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I'd just like to add that the graphs on here don't look like the ones on the Nike page :P

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Aight ...

So this last weekend I had my first semi-private with the couple that is friends with my co-worker’s aunt. Along with the couple I also helped their grand daughter with “travel English.” The main reason that asked my co-worker for help was because they like to travel and want to improve their English to better enjoy themselves in places like the US. Mostly I spent the lesson with ‘read and repeat’ exercises, but even so it wasn’t that boring. I have another lesson this Tuesday evening and we’ll see how that one goes.
Other than that I’m busy trying to enjoy my last few weeks in Japan. I have less than two months until I leave Himeji for at least 2 years (I won’t be done with grad school until the earliest June 2010.) I still haven’t heard from the UW although at the end of my interview they said I should hear by June 1st. I am very very nervous about the result.
As of this moment my intended last day of work is July 4th (ironic really that that is the day that I counted back to on my calendar). After that I want to travel around Japan a bit. Probably I will go to Tokyo for a week(ish) and maybe some shorter trips from Himeji (probably to Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Okayama and maybe a few other places). With June knocking on the door it seems so much more close, my date of departure, and I’m really beginning to stress. In anycase I’ll try and write another blog soon.

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Mega mini run before work.

Strange ...

So not a whole lot to report, but I did have something odd happen Friday. It was about 30 minutes before I left work and my fellow Japanese English teacher turned to me and told me that her aunt's friend wants to learn English. My thought was "good for her, why are you telling me this?" Then she goes on to ask when can I start. "Hold up a moment" flashes through my head. "When was it that I said I was looking for more work and what makes you think I would be a good teacher for this/these people, who I know nothing about including not knowing what their English level is?" In any case I have a private lesson with these two mysterious people this coming Tuesday evening. We shall see how it goes.

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Update

So not really much to update, but since I'm sure a complaint about my lack of posting is soon to be forthcoming I figured I'd posted anyway. The biggest news of the past week was on Thursday (Wednesday there) I had a phone interview with the UW for their Master's in Education program. MIT for short, sounds cooler that way anyway :). I think it went fairly well. It was about 30 minutes on the phone and they asked me various questions. The one question I'm not so sure I did well with was they asked me "With your background in science and math, why didn't you apply to the secondary ed. program and specialize?" My answer was that I was an ace at both those subjects in high school, but when I hit college I felt my grades slipped and so rather than apply for a secondary ed position and have poor scores in my specialty I went elementary ed. Anyway, not much else to report. Hope all is well back home and I'll see you (whoever you may be) in a few months maybe.

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A little mind clearing run before my interview.

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New training plan this week. Two shorter runs in a day instead of one medium length in the afternoon only.

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This is the big 1000 mile run. My log has me at 1004.52 miles today.

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