Sunday 23rd Feb
By Oli
At 10:40 AM · Saturday, 22 February · 2003
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Saturday…
involved getting up early and driving to Taki, to teach little kids. Wow, there’s a couple of two year olds in the class! I thought it was from 3 upward ;-)
After that I headed home and saw a cool chat show on NZ - Miwa really likes Pukekos. The presenter had a great job - travelling to cool places and being filmed doing interesting things there. A professional tourist!
Finally I got my friend Tonko up and running on IM chat! Now I can chat in Japanese with someone interested in design - woop!! I promised to make her a map to my apartment today though, hope I don’t run outta time!
Sunday…
is damn fantastic so far - sunny and warm, plus a coffee = feeling great! I’m to meet Sayuri (a new private student) around lunch, then Miwa and I are having some people over tonight. Should be fun!
We also managed to trim the trees a little this morning, and the view of the sea has become infinitely better. As Miwa would say Waoau!
;-)
Sayuri came round and I had a good talk to her. She wants to start soon but prepaid with another language school. She seems pretty nice.
Miwa’s friend Nadine hurt her leg so the small party tonight got postponed. It seems she’s injured but ok - better than the potential broken leg we wondered about. I hope it gets better soon!
Tonko came round anyhow and had dinner with us. She also showed her web portfolio. Miwa’s trying to get me two large portal site commissions locally, and Tonko plus some of her friends might help out. I had lots of fun talking about web design. Her stuff is really nice, but not being made with knowledge of code or W3 was lacking some of the present ideals in coding (little things like charset, which still really screws up browsers). It’d be great to work with her!
Finally I set up NetNewsWire, an RSS feed reader for MacOS X. I’m finding it even more addictive than the Radio Userland one, which was the whole drive behind my first (non-event of a) weblog (for a free one month, sorry but I’m broke!). RSS feeds have completely changed my interaction with news, the web, and TV too (I’ll write more on that later). It’s good!
