No Class on Wednesday

Today is the tenth day of the spring semester 2024. I don’t have a class on Wednesday, although I have to do a lot of work for teaching. I woke up 5a.m. today. These days I write a blog post before going to bed in previous night, and I upload the post right after I get up in the morning. Today too, I uploaded my yesterday’s draft in the early morning. I ate my breakfast which were leftover of the supper last night, washed my cloths by the washing machine, hung the wet clothes in my room to dry out them, and started working as usual.

Today, I had been making PPT slides for my conversation class. They were for teaching NA-adjectives. There are two types of adjectives in Japanese; one is I-adjectives and the other is NA-adjectives. It is quite difficult for Japanese learners to properly conjugate these two adjectives. My student, too, feel it very difficult. What they are doing is to avoid conjugation of I-adjectives as long as they can. But such an effort is just producing errors. When conjugation is unavoidable, they conjugate an I-adjectives as if it is a Na-adjectives.

At noon, I went outside. It seemed that spring had come already. The sun was shining and the sky was blue. Snow and ice on the pavement had almost gone. People’s winter clothes had become thinner and lighter than two weeks ago. I had my lunch in teacher’s cafeteria a little late because I didn’t like congestion by many teachers in lunch time. I got my one jacket and two trousers back from a laundry after lunch. Though I wanted to buy citrus fruits in a fruits shop, I just went into a supermarket and bought milk and Cola.

I don’t think I need to write about my afternoon today. It was just nap and PPT making.