A day of disappointments (but I don't feel bummed)
The Islanders lost to the Sabres 6-4 in their season opener "last night." But Gothamist had some fun words about the Rangers ("...this season will be different in that they no longer have an astronomical payroll, but similar in that they are going to be bad"). Let's go Islanders.
So far so good for the Astros, but the Red Sox are 0 for 2 in their 5-game series with Chicago. While Tadahito Iguchi's three-run homer gives me something to talk about in Japanese class, I'd really rather see Boston defend their title... well.
Today in class for the last hour we watched and rewatched and listened and relistened to a real weather report from last month. It was the most depressing thing ever, because it was so incredibly difficult to follow/understand, even with the script right in front of me. And while I got very good marks for my "jikoshoukai" [self-introduction] on last week's test (I expect I got extra points under "omoshiroi" [interesting] by talking about juggling and going to Vegas for WJF), my pronunciation apparently sucks. Our Second Big Test is this coming Wednesday and includes keigo (honorific language), passive, and causative-passive. :-( Ganbaru ne.
On a more positive note, I think I have a "friend" here now: Philip-kun. (In case this wasn't already clear to readers.) I've been a little sick the past few days, so he stopped by yesterday evening to see how I was doing. It was really very sweet of him, and we just sat and chatted for a while. I talked to him about Matt's mom and missing friends and making the most of our time here. Talking about such things with someone I hardly know required conscious effort, but I've decided to take a more active role in making friends.
The thing is, with everything that's happened the past few weeks, with me being unable to physically be there for my friends or missing particular aspects of close relationships (like physical manifestations of trust or the superfluity of words), I'm almost reluctant to build strong relationships while I'm here... because I know in two years (or in Phil's case, one year) again we will be separated and necessarily lose a large part of what makes a good friendship really good.
But I know this is an unhealthy attitude to have. And besides, by now I've helped him make "hotcakes" and fed him his first unagi don and slept on his floor and borrowed his anime (it *is* nice to have someone to do things for and/or with), so the budding of our relationship has reached some level of irreversibility... Yet despite that, our mutual shyness continues to make getting past that "local maximum"/"activation energy threshold" into familiarity a bit time-consuming (at times, frustratingly so). Jaa... ganbaru yo. ^_~
So far so good for the Astros, but the Red Sox are 0 for 2 in their 5-game series with Chicago. While Tadahito Iguchi's three-run homer gives me something to talk about in Japanese class, I'd really rather see Boston defend their title... well.
Today in class for the last hour we watched and rewatched and listened and relistened to a real weather report from last month. It was the most depressing thing ever, because it was so incredibly difficult to follow/understand, even with the script right in front of me. And while I got very good marks for my "jikoshoukai" [self-introduction] on last week's test (I expect I got extra points under "omoshiroi" [interesting] by talking about juggling and going to Vegas for WJF), my pronunciation apparently sucks. Our Second Big Test is this coming Wednesday and includes keigo (honorific language), passive, and causative-passive. :-( Ganbaru ne.
On a more positive note, I think I have a "friend" here now: Philip-kun. (In case this wasn't already clear to readers.) I've been a little sick the past few days, so he stopped by yesterday evening to see how I was doing. It was really very sweet of him, and we just sat and chatted for a while. I talked to him about Matt's mom and missing friends and making the most of our time here. Talking about such things with someone I hardly know required conscious effort, but I've decided to take a more active role in making friends.
The thing is, with everything that's happened the past few weeks, with me being unable to physically be there for my friends or missing particular aspects of close relationships (like physical manifestations of trust or the superfluity of words), I'm almost reluctant to build strong relationships while I'm here... because I know in two years (or in Phil's case, one year) again we will be separated and necessarily lose a large part of what makes a good friendship really good.
But I know this is an unhealthy attitude to have. And besides, by now I've helped him make "hotcakes" and fed him his first unagi don and slept on his floor and borrowed his anime (it *is* nice to have someone to do things for and/or with), so the budding of our relationship has reached some level of irreversibility... Yet despite that, our mutual shyness continues to make getting past that "local maximum"/"activation energy threshold" into familiarity a bit time-consuming (at times, frustratingly so). Jaa... ganbaru yo. ^_~
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