At work I was welcomed yesterday with a big task. One of the staff requested that I translate an 8 page document from Japanese to English. Usually I like to help out people at work by cleaning up their English, making it more professional and natural. This time, it was completely different – starting from scratch. So I’m using it as a project to brush up on my Japanese skills. It is due at the end of the day on Friday, so hopefully I can get it done…
Back at work after a long holiday is always tough. I felt pretty good, though. My students were just as tired as I was, but I put together kind of a “let’s get back into English mode” lesson, and I think it went well. More of these kinds of lessons coming up this week, and then we’ll get to new material.
One of my students gave me his New Year card, and on the front he had created a number puzzle from scratch. It was very clever, and it took me about an hour with an Excel spreadsheet to figure it out. I’ll turn it back in to him tomorrow – hopefully I got everything correct. Going from relaxation and no thinking at all to two brain puzzlers in a week – kind of a shock to my system.
