November & December

2 December 2010

I taught Jacklyn last Friday, this time in a restaurant instead of cafe. It was very helpful for studying. We went to a Japanese style pasta restaurant called “Pasta de Waraku”. The menu was both written in Japanese and English. So she was able to read them easily. I also taught her how to read numbers and values, for example 10s, 100s, 1000s, 10,000s and so on. Other than this, I also taught her how to read complicated numbers, for example 15,437. At first she struggled, but after I translated her how to read them, she told me that it was way much easier for her to understand. Later on, I taught her how to use the word eat, drink, do, can, go and come in Japanese. Since the words are too complicated, I made her a table for the translation and sent it to her. She said that it is easier to understand and will be a lot faster to learn. For the next lesson, she said that she would like to talk about the Japanese Language test since I did the test last December and passed the test for level 2 (level 4 is the easiest and level 1 is the hardest).

3 December

Last Saturday and the previous Saturday, I’ve been teaching Mr. Nakamichi about office and business vocabularies that may help his everyday life in his office. I taught him words such as office, company, data, information, paper, pen, meeting room and many more. He told me that it was very helpful, although he had to memorize so much new vocabularies.

Evaluation

When I looked back to what I did for my students, I really felt proud of them and also myself. I taught Mr. Nakamichi from the very beginning, where he didn’t even know how to ask for things he needs. I taught Jacklyn how to develop her Japanese and even start a conversation. Now they are starting to improve rapidly and I am very happy to see that. I feel that I am making a change although it is a very small change compared to the world. But I feel the happiness when my students are happy because they gain their language skills.

Dance

I have been starting to have the actual real practice for the last event this year, which is the Christmas celebration, which will occur on 15^th of December. This might be the last time me, as a senior to have a dance performance since I might be too busy next year facing the exams although I still want to do it. This is going be my third performance. For this performance, I am using a choreographer for the first time. The reason is because the crew and I (the 12^th graders) had semester test, so I thought it was better to ask someone to choreograph. Although we used a choreographer, we still made few movements by ourselves to keep our performance how we want it to be. So far the progress is pretty good but still need so much things to brush up. I’ve had three practices so far and this week and next week are going to be the last practice and we’re up next Wednesday for the performance.