Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Always! What a silly name!

My day has been lacklustre; it is slightly depressing. I did manage to do ten more days in my scrapbook, though this only amounted to one half-page entry. I am up to November 11th now: such a long way to go. I should really have stayed on top of it better.

I went shopping for a little lunch: I bought tuna, and more cheese and bread. I watched anime over pizza, and a camembert and tuna melt. Yummy! Moreover, I am near the end of the series now, which means things are becoming a lot more intense and exciting. I now have the urge to sit down and watch all the rest of the episodes at once. There are at most only six more to go, though. After that, I have 50 episodes each of another two anime to watch.

I went in to Uni in the afternoon with Ciarán, where we pottered about in the office for an hour. I emailed a few people before going to Linden Hall. We played a board game, that Ciarán has developed, with the kids, who were pretty much well behaved. We had Yuu (the only boy today), along with Keely, Momoko, Yuuki and her twin Mizuki, Misato, Marika, Rihou, Konatsu, and Itsumo (which means “always” in Japanese… why?). Afterwards, Yuu made another 笹舟 (sasabune - toy bamboo-leaf boat), but then destroyed it.

We came back, and I ate dinner, before running off to cover for Binks. There were five of them today, all with one thing about what they did since last we met, and all with essays to be marked. Since we were running out of time, it was always going to happen that the essay-writing standard would reduce as we went along. I gave them half an hour free in the end, though I do not really mind. It only means that they paid me my usual rate per hour. They wrote about the growing gap between rich and poor in Japan; spring; cherry blossoms; the World Baseball Classic; and flying business class for the first time. They are an intelligent bunch, though three of them (the three from last time) are much older. Another was 33, had not attended since November, but had had a son in January.

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