math tutoring > ESL tutoring

[tsukikage]

I got to do one-on-one math tutoring today helping a woman with long division. She had a lot of trouble (she still doesn't have her ones digit times tables anywhere near down, so she has to draw circles or use a chart), but by the end of the two hours she had done a number of problems with single-digit divisors by herself. (I also led her through one problem with a two-digit divisor, but decided she really wasn't ready to do those on her own.)
Funny story - I actually skipped 4th grade math, but that was the year we learned long division, so my step-dad actually taught me how to do long division. :) Roger really is a wonderful guy.
I'm really starting to love "Beautiful World" even more since I went through the lyrics today.
僕の世界消えるまで会えぬなら
君の側で眠らせて　どんな場所でも結構
Beautiful world
儚く過ぎて行く日々の中で
Beautiful boy
気分のムラは仕方ないね
(To Japanese-speaking peeps on my f-list, how would you translate 「気分のムラは仕方ないね」? "I guess there's no helping mood swings"?)
Toki o Kakeru Shoujo is going to be screened in a grand total of three theaters in the U.S.: one in Los Angeles, one in New York, and one in Seattle. Bandai, you suck! Oh well, I at least hope this means the DVD will be coming out soon-ish.

If I had a check for 8.7 million dollars? I'd put all but 100,000 in an account I can't access for 5 years while I think out how to not spend it stupidly and use the rest to put myself through college (in a dorm).
And I wouldn't go around telling everyone about how I have lots of money now. ^^;

Comments

[akibare.livejournal.com]

I think it's good, as a gut reaction.

Funny, a google group I lurk on for translators had a thread about ムラ and the precise words for it as print bloopers, which was interesting. But yeah, unevenness, so I think "mood swings" is probably pretty good. Better than I could probably come up with :)

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

"a thread about ムラ and the precise words for it as print bloopers"
huh?

[akibare.livejournal.com]

In printing, there is unevenness, which is ムラ in Japanese, but there are various terms for that, in English. 斑 is the original word, anyway. Areas are thick and others not, etc.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I'd never heard of that.

[belindabird.livejournal.com]

I've heard that the Tokikake DVD is probably coming out this fall. Don't quote me on that, though.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up. :)