Do you remember AKB48? They're back...
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This is No.1 at the moment... I give up.
The two guys sitting in front of me in Earth and Planetary Sciences (This is the class where the only person who ever acknowledges my presence is the lecturer. By staring at me with a shocked expression.), randomly started talking to each other in English at the end of class. Sounded a bit like they'd learned their whole vocabulary from Mario Kart 64 to be honest...I don't really know have a clue if they were trying to impress me, make fun of me or try to get me to talk to them...
Things took a more surreal turn in Classical Mechanics (This is the class that talk to me from time to time. Usually to ask me if I'm French...). A photographer came round to get some snaps for the department prospectus... can you see where this is going?
So she asks if it would be possible to get some "action shots", like, people doing physics-y stuff. Like, maybe someone could write a problem on the board and the rest of the class look interested... someone like...
I didn't really feel that I could refuse, but I was pretty annoyed with it. I wouldn't care if they had me sitting around randomly in class (like I do normally anyway) in a kind of "look! We have foreigners as well!" way, but having me standing up front and center just looks ridiculous and contrived... And besides, my handwriting sucks...
So, JLPT in less than a month... Basically this means 4 hours of studying a day... fun times are being had here :-)
Oh, and I had 2 reports on Satellite Laser Ranging and the Indo-Eurasia plate collision to hand in last week. At least, I though we had 2 reports to hand in. When I stuck my 1000 character, thrice checked and fully referenced Laser Ranging masterpiece in the box I noticed everyone else had written 3 sentences on this tiny A5 scrap of paper... :-(
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hi thomas . when you are writing reports do you thinkl in english and laboriyuosly consciously translate or do you mentally assemple in japanese . how about sending me a translated version of your reports .? BTW I am helping Hiro ( of the 'swap a student son' scheme) to move residencies on sunday . Got to be hopme for the World Cup final . I am going native !!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI tried the "think in English and translate to Japanese" approach one and the results were not pretty, so I tend to do them from the beginning in Japanese.
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