I have never laughed so hard than I did today! My final Japanese conversation class turned out to be one of the most interesting Japanese class I have ever attended!
Yesterday each one of us was told to write an essay about our respective countries. And here is the catch word...in Japanese!! Another bombshell was that we had to memorise (read cram) this essay in less than 24 hours and present the next day.
Well, you may think that all is easy..but it isnt especially when you have competing priorities. My course has become busier. Since its winding up, there is so much stuff to do. i am now eating, sleeping, thinking and talking Action Plans! So with such a mind state, memorising Nihongo was bottom of my brain priority.
But as the hours grew nearer to 7pm ( thats when the class starts). I was forced to put aside the Action plan and think of my Nihongo class presentation.
When I realised that things were not going so well for me, I made a power point presentation. I figured that I am better off adding flavour to my poor Japanese. After all, since a picture is worth a thousand words, it would make up for my lack of Japanese words!
Come 7pm, everyone is nervous...a random selection mention is done.. the presentations begin. No sooner had they started than the laughters begun! People were misprouncing words, forgeting their lines, so nervous that some appeared to be performing a special dance... It was a beautiful atmosphere.
My turn to speak..I wasnt nervous but the little Japanese I knew seemed to have hidden under a brick wall!! I kept forgetting the sentences. Eeh,things were tough! And to show that they were really tough, every sentence I would think of was in my mother language..now if thats not a classic deifintion of hard, what is!! :)
But I was saved by the photos! Especially the pot dance! Well, if you cant speak Nihongo, atleast you can dance and get away with it! So I danced the best pot dance I could and definitely got away with it:)
Some presentations were out of this world...my colleagues and I laughed so hard that some of us had to leave the room for some fresh air!! Inspite the laughter,we learnt about other countries' cultures and places which was great..
What a fine way to crown my Japanese conversation class. I am glad I was part of it. Now the challenge for me is to remember whatever I learnt for many, many more years to come.
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