First of all, I wanted to thank Kory for the Christmas card, because it's the first piece of mail I've received here, so thank you, Kory!
Also, thank you all for reading even though I can't post very often and I can't put any more pictures up until I get internet access on my own computer. I've heard that you can pick up a signal at Mr. Donuts, so some weekend I may try carting my laptop over there and then I could upload some pictures!
Anyway, I wanted to tell you about my two Japanese tutors. Fukuyama has a program called FAGE, which I think is the Fukuyama Association for Global Exchange (or something) and one of the things they do is hook up foreigners with volunteer Japanese tutors. So I signed up with them right away when I got here, but I also got the name of the tutor that the man I replaced was seeing, Kaori. Kaori is a young woman (maybe in her 30s?) who speaks a lot of English and sells kimonos at one of the fancy department stores in town. Unfortunately, because her English is so much better than my Japanese, we spend a lot of time talking in English and I'm not sure how much I've actually learned from my first two lessons with her. However, it's nice to have someone to ask questions of and get some practice in every week.
My other tutor, the one I got through FAGE, is an older woman. I've only seen her once so far, when we met at the FAGE office to exchange info and set up a time for tutoring. She seems very sweet and I don't think she speaks much English, so hopefully we'll be forced to communicate in Japanese! We will be meeting at her house, which I think is great because I like seeing people's houses and it's not something you get to do very often here.
And even if I don't get to practice as much Japanese as I'd like during tutoring, I have to practice every day, so I'm sure I'll learn a lot, anyway!
I guess I'd better head to work. I don't have class until 2 today (I start at 1 or 2 Tuesday-Friday and finish my last class at 9; on Saturdays everything is an hour earlier), but I need to finish preparing the article my discussion classes will be reading next week. Thanks for reading!
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Good luck learning Japanese! Watching some Japanese TV will help (anime helps me since they don't usually speak as fast for those shows). Which reminds me, I need to call my sensei to try to re-establish our lessons which had to be cut off for scheduling conflicts.
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