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Dec. 3rd, 2010 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI had a nice meeting with admissions and advising people at UW-Parkside today. I got a readmission form from admissions and then went over to advising where I got Subway for lunch and worked on Japanese during the couple of hours 'till my appointment.
I talked to the advisor a little about why I want to go into anthropology and ended up showing her some of my pictures on her computer. She told me she wants to introduce me to a professor who has a lot of the same interests and is also a photographer, so I jotted his name down. We talked about doing a follow up appointment to decide on classes once I get enrolled. Since I'm living in Chicago right now, she suggested Thursday evenings; I said that I have a Japanese class on Thursdays. "You're going to have such a culture shock when you move back to Kenosha!" she said. I agreed; I'm really going to miss the city a lot. But I mentioned my thought of transferring to Madison in a year or so too and she thought that might be good.
Anyway, I proceeded back to admissions to turn in my filled out form. Unfortunately I was silly enough to actually fill in information about the other schools I've attended on it, which means I now await New Horizons in Troy, Michigan to send a letter or transcript or something to Parkside that basically says 'He was here and doesn't owe us any money'. I left them a voice mail before I left the building and will follow up with them on Monday. *sigh*
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Class this past Thursday was great. I didn't miss too much work on kanji; just an introduction to how to read the entries in our kanji book, which I already had a grasp of, having read about the difference between on-yomi and kun-yomi. We covered up to about where I'd gotten to in the workbook in the couple of days before, so that worked out well. And I now have six pages of an actual Japaense book to read and work on before next week! It has such elegant and complex sentences as ”あさ に なりました” (Morning came) ”まさおさん と はなこさん が おきました” (Masao and Hanako [children's names] woke up.) But it's a real Japanese book and I feel rather proud of being able to make it through it, however haltingly.
Possibly equally neat was an experience as I got to the door of the Japan American Society suite. I met a Japanese man coming out the door as I got there.
”すみません” (excuse me) I said.
”どうぞ” (go ahead) he replied.
”ありがとう” (thank you) I responded as I made a slight bow and walked through the door.
That was cool. I wonder how many more classes I can get in before my probable return to school in Wisconsin in the Fall.
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Well, I'm going to write a follow up email to the advisor I talked to, then fill out my FAFSA app so I can get the results back and then follow up with them about my being laid-off in January.
I talked to the advisor a little about why I want to go into anthropology and ended up showing her some of my pictures on her computer. She told me she wants to introduce me to a professor who has a lot of the same interests and is also a photographer, so I jotted his name down. We talked about doing a follow up appointment to decide on classes once I get enrolled. Since I'm living in Chicago right now, she suggested Thursday evenings; I said that I have a Japanese class on Thursdays. "You're going to have such a culture shock when you move back to Kenosha!" she said. I agreed; I'm really going to miss the city a lot. But I mentioned my thought of transferring to Madison in a year or so too and she thought that might be good.
Anyway, I proceeded back to admissions to turn in my filled out form. Unfortunately I was silly enough to actually fill in information about the other schools I've attended on it, which means I now await New Horizons in Troy, Michigan to send a letter or transcript or something to Parkside that basically says 'He was here and doesn't owe us any money'. I left them a voice mail before I left the building and will follow up with them on Monday. *sigh*
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Class this past Thursday was great. I didn't miss too much work on kanji; just an introduction to how to read the entries in our kanji book, which I already had a grasp of, having read about the difference between on-yomi and kun-yomi. We covered up to about where I'd gotten to in the workbook in the couple of days before, so that worked out well. And I now have six pages of an actual Japaense book to read and work on before next week! It has such elegant and complex sentences as ”あさ に なりました” (Morning came) ”まさおさん と はなこさん が おきました” (Masao and Hanako [children's names] woke up.) But it's a real Japanese book and I feel rather proud of being able to make it through it, however haltingly.
Possibly equally neat was an experience as I got to the door of the Japan American Society suite. I met a Japanese man coming out the door as I got there.
”すみません” (excuse me) I said.
”どうぞ” (go ahead) he replied.
”ありがとう” (thank you) I responded as I made a slight bow and walked through the door.
That was cool. I wonder how many more classes I can get in before my probable return to school in Wisconsin in the Fall.
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Well, I'm going to write a follow up email to the advisor I talked to, then fill out my FAFSA app so I can get the results back and then follow up with them about my being laid-off in January.
