20/06/2002, Thursday, 6:00pm

Today's so-called practice section of the English Oral went quite well in a sense that, we DID practiced for some time...before we took an "interval" and played UNO instead. Well, in the morning we didn't do anything. Since we don't have enough people for a discussion. We could only practice the role play. Then we went out to a restaurant at about 11:30am to meet Hikaru-san and the others. We discussed a bit about the oral exam, only to find out that Hikaru-san's class seldom have practice on it. Unlike our class, we have at least 2 lessons for oral in a cycle. It seemed like we had to give them a quick tutorial about the exam format.

When we got back home, Kuu-san almost jumped down from the stairs, scaring Yuri-san and Hinagiku-san (they insisted I don't need to be so formal) in the process. And the others just laughed at her, while I sighed. Well, she was just so hyper-active, even more than Hikaru-san sometimes. At least I never saw her jump down the stairs before.

So, Kuu-san finally went back to her room after asking for their autographs. Being popular sure was hard. First we tried out several discussions: 4 people to do the actual work and the other 2 would watch and give comments afterwards. We found out that Yuri-san was doing quite well, but Hikaru-san and Hinagiku-san were too quiet, even we joked that sometimes both of them could be quite noisy. But, of course, we knew that because they didn't know when to speak. Since if you accidentally interrupted the others, marks will be deducted.

All of us decided to have a rest at about 2:00pm. Kuyami-san suggested to play UNO since she had a one with her. But it was a traveling version, or an ultra-delicate version as Umi-san put in. The cards were about 3 x 1.5 cm. And we played some Furil CDs (also brought by Kuyami-san, how come she brought so many things out at a time?) at the same time. But Hikaru-san never play UNO before so we tried to teach her. For the first few rounds, she was always the last one to get rid of all her cards (and Umi-san always being the winner). Even Kuyami-san, Yuri-san and Hinagiku-san joined with Hikaru-san trying to beat Umi-san, they failed twice. Umi-san laughed as the "Triple Alliance" failed to stop her aggression. (Umi-san surely had study History as she can still remember this term) Then we continued again at 3:30pm.

This time, we tried out the role play again. I went back to my room and dug out some pass exam exercises. But when Kuyami-san and I were giving a talk about the role play to Hikaru-san and Hinagiku-san, the rest of them sneaked to Kuu-san's room and read magazines. They made Kuyami-san got all the cushions in the house and threw at them. Then all of them got into a cushion fight.

We tried as hard as we could to ignore the cushion fight. But finally we all went up and drag them down instead of waiting for them. We settled for a final "rehearsal", then we went back to our game of UNO again.

But this time, Umi-san was not doing as well as before. On the other hand, Kuyami-san, who had been losing in the "first round", become the winner. And Hikaru-san managed to get the 3rd place as well. By this time, we had totally forgotten everything about the oral exam already.

But at least we did do something beside playing UNO.

Kuu-san is coming up to drag me down for today's World Cup match. But when did she started to get obsessed with soccer?