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So, the assignment was "Draw a picture that shows something familiar with new uses." but it was phrased better. If you are familiar with Doraemon it was similar to asking them to draw an object or environment all tricked-out with great gadgets, like an Anywhere Door or a Beanie-hat-helicopter...or drawing the house that has everything.

The best part is that when they turned in the drawings they had to explain them to me. What with the nature of the drawings and my Japanese level, this was deliciously surreal.For example, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to decipher the relationship between the banana and the ninja in one of the pictures even if I was perfectly fluent!

The featured drawing of the week )


 

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So, the assignment was "Draw a picture that shows something familiar with new uses." but it was phrased better. If you are familiar with Doraemon it was similar to asking them to draw an object or environment all tricked-out with great gadgets, like an Anywhere Door or a Beanie-hat-helicopter...or drawing the house that has everything.

The best part is that when they turned in the drawings they had to explain them to me. What with the nature of the drawings and my Japanese level, this was deliciously surreal.For example, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to decipher the relationship between the banana and the ninja in one of the pictures even if I was perfectly fluent!

The featured drawing of the week )


 

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Just so we're all on the same page here and don't think I am being modest about the tissue-paper-art.

(click here to see the work of Buggirl, age 29, four years of formal training)

Ok?

I am too tired to update tonight...maybe I'll get a second wind later. For those of you who know the Japanese school system this quick explanation of why I am knackered will help. I have learned more about my schedule. Every other week I am an English teacher (with an average of 4 classes a day) where I work with a Japanese teacher while I am learning...the weeks that I'm not an English teacher I am an assistant homeroom teacher. On those days I rotate through all (6) of the 1st grade and second grade classes, helping the teacher. Today I helped Grade 1, Class 1 for all periods... Tomorrow I am an assistant for Grade 1, Class 2...And mind you, on these days we don't study English...we study everything else.

My flashcards are getting weirder and weirder : turnip, dinosaur, spaceship, plant/sew...and I just know I'm gonna have to learn all those fucking Pokemon.

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Just so we're all on the same page here and don't think I am being modest about the tissue-paper-art.

(click here to see the work of Buggirl, age 29, four years of formal training)

Ok?

I am too tired to update tonight...maybe I'll get a second wind later. For those of you who know the Japanese school system this quick explanation of why I am knackered will help. I have learned more about my schedule. Every other week I am an English teacher (with an average of 4 classes a day) where I work with a Japanese teacher while I am learning...the weeks that I'm not an English teacher I am an assistant homeroom teacher. On those days I rotate through all (6) of the 1st grade and second grade classes, helping the teacher. Today I helped Grade 1, Class 1 for all periods... Tomorrow I am an assistant for Grade 1, Class 2...And mind you, on these days we don't study English...we study everything else.

My flashcards are getting weirder and weirder : turnip, dinosaur, spaceship, plant/sew...and I just know I'm gonna have to learn all those fucking Pokemon.

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I don't care how fucking talented you are or how much you may have spent on a private art school, if armed only with water, laundry starch, tissue paper, and a mat board...you ain't gonna make something an elementary school kid couldn't make! I don't care what you're thinking...you can't use those scissors! The only tissue shapes are those you can tear, fold, or twist...

Making a sample was a humbling experience, probably more humbling than teaching the class will be.

And being lavishly praised by a room full of elementary school teachers for the final product may be one of the more surreal experiences of my life. I'm not being modest...my Olympic Flashcards are looking pretty good in comparison.

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I don't care how fucking talented you are or how much you may have spent on a private art school, if armed only with water, laundry starch, tissue paper, and a mat board...you ain't gonna make something an elementary school kid couldn't make! I don't care what you're thinking...you can't use those scissors! The only tissue shapes are those you can tear, fold, or twist...

Making a sample was a humbling experience, probably more humbling than teaching the class will be.

And being lavishly praised by a room full of elementary school teachers for the final product may be one of the more surreal experiences of my life. I'm not being modest...my Olympic Flashcards are looking pretty good in comparison.

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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!"
parasitegirl: (Default)
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!"

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