On
Wednesday I went to the last Shiojiri City English educators meeting
that I will attend. I talked to the coordinator, Hayakawa-sensei
after the meeting, and was able to tell her that I respected her and
learned from her. I think she appreciated hearing that, and I felt
good about having told her.
I
really wanted to complete my last assignment for my class last night,
but I couldn’t work up the motivation. When I decided to buckle
down and do it this morning, I got it done in 20 minutes. Note
though, that this was just the last part, a 150 word response, as the
rest of the assignment was written on Wednesday. This morning I also
got my grade back for my final paper—it was really high. Come to
think of it, it might be the highest grade I’ve ever gotten on a
significant paper. I felt that the paper severely lacked
cohesiveness, and I know that it was linguistically repetitive and
could have been better organized. Hopefully remembering this will
help me to meet the basic requirements for future assignments without
stress, regardless of how I feel about the actual quality.
Today
I will work on assembling my belongings that I will give away or
pack. I’ve got just over three weeks left in the country, and less
than three weeks in this apartment. At this point I think I could get
rid of everything except basic cookware and dining ware and I would
be able to live without much discomfort. I would definitely miss my
bike though.
JAPANESE
I’ve
been inconsistent this week, but I did add two words yesterday. I did
some extra Japanese reading on Thursday, and I read Steins;Gate
yesterday for 25 minutes and mined some more words.
5-MINUTE
PLANK
I
haven’t come close to three minutes in a while. I know that muscles
need to rest, so I feel like I shouldn’t do planks every day, but I
feel like I was doing better when I was doing them every day. Now I
tend to forget in the morning, and procrastinate in the evening.
I’ve
already done my plank for this morning, but for the next week I think
I will do side planks in the morning, and normal planks at night. I
will allow myself two rest times, one of which will be Wednesday, and
the other will probably come because I forgot.
DANCING
I
skipped Monday-Thursday, but danced yesterday. I established that I
can do most of the steps that I know with my chosen song to
choreograph. The salsa step is rushed at this tempo, but I don’t do
that step very well in the first place—I need practice and I might
even need coaching to get it right. I would like to get at least two
more decent steps, because I really don’t have enough variety. I
typically look for new steps every time before I dance. For this
week, I plan to work on transitions, particularly to and from the pas
de bouree which I plan to use as my base step.
PROGRAMMING
I’ll
work on this today, and this week! But I haven’t done so yet.
BIBLE
MEMORY
Psalms
15-17 weren’t so bad, but today I review Psalm 18, the longest one
I know at 50 verses. Also, I’m behind schedule, which is why I’m
doing Psalm 18 all in one day. Last week I missed three days. If I
miss more than one day before the 15th, my test on that
day won’t accurately reflect my knowledge. So I’ll try my best
not to skip at all.
RUBIK’S
CUBE
I
haven’t practiced according to the system that I set up last week.
A lot of my free time was spent on fanfiction, so some days I only
practiced for a couple of minutes, mainly on F2L but doing the PLL
patterns at least twice. Even so, I feel like my progress is (barely)
satisfactory, so today I’ll start learning OLL. There are 10
algorithms in 2-look OLL—three in the first step, seven in the second. I'll give myself until next Sunday, eight days, to learn these ten algorithms. After next Sunday, I will be working on my weak spots until finishing the challenge.
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