Breathing Again
The beginning of the semester has just about killed me. Being short-staffed, teaching the two-week intensive ’survival Japanese’ course - while creating homework, tests, and quizzes for it, coordinating the area studies, giving feedback on the dozens of papers already submitted, answering students questions, dealing with administrative difficulties, and trouble-shooting the computers and printers at the center has added up to 15hr work days (including weekends) and little room for anything else. I am hoping that this week marks a return to a more ‘normal’ sort of exisitence. Time to take the jembe up into the mountain and breathe the ki-rich air.
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