The rest of the day...

Wow, what a day.
In mentor session we played that game from whos line is it anyway. Questions. Where two people talk to each other with only questions until someone messes up. You mess up you switch out with the next person... yup thats all we did the whole class.

After that I went down to the PSU book store and picked up the book for ways of knowing. I got a used one since they were all out of the new ones. Which is a better deal anyway since its cheaper, and the one I randomly picked out had a whole bunch of notes and had the important parts hi-lighted already.

I decided to go back to my car and feed the meter since it was already an hour past due when I recognized a familiar face. It was Fabion (Faubian?). A friend of mine from Madame Albert's (my AP French teacher) lunch time movie showings back in high school. I havent seen him in ages since he graduated class of 03. We caught up with each other, where we've been, what we are doing. It was good to see him again. I was actually just thinking about him the other day and how I wondered what ever happened to madame albert. Turns out he talked to her recently and can probably get me in touch. Who knew in a college of 25,000 Id run into old faces more than the new ones who actually live in the dorms? We talked for an hour straight before realizing he needed to catch a bus and I needed to feed the meter so we went our separate ways after exchanging email. Luckily even though it was two hours past due, I didnt get any ticket sitation. I thought about just temping things and letting it go the rest of the day but ultimately decided I couldnt afford that risk.

Fast forward to Japanese. The first 3/4 of the class went fine but then the teacher started getting into verbs but since she wasnt supposed to speak in english she didnt tell anyone and everyone was confused as all hell, myself included. I actually started getting pretty frustrated because she kept calling on me and although I could repeat the words she had everyone say, I had no idea what I was actually saying. I realised something about japanese 101 today. Everything she covered was almost straight from the book. Mr Van Buren said we werent going to use the book at all for the ACT class. But as it turns out the native speakers really dont teach at all. All they do is lead drills and they expect the students to learn from the books on their own time. I dont have a real teacher, Im teaching myself. Luckily I live with jordan whos sharing the class with me so we spent a good four hours getting caught up and working on the next weeks lesson. We will be much more prepared for the next class. We made flash cards, studied verbals, adjectivals. I finally realized why Japanese seems so wierd. They dont actually need to have any subjects or verbs or adjectives or adverbs. A sentance is a whole bunch of concepts strung together with arguments. Im actually looking forward to the next class a bit. We also studied the first 20 katakana. Jordans got it down pretty well but I still need some work with them.

Time to get some sleep.