I Forgot.
I couldn’t remember what I wanted to blog about the past few days. I knew I wanted too, but I couldn’t remember what about. I do remember now, and wish I hadn’t written these three sentences in buildup.
So on Wednesday I was having of laughter because all of my attention was drawn away from the children learning, and instead drawn to how much they erase. Sure they’re writing in a foreign language, sure they can’t spell, blah blah blah.
I timed them. In a class of 9, the stopwatch never made it past 10 seconds before an eraser was grabbed and a hushed whisper of, “Machigaita,” was heard (“Oops”). I was tickled by this and also tore the Japanese Teacher away from teaching as well to be mystified by the children’s erasing regularities.
See, that barely registers on the scale of interesting.
Lets lower the expectations further.
Today I was on a weird coffee high. For those of you who don’t know, I generally avoid caffeine. I do this because I suck at sleeping. Unfortunately avoiding caffeine makes me more prone to it when I do take it in.
When you have to teach 7 classes that are 15 minutes a piece and involve dancing and singing, you need caffeine. Trust me.
So anyway, I was a bit retarded on the juice and did ridiculous stuff all day.
I told the children to translate sentences like, “I must eat Mt. Fuji,” or, “I must lick a wall,” or, “I must drink a jacket.” I did this because I couldn’t be normal. The children were either completely freaked out in a good way, or freaked out in a bad way. Whichever the case was, I don’t think they’ll forget the grammar.
I said previously that my attention is completely given to my game project. This is unfortunately cutting off most of my interest in everything else. It simply has to get finished or else I won’t have any shot at all of getting a job in video games.
I have a graphics engine I am learning to use called Irrlicht. It will be more than what I need. I also downloaded a physics engine called Newton which I am not sure if I’ll need. Finally I have written one program to test game logic and such, and another to test usages of the aforementioned physics an graphics engine.
When I get pissed that nothing is working I either look at card magic stuff or work in Project Euler problems.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:40 pm by rl