I'm really disappointed in the conversation class that I have as an elective on Thursdays. For one, the practice is really week due to the fact that they mixed absolute beginners in with intermediate and advanced students. More important than that is the teacher. She is an absolute push over and the students talk constantly through out the class in their own language instead of Japanese. Even when she's asking people to repeat after her no one says anything at all. Most of the time I just stared at her and made eye contact so she would know I was listening but I get the impression that she thinks I'm either shy or not understanding the uber-noob material she is handing out.
A bigger disappointment than that was the morning lessons with Okumura sensei. She was explaining the meaning of 目立つ (medatsu) which basically means to stand out. At first she lead into it by saying that my class was popular among the teachers and for one reason or another we stood out as a whole. But to narrow the point down she said that three of us stood out in particular, all the teachers knew our names, and for whatever reason all of the people in question were guys. To make it more "fun" she wanted us to guess who stood out, everyone in the class said me. Of course, right? The school has a bajillion Asians but I can count the Americans on one hand literally.
Sadly, that isn't the case. For whatever reason she says I don't stand out at all. The guys who stood out were two Hong Kong guys and one of the Taiwanese guys. One guy is in love with anime and brings toys to class, so sure that stands out in a bad way. The other guy has a terrible accent... accent doesn't really describe it well. It's more like he's trying to talk with a male reproductive organ stuffed in his mouth. That image is courtesy of his fashion sense which he seemed to get from the all girl orphanage he was raised in. (Exaggeration) But seriously, something is missing in the guys up bringing if he can go shopping and walk away with a shirt that has blaze pink lettering with sparkles and never figure out that he wandered away from the men's clothing department... if he ever started there in the first place.
The last guy to stand out among all the teachers was a guy who ran fast. Yep. He ran fast during the softball thingy. I think it really highlights just how egotistical I am that just hearing that I didn't stand out has caused me so much discomfort. Well, because of that I'm studying and working out more than I have been since it seems like I obviously set my goals too low before.
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