Students are busy preparing for midterms, which largely cuts me out of this week's schedule. My time has been mostly mine to fill. I fill the time with Japanese studying and focusing on working my speech students.
I usually meet them at the end of the day and I am currently drilling them, trying to make sure their speeches are memorized. This has been an arduous process; I can't imagine how difficult it is to memorize a speech in a foreign language, but my students have plowed right ahead, and though they're both still a little rocky, we've started to work on gestures and some actual acting.
Sometimes the process is frustrating. I want them to just "get it," but I can't expect them to. It's difficult for me to ask them to take it slowly because I want to get to the next part of the of the process and it's obvious they want as well. But taking it slowly is the way to go, and I admire their determination.
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