I had a good day.
Jun. 24th, 2012 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frellnikWow, my back is killing me!! It hasn't hurt this much since Hong Kong! lol I guess I overdid it with something...I only wish I knew what caused it. But it's been sore for 2 days now. Although today doesn't seem to be quite as bad as yesterday. It's a constant ache though. I think it may have been one of the stretches I did yesterday morning. And I've been at my base school all week and my chair doesn't support my back and I am always sore by the end of the week. I'm not looking forward to this next month. I've got 3 days next week at a different school and then I'm at my base school until September. I'm going to have to look into getting a different chair because my back really can't take it. I think that combined with the bad stretch is why my back is so bad this weekend.
So, yesterday I went to my Japanese class in Taira and when I got off the train I ran into Anna :) She was meeting up with her one time French teacher for lunch and wanted to introduce me to her. Her teacher's name is Michiko and she spent 6 years attending university in Paris! She has a beaitful French accent and I spent quite a bit of time talking with her in French. I was invited to lunch and we went to the ramen shop I go to every week. I got my lunch for free, thanks to a full lunch card, and we talked in a mix of French, Japanese and English. I am quite happy to say that I didn't have too much trouble speaking French with her. It's been so long since I've used my French that I am surprised by how much I still remember. I also discovered that while I'm able to switch back and forth between English and Japanese with no problems, I have a lot of trouble switching between French and Japanese. It's like my brain gets confused and doesn't know that French isn't Japanese. I kept incerting Japanese words into my French sentences and then when I wanted to say something in Japanese it would want to come out in French. I guess my brain figure if I'm not speaking English then I should be speaking Japanese and when I try to speak French it gets confused. lol I guess i need to practice. lol
I went to my Japanese lesson after that and had a really good time. Lots of laughter today. I haven't had this much fun with Japanese in a while, so I guess things are looking up :) I spent 3 hours there and then went to Mr. Donoughts and had a drink while waiting to meet up with Anna and Junko to go for dinner. Anna is going to Australia in 2 weeks to go to grad school. She most likely won't be back to Japan before I leave in 3 years. So this was a goodbye dinner. We went to Denny's and spent 3 hours just talking.
I lent Anna one of my movies the last week, "The New Guy" and she loved it. She returned it last night and Junko asked what it was so I lent it to her to watch too. Junko and I have decided to get together once a week to watch movies (she hasn't seen Ice Age or all of the Toy Story movies yet!!) in both English and Japanese. So I may get to hang out with people more often now :) I'm going to miss Anna though! Thank god for FB. lol.
So, yesterday I went to my Japanese class in Taira and when I got off the train I ran into Anna :) She was meeting up with her one time French teacher for lunch and wanted to introduce me to her. Her teacher's name is Michiko and she spent 6 years attending university in Paris! She has a beaitful French accent and I spent quite a bit of time talking with her in French. I was invited to lunch and we went to the ramen shop I go to every week. I got my lunch for free, thanks to a full lunch card, and we talked in a mix of French, Japanese and English. I am quite happy to say that I didn't have too much trouble speaking French with her. It's been so long since I've used my French that I am surprised by how much I still remember. I also discovered that while I'm able to switch back and forth between English and Japanese with no problems, I have a lot of trouble switching between French and Japanese. It's like my brain gets confused and doesn't know that French isn't Japanese. I kept incerting Japanese words into my French sentences and then when I wanted to say something in Japanese it would want to come out in French. I guess my brain figure if I'm not speaking English then I should be speaking Japanese and when I try to speak French it gets confused. lol I guess i need to practice. lol
I went to my Japanese lesson after that and had a really good time. Lots of laughter today. I haven't had this much fun with Japanese in a while, so I guess things are looking up :) I spent 3 hours there and then went to Mr. Donoughts and had a drink while waiting to meet up with Anna and Junko to go for dinner. Anna is going to Australia in 2 weeks to go to grad school. She most likely won't be back to Japan before I leave in 3 years. So this was a goodbye dinner. We went to Denny's and spent 3 hours just talking.
I lent Anna one of my movies the last week, "The New Guy" and she loved it. She returned it last night and Junko asked what it was so I lent it to her to watch too. Junko and I have decided to get together once a week to watch movies (she hasn't seen Ice Age or all of the Toy Story movies yet!!) in both English and Japanese. So I may get to hang out with people more often now :) I'm going to miss Anna though! Thank god for FB. lol.
