{"id":1005,"date":"2006-05-17T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2006-05-17T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T10:51:00","slug":"lunchtime-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It felt like Friday today because it was the last day of school before exams.  I had just a couple of classes, and all the students were looking past my lesson to the midterm tests.  I managed to catch their attention and keep them focused on the task at hand, though.<\/p>\n<p>Today for some reason I spent a lot of time speaking with students.  I had lunch in the remodeled cafeteria, and two third year boys came over and ate lunch with me.  We chatted for the lunch period almost entirely in English.  I could tell the boys were stoked just to be having the conversation, and they were looking pretty good for all the girls in cafeteria.  <\/p>\n<p>I met with Mori sensei to talk about the end of the term, and what exactly we&#8217;ll be doing.  She&#8217;s giving me a lot more control over what happens.  It may be because she got a taste of letting me do it and she realized how much easier it is on her.  That&#8217;s fine by me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I made philly cheesesteaks for dinner tonight, and they were messy but delicious.  Kuniko is back and we&#8217;re doing a little brain training before we hit the sack tonight.  Tomorrow is the start of exams at my school, so no classes for me.  I&#8217;m going to head into Himeji after work and try to get my driver&#8217;s license translated, and maybe soon I&#8217;ll try to get a Japanese driver&#8217;s license.  It&#8217;s a very complicated procedure &#8211; it takes most Americans several attempts to get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It felt like Friday today because it was the last day of school before exams. I had just a couple of classes, and all the students were looking past my lesson to the midterm tests. I managed to catch their attention and keep them focused on the task at hand, though. Today for some reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-gd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}