Japanese Class
Right now I am an unofficial T.A. for the Japanese level 1 at McGill University. I don't do much, I just basically attend the class and when the students work on exercises, I try to help out and explain some grammar. It's not much but it's a good beginning and it's fun! For a while I had an individual student that I was tutoring on the side on top of that, but unfortunately he had to quit the class. I was a bit sad, but he said he still wants to learn Japanese very much so maybe I'll tutor him a little bit before I leave.
Anyways. This Japanese class has seriously brought a lot of fun into my life. I am motivated every morning to wake up more or less early everyday and review Japanese grammar and Kanji. I remember one by one all the little hardships I had to go through to learn Japanese at this level, and how fun it was to realize I understood something... There are times when I feel so satisfied with my Japanese... but when I take this class, I feel like keep studying harder and push myself so that I can help out the students. I think this is somewhat a good preparation for Korea, since when I go in a month, I'll get training to teach English and then I'll be left on my own into a school full of grade schoolers. I am getting really excited about it.
On a different note, Shima sensei the official T.A for the class has asked me to not cheer for Germany at the World Cup cuz he bet 50 bucks that they would win. lol I guess he really believed it when I said that whichever team I cheer for loses. He's a nice guy so maybe I'll cheer for the Netherlands. :P
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