It's been a busy past couple of days. We started language classes and then we've had lectures "lectures". They were actually pretty interesting! One of them was a talk by an space guy, and wow Japanese presentations are amazing! They have all these stories, anecdotes, and examples that really put you in their shoes. I also think the emphasis on seeing relationships and how things connect together really shows up in their presentations. They also have the cutest animations to illustrate their ideas. Here's an example:
This wasn't the cutest one, but I was too embarrassed to take out my camera during the one I wanted to take a picture of. :( Basically he talked about these space crafts they made to investigate the start of the solar system, but they lost contact with the craft and they were sad. Lol, he made this video of the space craft floating in space with this overlay of sad music and this sad Japanese female voice saying in Japanese, "We miss you. We are waiting for you." And then apparently they heard a faint signal from the craft a year later, and they had to teach it to recognize their system again, and he likened it to baby talk and had the cutest pictures of a mother and her baby. Awesome. Best space lecture ever.
Oh last story about this guy. So when they lost the spacecraft or some other thing that went wrong that he told us about, he put up a big box in the middle of the slide saying, "Don't think it's unlucky. It's our blame! This is due to our immaturity. We must analyze the issues and conjugate for next time." And he explained each line. It was awesome. I wish I had gotten a picture of that.
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