So I've decided to destroy the internet. All of it. I will chew one cable at a time, break one fiber-optic, snap one wire, disable one satellite in my quest for total darkness. Sorry if you liked the internet. But that's the way it's going to be.
Reality exists in 1 place at a time only. Only God can leap from one place to the next.
I need omnipresence. That would be helpful.
I think I'm going to go offline for awhile. I'm going to erase my English databank in every moment that I don't need to speak it for official work hours where I'm getting paid. I'm telling everyone from now on that I'm from Norway and I don't speak any English. Thanks for the idea, Pat.
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This blog was interrupted by this chat with Pat:
Pat
Hey Luther
How's life
2:35amLuther
hello?
2:35amPat
How are you man
2:35amLuther
ok
up and down
yeah
it's crazy
2:35amPat
You're still in Japan right?
2:35amLuther
life's crazy
yeah
2:36amPat
Thats good
2:37amLuther
or good that I'm in Japan?
are you there?
2:38amPat
Both I think
Sorry I'm in Honduras right now teaching English and I have a ton to do at the same time
2:38amLuther
ah
Honduras
How many classes do you teach ina week?
2:38amPat
Yeah its awesome
4 middle school classes everyday
2:39amLuther
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wow, crazy
how many lesson plans per week is that?
2:40amPat
But its good man.
Only 1
2:40amLuther
at least that's good
what do you do with your free time?
2:41amPat
I pretty much teach the same thing to each class. Which can get tedious for me but I've learned some REALLY awesome English-Learning songs
2:44amPat
How about you?
2:46amLuther
ah - I don't know
I dont' know what's happening
2:46amPat
Really?
2:46amLuther
I kind of just swim through space for a few hours
then I'm back at school
2:46amPat
Nice
How's your japonese?
2:47amLuther
I'm blinded, reminded, I reflect, reject...
I dont' know what I'm doing here
sometimes I freak out
other times I think I could stay forever
2:48amPat
I honestly think that is pretty normal for anyone living abroad
2:48amLuther
I'm approaching 1 year, Pat
2:48amPat
Yeah!!
2:48amLuther
3 1/2 weeks shy of 1 year
2:49amPat
I can't imagine that. Ive done a 5 month stint and now am on a 2 month one, and I still really struggle
2:49amLuther
Yeah, I've done 2 5 month stints
in a row
My Japanese is crap
I'm trying
and I'm learning
but slowly
Everyone always demands English out of me all the time
even in my private, after school life
2:50amPat
Yeah I know how that is
2:50amLuther
"will you speak English with my son?"
"will you volunteer at this English conversation class?"
2:50amPat
I eventually started telling people I was german.
2:50amLuther
"will you give me private lessons?"
"NO!
"
WE'RE IN FRICKIN JAPAN!!!
when do I get to learn how to live here?
Even when I say, in perfect Japanese, "mou skoshi yukuri kantan ni itte kudasai masenka"
they freakin start talking in English
no
don't speak English
just use simple Japanese
I speak simple English
I'm kind to you
I pick out words I know you understand
just scale it back a bit
don't speak English
I want to learn
Yeah, I'm wiggin out right now
sorry
2:53amPat
No that's ok
I know what its like to need to vent man
2:54amLuther
You know what my prospects are of meeting a nice, English speaking, Christian girl out here?
2:54amPat
Probably about as good as the brewers winning the world series
2:54amLuther
the answer is zero
I might have well as signed up to be a catholic priest
2:56amLuther
each time I sign another 1 year contract, I'm saying that I'm quite interested in extending the age that I get married by 1 more year
1 comment:
So you're leaving the internet because you think that you wont learn Japanese if you don't, and by expanding your Japanese horizon you will meet the woman of your dreams that you can finally speak to? Ok:)But I was thinking you should be happy with the people you've got and don't worry about trying to make things happen. I'm not sure you were saying the internet isn't reality but I've heard other claims of that ( someone said the people in porn on the internet aren't real, and I was like wtf, that's ridiculous, it's just an excuse). Anyway, you can love everybody, and some day when you're ready you'll have what you've always wanted.
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