Posted by: elephantdreams on: September 23, 2008
How noir is it to open a newspaper and see your own face? Answer: Pretty noir. Please imagine the camera crawling towards a desk as the detective flips open his news paper and takes a swig from his bottle. The voiceover says, “I didn’t expect to find trouble in the variety section, but there she [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: September 19, 2008
Dear Typhoon Sinlaku:
Donde esta the typhoon, hombre? Where is the rain? Where is the wind? Where is school getting cancelled because it’s too dangerous for students, but not teachers who must take paid vacation time if they want to avoid danger and stay home?
We were seriously looking forward to a day of cancelled classes and [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: September 16, 2008
Today is Wednesday, hump day. Today is also Practice Test day for the ichi-nensei ) first graders = 10th grade) and ni-nensei (second graders = 11th grade), which means I have no classes until 3:20, when I will play bingo with my 104 class. Hahahah! Take that, education system! Except that just leaves me with [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: September 12, 2008
1. Do typewriters dream of poetry?, 2. O-bento, 3. yep
Happy Thursday everyone! Sorry I’m late.
It’s time for… Things I Love Thursday Friday!!! Yay!!!
This week, my toes are curling with happiness over the following things:
A change in the weather!! Finally, it is becoming cooler (and also, I am adjusting to things). I can sleep under a [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: September 9, 2008
Ok, everyone…
At home, I typed up the long version what happened to me this weekend, and it ended up being a 5-page word document. Frankly, this is one of those stories that “reads” better when it is told aloud, because then I can do things like add crazy emphasis and build to the “and to [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: September 5, 2008
Yo ho, everyone
The cultural festival is tomorrow. Or you can call it a School Festival, perhaps. I’m trying now to figure out how to write about what I’ve been seeing in the school today.
It’s pretty crazy. The kids are running everywhere, busily decorating classrooms, hauling desks, etc. At lunch, the ENTIRE school gathered in the [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: September 3, 2008
Hello friends!!!
Sorry for no entry & resolutions yesterday… there is also no TiLT this week because tomorrow, I am going to my second school for the first time!! (EEEeeee!! Eeee!!!) I was supposed to go yesterday, but I didn’t….
because…
yesterday was sports day!!!
Yay! Sports day, sports day! Sports Festival is the proper name, but what it [...]
