http://jessen1000.deviantart.com/

here’s a link to some of the pictures which i have maked for book.

book

so ill assume that every person who read the previous post some # of months ago, assumed i wasnt serious, and really i would have assumed the same thing myself.

however, I have gotten a decent way into illustrating/writing a book.  the book is aimed at learners of English i guess, its composed of very simple grammar, and easy to read words, and if you ask me, i think ive done an excellent job of making it all rhyme so far.  I dont think ill be done for a while but when i am finished,  it will be sweet.   i have no idea if people will read this, as i dont see why anyone would, however, if you do, and are interested in the development of this, let me know.  otherwise idk.

hm

im not doing this forever.

 

proposed options:

1. because ill probably die first (not interested).

2. im thinking i should  go back to school and study design.

3. not study, and just skip straight to making art for a living.

4. become a   musician.

5. 3 and 4 simultaneously.

I eat my family with dinner

I couldnt help but laugh out loud during the 7th grade test correction class, when i saw the sentence which is the title of this post.  The girl who wrote it looked at me with a confused and slightly offended look, at least until i told her what she wrote.  It was a good time.

test grades for the recent mid term, were reasonably low, though i guess its to be expected for difficult tests. Except for the 7th graders.  It was incredibly wasy and I think its safe to say that any score below  was due to negligence.  For the 8th and 9th grades, the average was about 58, which i feel like is pretty low for kids in such grades.  I guess maybe i dont remember what grades were like when i was in school though.  Another thing to be concerned with, however, is the rediculous grading methology which the JTEs take.  Take for example the following answer, to a problem which was just to change the words into the correct order.  Meaning was not part of the problem

“My mother always tells me to study hard” original correct answer.

“My mother tells me to always study hard” <– I told the teacher that this has to be accepted as well, since its not wrong. originally 0 points, but 3 because i said.

“My mother tells me always to study hard” <– I think this works as well by grammatical technicality. ended up as 0 points for the students

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then another problem was, to answer the question, “Who made Rumi’s yellow ribbon”

I think the only answer that was awarded the full 3 points, was “Her mother did.”

“Her mother.” -2

“It was made by her mother.” -2 (a more difficult sentence structure)

I realize that they want them to speak in proper sentences, but srsly,”It was made by her mother.” should be a full score.

I would say things about this but i know its futile.  They just wont listen.

One kid who is a NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER didnt get 100 points on his test because he only wrote a one word answer for “whats your favorite sport”.  Hes better at english than the danm teacher.  Class has got to be really damn frustrating for him.

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Yuudai is an all around little son of a bitch.  He tries often to gain some sort of petty power over me and try to control me with it.  He fails consistently because i just dont care.    A few months ago a wrote on the back of some piece of paper, (during a test or something serious) some smart ass comment. 　This comment pissed me off, ( he is skilled at pissing me off), so i ripped it from his hands and in half.  It turns out that he intentionally wrote it on the back of something that was apparently important.  He tried to make me feel as if i had done something bad, but after i told him that if it was an important document, that he was wrong for writing dumb ass shit on the back of it.  I informed his also of the fact that i dont care.  After about 3 days he finally realized that i didnt care, and i made him rewrite it, because for some reason he still had not.  He like to try this type of thing.

And so, a few weeks ago, a girl in class who almost never rases her hand, raised her hand.  So i pointed out to the ofher teacher to call on her.  then after class, Yuudai comes up and asks me if i like that girl student.  Why? idk.  but i answer “Of course i do, i like all of you”  I also feel like even in the event that i didnt like the said person, that as a teacher, “No” isnt something that i should answer to that question.  Teachers shouldnt say that they dont like their students imo.

Although i had made myself clear, as you might imagine, Yuudai, despite knowing exactly what i meant, decided to take the words i said beyond their literal meaning and tell his class that im in love ith a 13 year old girl.  The students who chose to believe this gasped as i walked by them the other day, and i was reasonably confused, until i heard some things they whispered poorly to their friends.  i can tell that most of them dont sincerly believe it, but its still wierd.  I guess this believing this type of thing is a pretty reasonable thing to expect  of 8th graders.   I also feel like that type of thing wouldnt even be considered in the US.  because what the fuck.

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new topic.

