2008年11月19日水曜日

Keita's boot camp Season 2

On Tuesday, I had 4 classes from the first period to fourth period so got up as usual and went to school by bike. And I took the first period, which was a Japanese history class. I'm taking this class but I7m not so interested in it. Because the teacher keeps talking during the time I mean he talks like a non stop and his class is boring and difficult to understand. But knowing about Japanese past is important especially for me because I'll go overseas next year exactly in two months and more so I this so. And the next class was Honors English seminar2 and we learned how to debate, for example there are basic style you know for example there are affirmative side and negative side and each side mustn't change their opinion and persuade the opponent.
And it was second time to debate and the topic was 'Japanese government should lower the age of voting from twenty to eighteen'. By the way we divided all the attendants into two group, which are affirmative side and negative side. I was in the negative side so our group had to asset that we don't have to lower the age of voting. And before the class we had two weeks to prepare for it so, we collected information on it. And I searched on the internet and I found that almost all the nation think we can lower the voting age so I was difficulty searching affirmative opinion
I mean we were the minority. But I managed to collect the information and challenged it.
We told that if we change the voting age we have to change the age of drinking , smoking and gambling as well. We felt that it's hard for us to our asset.
Because my opinion was a affirmative side so that's why. and I thought I had better study about how to debate more and I realized we had to collect information more. So next time we'd like to do our best.

And then, during lunch time, when I was going to the English Lounge, I met Eryn, who is from Montana university an exchange student so I talked with her a lot and in the conversation I asked her whether she can understand Spanish or not. And she told she can Spanish so I asked her to help me with my Spanish study.
According to her, she learned Spanish for a year when she was a high school student.
So we studied Spanish while we were having lunch in the English Lounge. But she seems that she forgets Spanish a bit so we tried to translate Spanish to English together.
Do you know why I studied Spanish during lunch time? Of course, I had Spanish class in the fourth period and we all the students taking the class have to translate Spanish to Japanese and read it. That's the reason and she could do it and I really tanked her and I appreciated her for helping me with my assignment. I think she's so kind and nice and cleaver. And in the third period, i took the linguistics, which is pretty difficult compared with other Tuesday's classes. In this class, we think about Japanese grammar. I feel like I'm an exchange student from another country.
I think Japanese grammar is more difficult than that of English. Because it's very complicated and I don't know exact reason even me. So I think I'm sorry for exchange students because it's difficult to understand. And I remember that one of the exchange students told that Japanese grammar is complicated and can't understand it sometimes. I know how they feel and I'd like to help them with their Japanese study when they need any help.

After taking the class, I went to the fourth building and took the Spanish class.
I had confidence because I prepared for it perfectly but a problem happened.
I found that I had not finished translating all the sentences. So I started to translate the rest of Spanish sentences but after finishing my part, we have five minutes left I men I didn't have enough time to go to the front and give my speech.
but next time I'll do it without fail.

And after school I went to my part-time job as usual and it's a cram school.
You know I'm a teacher of cram school and I teach all the subjects to the first grade students to the ninth grade students and sometimes I teach English to high school students. I can teach high school students only English. Because I'm an English major student and I'm good at it so I'm teaching English mainly.
I'm a charge of ninth grade students now and they will take an entrance examination next year so I'm doing my best every time.

And I have another part-time job maybe you know, which is an OTARUKOU. It's a kind of restaurant and it's exactly a sushi bar. I started this sushi bar this August and I'm supposed to go there twice a week but I can't continue this job. Because I have two part-tome job and the other job, cram school's job will be busy from now on and I have to go more often so I have no time to go to OTARUKOU.
I'm so sad but I’d like to think positively. I have a little time left because I won't here in Japan next February so I think I’d like to contact with the students very often and I’d like to teach them as many as I know.
I’d not like to regret after I left Japan, so I make it a point to concentrate on this part-time job.

And I'd like to enjoy the rest of stay in Japan and make good memories here so I'd like to hang out with my friends and anyone who have time to hang out with me, please invite me and spend a great time together!!
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