The Axeman Returns

It was a funny night last night, as, at about 1am, some strange alarm starting going off outside. It sounded like an air-raid siren and was slightly worrying. After a while, a whole entourage of police cars and ambulances went by, sirens wailing. I have no idea what was going on, but it kept me awake for a while. I thought there was going to be an earthquake or an air strike!

We had a different teacher this morning as Ikehara-sensei was away somewhere. She is not a new face, as we see her most every day, but we have never been taught by her before. I think that she normally teaches the Taiwanese students. It was refreshing, but hard as she went at an amazing pace. I think we covered all she wanted to do in about an hour, leaving 30 minutes spare. She did a lot of talking, though I understood most of it. She talked a lot about how fast we were going and that she was shocked that we never asked any questions (she barely gave us time to). She had even been practicing her English pronunciation in preparation for the class. The hardest word that came up, she said, was “delinquency”, though she said it rather well.

I ate far too much for lunch, as they have brought back donburi. So, I had that, but there was 20 minutes left, so I had a curry rice as well. I am not regretting it either. I stand by my intakes, especially as I had no breakfast this morning. One bowl of curry rice = two slices of buttered toast, don’t you think? We had Hirata-sensei in the afternoon and shot through more work. We are on lesson 47 now, with only 50 lessons in the book. The last three look difficult, though, but we will push through anyway.

I came home afterwards. It has been raining all day, quite torrentially at some points, so I did not really want to go out like I had planned. Eventually, there was a lull in the weather, so I ventured forth on my (newly repaired) bicycle. I went to You-Me town, where I wanted to but a CD and a couple of games, but they had nothing that I wanted. I then headed to the post office in order to buy some boxes, but they closed at 5.30 and I was 10 minutes late. So, I got wet for nothing, but maybe a little exercise. It was nice to get out, though, I suppose.

This evening, I have just been programming. I have done lots to my Japanese quiz machine tonight, adding support for vocabulary testing as well as kanji. It is still a little rough around the edges, so I cannot give it to anybody else yet, but I shall tidy them up soon. I shall try using it tomorrow (or later) to learn the vocabulary for the two tests that I have tomorrow to see how useful it actually is. I also played my guitar a little as I was falling asleep at my computer and needed a break.