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[parasitegirl]

Tomorrow, at work, I will put on my new, cheap, apron and mix together equal amounts of water and laundry starch to make paste. Then I will tear colored tissue into shapes, dip them into the paste, and twist, wad, fold or do whatever to the until they are ready to be stuck to a piece of illustration board…when I have something that truly exhibits the feeling of spring and summer flowers I will let it dry and then attach (with two pieces of adhesive tape) a string to the board in order to hang it.

This is in preparation for Thursday and my first non-English class. I’m not teaching 5th and 6th grade art anymore, they changed the schedule…two hours a week of first graders, baby. Anything they can read, I can read toooooo (Well, I can read Kanji, but they have a larger, if not basic, vocabulary.)

I also have a small pile of vocabulary cards for myself…so that I can explain everything in Japanese if need be. Illustration board, twist, paste, laundry starch, tear, soak (in water) dilute (with water) some of the vocabulary cards have sample sentences for class like, Tear: Tear the tissue paper into the shapes you want. And some cards have sample sentences for my daily life like, Dilute; He drinks his Whisky straight.

I’ll be a stunning conversationalist in a few months, "I do not like your face, I want to rip it into small peices, maybe red ones." "Not only is there meat in the sauce, but it tastes like laundry paste!" "Bastard diluted my coffee!"

Comments

[kimuchi.livejournal.com]

Eek, I'd be terrified. I always felt like little kids don't really speak Japanese but instead speak some sort of alien proto-Japanese cradle language.

[parasitegirl.livejournal.com]

Well, all the better to totally fuck with my speach patterns, ne?