The Eye of Patrick

Today…. is tuesday?

Yes it is hehe…. so I woke up today and was thinking whether i should or should not go to class. For the most part i was thinking of not going as my Japanese teacher is not the most wonderful educator. But i decided I would feel too guilty if i skipped class so I went after all and it turned out we had a quizz that day so I was lucky. The next thing was I had not prepapred for my quiz as i was not sure it was today. But luckly I knew most of the vocab and one ??? which is magazine, but i did not know, but for some reason i was listening to a converstation with other people and they were talking about this word (before class) so i just guessed and on another one i also guessed. So that was very lucky of me. Then we were able to get an extension on our skit we had to do the next day.

Then I went to my Peace, conflict and Human Rights and somehow go suckered into giving a presentation on foreign Aid and what is it and how it effects developing countries in the SE asian region. I like this topic as it mixes my strong interest in more political side of development, plus it is in a topic that i am interested in and good thing it is a topic that could possibly lead to future employment. So i will see, i like the topic, it is just getting around the topic and getting a feel of it. But i remember I took a class with a prof last year at trent who’s speciality is this topic, so may be I will give it a look. I can’t wait to finally dig into an assignment.

Then i was walking out and i ran into a friend and was like lets go eat and he said sure. So we ended up eating and then his friend came and a japanese girl who i had not met before. I wish i spoke better japanese as they were gabbering away and I was left sitting there understanding a small part of the converstation. Like i could understand it and follow it pretty good, but I could not reply as my vocab was not good enough. But with due time, and i need to stop being shy.

Then… i had to leave to go to teach english class again, i love the train ride as usual as it gives me time to think and sometimes just to look around and see the real Japan. I enjoy it a lot. My class was as fun as usual, we usually just talk about pointless stuff and it is fun. We did an example today, where I was a customer who wanted to buy stuff from his company and he was trying to sell me it. It was a break from our usual english which is more causal to a form that is more formal. But it was a good mix.

Oh yesterday was V-day in Japan, and it is interesting experience, i was able to get Chocolates from other girls, just friends. As the custom in japan is to give chocolates to friends or bf on the 14th and you will get something back a month later on white day.

I must say I have the best gf in the world, she got me M&Ms that had custom sayings on them, i did not notice at first but then later on i looked at them and was shocked to realize that they said Meu Amor Patrick hehe, i loeve her hehe…. and she gave me salt and vingear chips, they are yummy. But i hid them or i would eat them all in one day.

Patrick