Just like last year, this year there is a speech contest. I'm staying after until usually around 5:30 to 6 to help out the kids with their speeches. I've even gone in a few weekends. One of my kids is doing a story about a mountain and a bird where the bird goes to the mountain every year to see if it's a suitable place to raise a family or not. Another is doing a story about her name. At Niitsuki one is doing a story on global warming effectively, and the other is doing the speech on organic fertilizer. The students, not surprisingly, all have the same pronunciation problems. They can't pronounce R, L, F, and TH. Some other problems they run into are S on the ends of words and trying to put vowels on the ends of words where they don't belong. Last year my kids did good, getting 1st in recitation, and 2nd and 3rd in composition. Hoping they do good again this year, that they all get some prize of sorts. They give prizes to the first 6 in recitation, and first 3 in composition. The top 2 in recitation and the top spot in composition get to go on to the prefectural competition. Go Jonan and Niitsuki!
Still trying to get a girlfriend, and still failing. It's hard to match up to the white guys here who are better looking and more interesting than I am. Don't really feel like giving up though. Even if I do become invisible to girls when I go hunting with the 2 white guys who really know how to kill it in that department, my friend said it best, "I only need one." Unfortunately that "one" is hard to come by.
彼女【かのじょ】 (kanojo) she; her; her; girl friend; girlfriend; sweetheart
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