Not much exciting to report today – Kuniko is still struggling along even though she is exhausted. I’ve got relatively easy days, so I’m just doing what I can to support her while she’s going through this. She came back home tonight exhausted again, and tomorrow she has to make a 30 minute speech in front of her whole school, so she’s anxious about that.
On my way home today I bumped into a student of mine from last year’s graduating class. She is studying English in college, but she was disappointed that they aren’t spending much time actually speaking it. That sounds about right from what I’ve heard. There are foreign lecturers, but they can’t speak one-on-one with all their students.
She was just about to ask me to teach her English one-on-one, but luckily my train arrived and I said goodbye. At my stop I got off the train with another one of my students – a 2nd year boy. He said hello and I asked him if he was headed home now. The problem was, he thought I was asking him if he would to my home. I tried to correct his misunderstanding in Japanese, but it just made it worse. Finally I just said goodbye, and he was very relieved to say goodbye back to me and head out of there.
Tonight I cooked up garlic pork steaks and a green salad on the side. We ate at a reasonable hour since Kuniko arrived home around 7 p.m. We’re off to bed early to try to get a jump on the big day tomorrow…
