Without ceremony, I checked my answers one last time and turned in the last section of my final exam, thus ending my first semester here. I’m pretty confident that I did well overall on the final, about what I could have hoped. I was told that we’d be given a chance to review the graded [...]
Level 3 Finished
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Approaching
I usually try to tie together my posts with some sort of central theme, but I’m going to throw that out the window because I’ve got some disconnected things to cover. Although I worried a fair deal about the oral exam, it went better than I could have hoped. The teacher basically asked a bunch [...]
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The week before the final stretch of the first half
This is the last full week for the American students who are just staying for the summer. They will take their final exam on Tuesday, and a lot of those who I’ve talked to are leaving Japan on Wednesday. The actual final exam is on the 25th. Once again, I say that I would be [...]
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Continuing on
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to say about school. It’s still going on, we’re trucking through at the same pace we’ve been going, it’s still not boring. Fukumoto-sensei’s replacement, Hosoi-sensei, turns out to be a pretty cool person. She lived in Italy for a long time and is fluent in Italian. It doesn’t matter [...]
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KCP evaluates me
Note: I’m still on my vacation, and I wrote this post before I left and had it automatically post at this time. I figure after I’ve been giving over a month of my critiques on the KCP program, they deserve to have their go at me. Being midterms, there were two opportunities to get feedback [...]
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