Cute conversation with kids

I haven’t slept well lately. Monday I set my alarm back to 6:25 to make sure I had time to read the Bible and do devotions. On Tuesday I set it to 6:20. Both times I woke up very disoriented, so I decided to stop moving my alarm earlier until I was a little more accustomed to the time. This morning my neighbor woke me up a little before six (maybe she had to catch the train, poor girl). I dozed a bit but still decided to start reading before the alarm. However, I was still really disoriented and barely able to keep my eyes open.

Monday I managed to complete my goal of all the textbook reading plus the quiz, and I even got a perfect score on the quiz. The material was quite interesting, but by the end of the day I was too tired to appreciate and really think about it. So I’m not sure that I will try that again. Yesterday I did the extra presentations, but that was only about twenty minutes together. After finishing that, I did a lot of programming. I made good progress and I think I’ve probably fully converted my formerly working program from a multi-windowed nightmare into using panels instead. Next I need to make sure that I can add verses manually, maybe test the reviewing a bit more, and add options.

I had a good chat with my brother last night. It seems that he might be picking up an interesting hobby (yard sale/thrift store reselling). I’m looking forward to hearing more about it when I get home.

On my way to work this morning I passed a few first graders. One of them ran to catch up with me and asked me if I had a beard. My hat/shapka is very furry, so I can understand their confusion. I unbuckled it and said “no!” and we all laughed. I walked a little further and they ran to catch up with me again, and we talked:

C: “Can you speak Japanese?”

Me: (in Japanese) “a little.”

C: “Speak!”

Me: “ohayo gozaimasu” (good morning)

C: “Ooh, even though you’re American, you speak Japanese!”

Me: “Can you speak English? Hello?”

C: “Hello!”

Me: (in Japanese) “Oooh! Even though you’re Japanese you speak English!”

C: “Oooh! You spoke Japanese again!”

So that was cute and funny.