So yesterday, I was looking at hey chains that the 9th graders had made, they were set out on a table for everyones vieing pleasure.  The assignment was apperently to make a character of yourself.  I was only there for a few seconds before Tomo came up to me and asked me to find hers without looking at the names.  I accidentally saw her name before i guessed, so it ruined the game.  after that she hid the names with her hand and made me guess the names of the other ones.  I actually got like 7 or 8 correct answers in a row.   which is pretty impressive really, since many of them are random shit, like one was an eggplant with glasses, another some sort of mole, then there was a panda as well, and one that was some indefined creature.

halloween

is tomorrow.

But we celebrated today at school since tomorrow is saturday.  I convinced the principar that it was necessary for me to bring in chocolate for all the kids at lunch time.  As easy as this might sound, it was really an inconcievably difficult feat that i accomplished today.

Tomorrow i will be purchasing a camera.  Its something i have needed since i lost my awesome red one on welcome week a few years ago.  Its main purpose will be to document Halloween in Kofu (the capital of yamanashi) Im especially excited for this year since i was sick last year and couldnt really do anything holloween weekend.  It was unfun in bed.

I just need to find vampire teeth.

the lack of general celebration on this country leads to difficulty finding costume accessories.

Results

And so the Speech recitation has finally come to an end.

Although I was hoping for better results (1st) for Rina , her and Fumina both ended up with 3rd place.

They both seemed pleased with the results so thats good.

What i think is stupid about it though, is that two of the four judges are Japanese, the judges which are native speakers both gave rina high scores (appropriately) for her pronunciation and natural sounding english. 37, and 35 out of 40 points.  One of the Japanese judges gave her as low as 20/40 points in this category.   My problem with this is that her pronunciation is surely better than the japanese  judges’.

Despite the dumb Japanese judges scores, in the end they both did really good.

nice shoes

I was talking to some lady the other day who had band-aids on her feet.  The cause was her shoes.

This lead me to the question:

Is the amount of pain a woman put up with to have cute shoes, equivalent to the amount of shit she will put up with, in a relationship?

recent

seems like many things have happened in the past amount of time.

we had the school festival at junior high, which was fun. the only bad part was that i only got to see the last half of the sports day because the coordinator from my company is an idiot, and heard my request to change my schedule as me telling her that my schedule was changed.  i mean, shes supposed to be fluent in english, and somehow made this rediculous error in understanding, that i cant really fathom.

anyways

it was still a good time.

however, during the first day of festivities, maybe 3 students were unknowingly infected with the descendant of swine flu (if i heard correctly, the strand has evolved to the point where they have changed its name)idk the A strand flu is what they have been calling it.

so the day after the festival, those 3 kids were actually sick.  They were all from the same class, so that whole class had to stay home for the rest of the week since for this flu if 3 people get it the class doesnt come.  but the next day, from that class about 10 kids got sick, and 3 from another class did as well, which called for school to be cancelled.

its been a holiday week here, so i left town, but the day before i left there were 53 confirmed cases out of less than 300 students at my school.

these kids suck at being healthy.

im fine

so after that i came to visit bill and jesse on their side of the country,

we had a good time, but 4 days in a row of drinking until 5 or 6 am tires you out.

im tired

the first night here i woke up outdoors and missing a sandal.

i should be more careful.

no school is boring.

speech uploaded

http://www.filefront.com/14536213/Fumina%20script%20and%20practice.wav

heres a link to the speech.

she.

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not.

good at this.

if you think you know what she is saying and feel so inclined, write what you hear in a reply.

Speech contest recording

ok so i have Fuminas recorded speech on wave file.

its actually a prewritten speech so it not like she wrote it, and its for people who speak roughyl her level of english.  so whats shes doing is a speech recitation contest.

anyways…

it seems that this website will make me pay 20ish$ to be able to upload it.

i am not about to pay that.

ideas?

i made a picture

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ive been making this picture for the past while at school with the art club.  i guess art club is a bad name for the club, since they just have to make stuff, like anything.  creation club? . I liked this picture until i realized i accidentally shaped it like a flag.  its still ok though i guess.  im thinking of making 3 other pictures and have this one be placed in the bottom roght corner, for a 4-in-1 picture deal.  idk though that will take a lot of time.

There are various facts about this traveler which unfolded as i was asked quiestions by the members of the club.  He is coming from a deserted island and  presumably he has crafted the boat himself.  He is bound for the moon.  this ocean is part of a washing machine.  i think there were a few other things but they dont come to mind.

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Also i took this picture with my cell phone, but the impressiveness of that seems to be lost in the small size that this skin restricts me to.  it could be much bigger.