I THINK last week's classes went OK.
(I'm listening to Grouper's amazingly beautiful and dark The Man Who Died in His Boat album on Youtube... so if now I think classes in the bright sun of October were OK, then maybe they really were!) I told the culture class I have an Election Addiction for the 2016 US presidential election that's been getting worse and worse the closer November 8 (election day) comes. I concluded the African American unit in the first year introduction to American Culture and Literature class (terrible history, wonderful strength, big influence, great literature) and started the American Newspaper Comics and Calvin and Hobbes unit (they gotta like that stuff!). I had another seminar (getting the kids talking about the Christmas and Sundays chapters of Little House in the Big Woods). I had my Sports majors finish their short speeches in front of the class, and they were funny and did pretty well, really, with eye contact and some gestures and warm smiles. I had my Conversation class discuss our Bone graphic novel for the first time, and I THINK it will be OK (though they sure use lots of Japanese whenever I'm not nearby...) AND my graduate school classes were fine, really. Sheryl (my Chinese PhD student) is preparing to give a paper at a conference a week from tomorrow, so we practiced that with my colleague Sonoda Sensei's great big help. So, maybe it was all OK! And just ten more weeks of classes to go-- see you next Saturday (I might go to a Fukuoka U football game against a rival Fukuoka university...)
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