but hell. Life happens. Dying to hear how things went after you made the location change.

Well, email always works. You know my address, still, right? Just pound out a long one and I can reply whenever. Phone calls are harder to time. Some days I have day work in the public schools, some days (in the near future) I'll be in the conversation school at night, and (somehow wonder of wonders) there is a guy in my life these days. In other words: My schedule is all over the place. Skype's always good? IDK.