Day 41

Today starts "the second half" of many things: most pertinent to the time being, Term B; of secondary importance, my time here at Yamasa; thirdly, and of somewhat heavy importance, though not necessarily to the present, my 7 straight academic quarters.  I can only say that it's time to keep doing what I'm doing, maybe do a little bit more, and just be prepared for "SD"ing and classes next year.

Classes went as expected, except that my sensei always seems to call on me when I'm going to get something incorrect.  It's probably something she does on purpose, and if it is, she's doing a great job to belittle us.  Sure, education rests on fixing errors and learning new concepts, but if you know that you're going to get something incorrect and be laughed at for it, you really lose the will to even participate anymore.  At least this term ends Friday, and I'll hopefully be out of her class for good.

For the first time, I managed to make a sub-par dinner: it was far too salty.  I guess that I'll just refrain from using either extra salt or soy sauce next time.  The real problem was that it was excellent at the beginning, and then a bit unbearable at the end.  Here are the ingredients to make it correctly if you're interested:

-one skinned and diced tomato

-two diced onion stalks

-160 grams of ground beef

-2 cloves of garlic, diced

-2 tsp. extra virgin olive oil

-salt to taste

-a pinch of the following: basil, oregano, roast onion, paprika

Cook all of this down and then spread/pour it on top of a bed of noodles.  Tasty, if you make it correctly.