Raining

Rain.

At this rate, the world will be consumed by a flood. If not the world, Wellington at least. The newspaper says that it is going to keep raining because of an enormous low or something or other. Perhaps it is the same in Palmerston North. There is an upside though! I get to wear my new jacket. Beautiful colour. Keeps me dry. Perfect :)

Now that all my assignments are done, I must focus on the million I have in Japanese. I'm getting through the draft for my writing assignment at the moment. There was a famous author in Japan called Natsumi Souseki (I think?) and he wrote a series of short stories called 10 dreams (or something like that). Our writing task is accordingly based on this - we have to write about a dream starting with "この夢を見た" (This is the dream I had - sounds nicer in Japanese) and ending with "その時目が覚めた" (and then I woke up).

After much deliberation, I'm writing mine as if I had a dream in which I am paralysed and all I can do is open my eyes. It's quite emotionally intense, so hopefully i'm able to convey that in Japanese.

Then Ryan and I will start working on our conversation tonight.

In POLS today we had our last guest speaker - The Minister of Foreign Affairs whose name I don't know how to spell. He's also the minister for the rugby world cup though. His talk was fairly interesting but it was cut short when a fire alarm went off. I don't know whether or not it was the real deal - there was no smoke or anything - but it stopped the lecture.

Love Erin