12/26 土
Family called! There were slight difficulties, but it worked out okay, and afterwards, we ate with a group of members and had a trivia contest and lunch. It's always fun when someone asks you, in Japanese, the number of the pitcher who <insert baseball talk here>. But there were some gospel-related questions, and that was fun.
Afterwards, we went to finish up that week’s SKK when the chouroutachi knocked on our door.
Chouroutachi: Guess what?
Us: What?
Chouroutachi: K-kyoudai is here.
Us: ?
C: And he brought food. He's going to make us food.
Us: :) ...
It was delicious. There was a moment, though, in the last couple bites, where I was seriously afraid that I wasn't going to make it. But I focused, aligned my chakras (or something), and became one with the food. SUCCESS!
M. shimai and I team-worked today! That was super. As we were standing in the eki (station), waiting for our subway, I was like, "M. shimai, do you have an eikaiwa chirashi (English class flyer)?"
MS: Yes. *gets it out*
A couple steps down, she gave it to a grandpa standing across from us. He gave her a polite smile, looked at the flyer, and was like,
Family called! There were slight difficulties, but it worked out okay, and afterwards, we ate with a group of members and had a trivia contest and lunch. It's always fun when someone asks you, in Japanese, the number of the pitcher who <insert baseball talk here>. But there were some gospel-related questions, and that was fun.
Afterwards, we went to finish up that week’s SKK when the chouroutachi knocked on our door.
Chouroutachi: Guess what?
Us: What?
Chouroutachi: K-kyoudai is here.
Us: ?
C: And he brought food. He's going to make us food.
Us: :) ...
It was delicious. There was a moment, though, in the last couple bites, where I was seriously afraid that I wasn't going to make it. But I focused, aligned my chakras (or something), and became one with the food. SUCCESS!
M. shimai and I team-worked today! That was super. As we were standing in the eki (station), waiting for our subway, I was like, "M. shimai, do you have an eikaiwa chirashi (English class flyer)?"
MS: Yes. *gets it out*
A couple steps down, she gave it to a grandpa standing across from us. He gave her a polite smile, looked at the flyer, and was like,
"I'm Buddhist
and I have no interest in English." *hands the flyer back to her*
Me: I felt a prompting to ask, “Do you have any grandchildren?”
Him: “Yeah, four. The eldest is actually a pro at English. Even his teachers are surprised at how good he is.”
Me: “Wow. That's super. Would you give him this for us?”
MS: *hands him the flyer*
Him: “Okay.” *takes it* “My youngest is really bad at English, even though her brother's awesome at it.”
Me: “I heard the hardest part about learning English is speaking it, since there are so few opportunities to speak with gaijin.”
Him: “Yeah, you don't bump into people like you too often.”
Me: “Sou desu ne. Would you invite her to come to eikaiwa too, then?”
Him: “Yeah, sure.”
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: INSPIRED QUESTION!!!
And then we got our bikes but came home late TT^TT
Me: I felt a prompting to ask, “Do you have any grandchildren?”
Him: “Yeah, four. The eldest is actually a pro at English. Even his teachers are surprised at how good he is.”
Me: “Wow. That's super. Would you give him this for us?”
MS: *hands him the flyer*
Him: “Okay.” *takes it* “My youngest is really bad at English, even though her brother's awesome at it.”
Me: “I heard the hardest part about learning English is speaking it, since there are so few opportunities to speak with gaijin.”
Him: “Yeah, you don't bump into people like you too often.”
Me: “Sou desu ne. Would you invite her to come to eikaiwa too, then?”
Him: “Yeah, sure.”
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: INSPIRED QUESTION!!!
And then we got our bikes but came home late TT^TT
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