Eh..

Ok so one final down. One more to go... plus two papers... both of which I haven't started yet...

I'm currently in a blah mood. I had a small mishap with the host kid. She was doing her daily English exercises and asked me for help, which I had no problem with. She is a really smart kid, but when it comes to forming her own sentences... she gives up too quickly. She kind of reminds me of me in my Japanese class. I understand the problem, and I know what to write, but I have so many options of what to say that I just can't decide on one answer. This leads to frustration and resentment to the assignment in front of me. After struggling with the question, I could see the frustration starting to build up on her face. This turned to tears as she thought of just a single question in English that she could write. I knew she knew the meaning because she could say it in Japanese... well this frustration of course lead to tears as she got up and went to the other room. I didn't know what to do so I left too.

This was again replayed to my host mom during our dinner discussion. She was curious as to what happened and we both explained it to her. I'm a little worried for my host kid... she'll soon be moving to an all English speaking country, and I'm afraid there won't be people patient enough to help her. Especially when she doesn't want to try harder. It's difficult to be upset with her though... she's just a kid, and it shouldn't really be my business.