sucky sushi sucks
Nov. 10th, 2005 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
insanenekoUgh, I had awful sushi today. I foolishly decided to try a new sushi place near my workplace. Bad idea. I can’t believe how substandard that place is, even when you compare it to other take-out or kaiten sushi type places. I want some good sushi now. Maybe I’ll go buy some sushi-grade sashimi (tuna and hamachi, YUM) and some cucumbers (so good with ume paste!) and make some sushi rice, and eat tasty and not too expensive sushi. *sighs*
I learned yesterday that one of the top private schools in Hawaii exposes their students to foreign languages from an early age. They introduce their students to Chinese in first grade, Japanese in second, and Hawaiian in third. Then the students (or more like their parents) can choose to continue on with one of those languages in after school and/or summer classes. In seventh grade the students are given a bigger variety of classes that they can take. What struck me as how typically Hawaii is that none of the foreign languages they are exposed to as little kids are European. ^_^ It was part of a local radio program focused on foreign language (or more like lack of) in the U.S. I remember my roommate in college really regretting the fact that her parents never spoke to her in their native language, so that she could assimilate better into American society. And so she can’t speak the language of her ancestors at all.
GAH. Yet another instance of Fox News being….Fox News. A little report about how the House was dropping the provision to allow drilling for oil in ANWR…which was prefaced by a little spiel by the reporter saying isn’t it just common sense that the price of things go down when there’s more supply? Then he reports about the House with the emphasis that they went against that common sense logic, with this almost sneering aside that there were “environmental issues” regarding the issue. Can they be only a little more obvious about their bias? Grrr…
I learned yesterday that one of the top private schools in Hawaii exposes their students to foreign languages from an early age. They introduce their students to Chinese in first grade, Japanese in second, and Hawaiian in third. Then the students (or more like their parents) can choose to continue on with one of those languages in after school and/or summer classes. In seventh grade the students are given a bigger variety of classes that they can take. What struck me as how typically Hawaii is that none of the foreign languages they are exposed to as little kids are European. ^_^ It was part of a local radio program focused on foreign language (or more like lack of) in the U.S. I remember my roommate in college really regretting the fact that her parents never spoke to her in their native language, so that she could assimilate better into American society. And so she can’t speak the language of her ancestors at all.
GAH. Yet another instance of Fox News being….Fox News. A little report about how the House was dropping the provision to allow drilling for oil in ANWR…which was prefaced by a little spiel by the reporter saying isn’t it just common sense that the price of things go down when there’s more supply? Then he reports about the House with the emphasis that they went against that common sense logic, with this almost sneering aside that there were “environmental issues” regarding the issue. Can they be only a little more obvious about their bias? Grrr…