Jonathan's Japan Journal (ジョナサンの日本日記)

Today, there was another once-a-term school-wide placement test. Except for those of us in A class. Bwah ha ha! Sorry, but I've been waiting a while to be in a position to able to say that. Actually, the placement tests (which, as their name implies, is a factor in the next term's class placement, though not as heavy a factor as said name implies) aren't so bad—certainly nothing like the JLPT, in all its unholiness. They are good practice, in a sense. But I generally look at tests as review sessions anyway.

昨日、ある事情で僕は昼ご飯を食べなかったけど、食べなかったばかりに体力が足りなくて午後の会話テストに失敗してしまった。（先生とテープレコーダーの前で何もスムーズに言えなくて切ないもんだった。）でも、会話テストと違って昨日の作文テストはいつもよりうまくいったと思う。言いたいことを頭の中でちゃんと整理して書けたから。

Today, after class ended, I decided to go to the post office ATM and pull out some cash before heading to Seiyu for some foodstuffs. However, on the way to the ATM, I ran into no fewer than three very kind Japanese ladies that I know and haven't seen in a while—one after another and right in the same spot, at that. First, one stopped me and we chatted for a bit; then the second also approached and the three of us talked; finally, as soon as the first two left, the third one (the one I'm tightest with) pulled up in her car and invited me to karaoke tomorrow. (However, since my former classmates Yo and Melody are returning to Okazaki tomorrow, I likely won't be able to go.) It was nice, is all.

２時間目の授業が終わっているとき、あるクラスメートに「似顔絵は描けますか」と聞かれた。正直に「いや、できない」と答えたけど、描いてみればどうならかなと思って、教室の前に立っていらっしゃった黒田先生をあるプリントの裏面にこっそりを描いた。先生に見せる機会がなかったけど、せっかく描いたからアップロードすることにした。

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