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Helping
I’m not quite sure how I feel about today. On the one hand, it started out really well. I got up nice and early, studied for an hour and did some handwriting practise and then had a class with LQ from 7:00 to 8:00am. We studied the first half of an idiom which is about…
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Advisors
On the one hand I am reasonably competent. I am taking on a series of jobs and activities around the house and garden which are both novel to me and reasonably challenging and require some tools and effort and thinking. On the other, I don’t feel very organised at all. When my friend D visits,…
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Reply to me
So “Yesterday Gareth” gave “Today Gareth” the task of writing a song and we are going to try and take a very open approach to this. We’re not going to spend a lot of time, we’re going to try and get it done in just a few minutes, which means we need to pick a…
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Loop
There are some tasks I feel reasonably comfortable doing, equally there are lots of things where I feel less comfortable. I think this discomfort flows from feeling I don’t know what to do or how, or that there’s an expectation about the level at which I’ll perform a task, either held by myself or by…
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听写练习
I’ve been learning some dialogues, and although I’ve gotten reasonably good at learning characters and their meanings and how to read them, two of the things I’m still not very good at are remembering how to write them. And how to learn a dialogue. 你女儿毕业了吧？ 是啊，毕业差不多两年了。 现在在哪儿上班呢？ 在我们家附近的一个医院，当医生。 男的的女儿是做什么的？ Dictation in Word is really struggling,…
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Enough time
I enjoyed today. It felt like the day stretched, I got up a little after 5, I did a little bit of study, I did some preparation for the day and the week which will follow, and then it just felt like I had plenty of time to do other things as well. I booked…