Got up at 5:00 a.m.
This day I wanted to finish checking and correcting
all your e-mails of translations. But I failed to secure enough
time to do so.
I had three English lessons this day.
First, I had an English lesson with one of my new students at 10:00.
At the beginning of the lesson, I talked about our trip to Kyoto.
During this trip, we came across many surprising things at
an inn where we spent the second night.
One of these surprises was that I had to go into and through
other's room to enter my small/tiny room.
I talked this to the student and she burst into laugh.
I don't blame her for this.
In the second lesson with one of my deshis (with whom I went to
Kyoto for her English training), I had a three hours long lesson.
In the first two hours, I taught her how to pronounce English words
and how to express things in English.
In the another hour, we practiced how to make variations
of one basic English expressions. (I'll email you about this later.)
This practice will help her teach English to junior high schoolers
in her own classes.
I had the third lesson with a college student.
The above-mentioned deshi is also a college student.
They are the same age. This college student goes to 活水大学
in Nagasaki.
I taught English pronunciation and how to catch English
words, sentences and meaning.
She sometimes makes fun of me and so becomes a hot potato
to me.