Japan 6/13 (actual time unknown)
Aug. 19th, 2007 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukikageToday for some reason I'm feeling rather depressed about my performance as an A.C. again today. Again, I feel like I"m a good counselor to my はくちょう [Hakuchou] girls, but today during recreation I tried to go to the lobby and be active and outgoing, and I just sort of failed and gave up and went back to the はくちょう [Hakuchou] room where 絢子ちゃん [Ayako-chan] was studying. I can't neccesarily blame myself for not being able to strike up good conversation topics, but maybe introversion just isn't a good quality in ACs.
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Actually, I just got back from talking to 司 [Tsukasa, the JD (Japanese Director) of the camp], and she really helped to ease my mind. We did decided, however, that I would probably be the most "productive" (I couldn't think of the right word, and still can't) if I focus on identifying loner kids during rec times and spend time with them, and also that I should express some of my feelings at the next meeting (which happens to be tomorrow) in the hopes that they'll be able to support me a bit (help me think of good group activities, or not expect me to neccesarily be totally in synch when doing things as a group). [I never did, mainly because I decided it wasn't really anything anyone could or would want to help me with.
I'm going to think about what I want to talk about (and what I don't) as I take my bath and go to bed tonight. IN the mean time, a bit of a change of topic: perhaps my second culture shock? (My first was learnign that if you miss on what Larissa (or was it マイヤーさん [Maiyaa-san, a girl who was in first semester third year Japanese with me]?) called "squatty potties", you only have to mop it up with toilet paper.)
In any case,
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Actually, I just got back from talking to 司 [Tsukasa, the JD (Japanese Director) of the camp], and she really helped to ease my mind. We did decided, however, that I would probably be the most "productive" (I couldn't think of the right word, and still can't) if I focus on identifying loner kids during rec times and spend time with them, and also that I should express some of my feelings at the next meeting (which happens to be tomorrow) in the hopes that they'll be able to support me a bit (help me think of good group activities, or not expect me to neccesarily be totally in synch when doing things as a group). [I never did, mainly because I decided it wasn't really anything anyone could or would want to help me with.
I'm going to think about what I want to talk about (and what I don't) as I take my bath and go to bed tonight. IN the mean time, a bit of a change of topic: perhaps my second culture shock? (My first was learnign that if you miss on what Larissa (or was it マイヤーさん [Maiyaa-san, a girl who was in first semester third year Japanese with me]?) called "squatty potties", you only have to mop it up with toilet paper.)
In any case,