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Post by Hauskaz on Sept 5, 2008 21:34:55 GMT -5
Okay;
so I was walking home from Patrick's house. I was walking along the outfield of some baseball diamond, and there were two other people walking right in front of me, speaking some other language.
One of them farted incredibly loud right in my face, and then continued talking.
I sped up and passed them as quickly as I could. As soon as they noticed that I was there, he immediately stopped talking. I continued to put myself far ahead of them, and once I did, I bursted out laughing.
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Post by solocityElectricCyan on Sept 5, 2008 22:39:01 GMT -5
Why do amazing things always happen when I ditch you?
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Post by Duvet on Sept 5, 2008 23:25:27 GMT -5
rofl
Now I'm curious about what language they were speaking in and what the hell they were talking about.
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Post by hellomeow on Sept 5, 2008 23:32:40 GMT -5
lame. You guys went to Patrick's without me  |
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Post by solocityElectricCyan on Sept 5, 2008 23:41:31 GMT -5
well, if you had engineering with us, you probably would have been there as well.
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Post by Hauskaz on Sept 5, 2008 23:52:41 GMT -5
Danny rallied. Patrick was initially not expected to even be part of anything.
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Post by solocityElectricCyan on Sept 6, 2008 11:26:12 GMT -5
yeah, the same thing would've happened to mohamdu
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Post by hellomeow on Sept 7, 2008 16:46:32 GMT -5
:/ Fuck I need to switch courses. 4th period English is so worthless.
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Post by Hauskaz on Sept 7, 2008 16:47:34 GMT -5
English is a mandatory course though.
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Post by hellomeow on Sept 7, 2008 16:48:18 GMT -5
... actually on second thought any period English is worthless, rofl.
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Post by hellomeow on Sept 7, 2008 16:50:20 GMT -5
It shouldn't be. I can speak English and write essays fine, which is why I get 90s in the course and don't learn anything; it's worthless. I'd be much better off studying a language that I didn't know (Japanese courses in high school would be so badass, and it would be nice to study in a non-autodidactic setting.
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Post by hellomeow on Sept 7, 2008 16:51:27 GMT -5
lol missing parenthesis )
lol triple post.
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Post by Duvet on Sept 8, 2008 0:33:02 GMT -5
They have Japanese courses in the US at some high schools apparently.
I know this 14 year old black guy on FFR that is currently taking it. He recently learned how to count from 1 to 99 in Japanese, rofl.
But thing is, it's only Japanese basics so I don't know if you'd really want to take a course for that. It's not hard to learn the basics on your own but most likely they offer higher level Japanese courses or something at those schools.
Still, pretty badass though.
I'd much rather become a transfer student in Japan though.
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Post by hellomeow on Sept 8, 2008 9:25:17 GMT -5
Well, there is a transfer student program at University of Waterloo. Since I'll probably be going there and they have partnerships with Japanese universities, I could be able to get into a transfer program into a Japanese university provided that I payed for my own plane ticket. It would be expensive as hell, considering that I would probably have to pay for a dorm room or an apartment as well (Japanese living expenses are apparently one of the economy's downsides) and I'd be living on campus, but the cool part is that whatever I decide to study (probably math, physics, computer science etc.) would all contribute to my credits. I just hope I can handle Japanese instruction by the time that that can happen :/
I have heard similar stories about Japanese courses being offered in Japan. I already know how to count to 1-99, hell I already know how to count to one to ten million as of right now. I probably wouldn't benefit from that, but it sure beats the shit out of having to pay for something extra-curricular like Saturday school or something of that accord.
One cool thing I noticed about Japan is that there are actually quite a few institutes that offer Japanese lessons in English instruction, along with a few buildings that were marked as being Chinese language schools. Again, you would probably have to pay. I am thinking that the best thing to do might also be after getting a bachelor's degree in college, to enter the JET Program. A girl I talked to in California while in Japan told me that she had been working as an English teacher thanks to the JET program for about a year; she had been granted access to various Japanese courses, but apparently she never bothered completely any of them: she claimed to have no literacy outside of a few kanji ("I know uh... WEDNESDAY... and uh... water... and uh... fire... and uh, exit, and um... that's about it.") and she apparently can't communicate with people there outside of hand gestures. Go figure.
Also I think the intentional topic of this thread has been completely derailed.
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Post by Hauskaz on Sept 8, 2008 22:10:49 GMT -5
That's what XF is all about. Ask Kuldeep, Patrick, Samantha or anyone else who has ever contributed to this phenomenon.
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