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Just had a student not know how a compass on a map works

disruptive student: [reading] ちいさい　レストラン　で………す。 I had my mouse in the way, sorry.

??????

This guy can't be real

Like I know he can be and he is but he can't be real

We also had a classic 'someone comes into his room so he shouts 'GET OUT OF HERE!!''

Teacher apparently got COVID from her husband, which is a real bummer what with the broken leg

i am entranced by the events unfolding

"It's just because I'm interested in excelling in Japanese, I want to go above and beyond"

bruh

We have an assignment to write a short essay in Japanese

"I wanted to ask is it okay if I do an extra assignment on top of the other one where I use vocabulary from my own knowledge and you could like help me grade it 'cause I wanna get better"

Okay! Class was mostly kanji reading practice -- we went over homework and then did some exercises on understanding directions, and then some general reading comprehension. Homework tomorrow will be an essay about 'my favourite restaurant' using vocabulary and grammar from the previous six chapters in the textbook, and a quiz on chapter 6, presumably we'll start chapter 7 next week. It went well, I was able to understand and read/answer everything I was called on for, partially thanks to going over the material before class and making notes for myself

The teacher let us out about thirty minutes early, and then I got everything set up to stream Egg Fried Rice for Erika and Dave! That was fun -- it's a silly little indie horror game about needing to get food before you go to bed, but there's no food in your house so you drive to the chinese place to get some Egg Fried Rice and then a man tries to kill you. Standard urban stalker horror kind of stuff, but there's a lot of little touches and choices you can make, like you can just go to bed immediately upon starting the game even though you're hungry, at which point you get fired from your job for being poorly rested and then you drive your friends and family away by whining too much about being unemployed. It had much more content than I expected it to, so we played for like an hour and a half?

After that I went to see what ash was doing, and he was halfway through a movie so I sat down and watched the rest of it with him while I ate dinner. That was Clickbait: Unfollowed, I think was the title? Which is a Saw/Squidgames-esque horror comedy about a bunch of influencers being locked in a house and having to do challenges to avoid being eliminated/killed. When I went out there a guy was being forced to run on a treadmill with spikes behind him, until he of course couldn't run anymore and got flung backwards onto the spikes. It was pretty funny and had some decently creative deaths. There's a netflix series called Clickbait that we thought this might have been related to in some way, but on further research I don't think it is, which is good because ash says he watched at least part of it but doesn't remember anything about it so it's clearly not as good as the movie.

Anyway, that of course brought us to bedtime for ash, so I'm back in my room now and probably going to spend the night playing more 999 2. Tomorrow I will be responsible and get more stuff done

Some more adventures in google translate weirdness

I'm working on my My Favourite Restaurant essay

 
リヨンスがありませんです、でもありますでした。= riyonsu ga arimasen desu, demo arimasu deshita. Word by word, this is "riyonsu (<-subject) exist-not does, but exist did", or, what I'm trying for: "Lyon's doesn't exist, but it did".

You'll note that absolutely none of these words have anything to do with whether or not I think something to be true! "riyonsu ga arimasen desu" is a statement of fact, Lyon's does not exist. So where the heck is Google getting "I don't think there is a Lyon's"???

If I remove the surrounding sentences we get

 
So there's something about "My favourite restaurant is Lyon's" (and "My favourite restaurant was Lyon's", which I tried switching it to), and/or "I often used to go there with my mom", which is causing google to think that I need to be more unsure about my statements. It also keeps trying to translate "リヨンス" (ri-yo-n-su) into "Lyonnais", which, uh.