{"id":7298,"date":"2009-12-18T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/18\/end-of-term\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T21:46:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:46:14","slug":"end-of-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/18\/end-of-term\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5090knct\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5090knct.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5090knct\" width=\"330\" height=\"497\" align=\"right\" \/> It was my last day guest lecturing at the college today. The lectures and workshops I did with my Japanese students covered a lot of material.<\/p>\n<p>And when there\u2019s such high content density, so much memories have been created during the last five days that even though it\u2019s just been five (intensive) days, each day has actually felt long \u2013 and in the good sense.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got round to bring the D300 to work and taking pictures during my lunch hour today too. Didn\u2019t get to take much as the weather was crazily freezing. At noon with the sun right up overhead, the temperature was still a frosty 4 degree celsius\u2026 with wind to boot!<\/p>\n<p>I was no longer playing hero: I didn\u2019t bring winter pants, but wore a thicker polo-shirt, a sweater, and my jacket as a third layer when I was outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>So, there really aren\u2019t too many pictures I took of the college compound as I was too cold to venture walking further than the immediate vicinity of my block to take better pictures. The first picture was taken right beside the cafeteria building with some students milling about during their lunch hour.<\/p>\n<p>The picture below is a HDR composition:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_5073-knct-hdr-28-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5073kncthdr28flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_5073-knct-hdr-28-flickr\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of students cycle to work \u2013 and all the bicycles aren\u2019t secure chained. Theft of bicycles clearly isn\u2019t a problem in this part of the world:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_5067-knct\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5067knct.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_5067-knct\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And lastly, here\u2019s my class of students, with the college professor I\u2019ve been liaising and working with this whole week (these are also his own students). This was taken just before we said our good byes. In addition to their daily bow at the end of each teaching day, the class \u2013 led by their class representative \u2013 also thank me in unison in English for my teaching this week. It was really moving, especially considering many of them aren\u2019t confident English speakers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_5112-knct-class\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5112knctclass.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_5112-knct-class\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, the rest of my stay here or at least for tonight and most of tomorrow morning will be spent marking their test they sat for just now. Hopefully I\u2019ll finish by noon time though, and also that the weather holds \u2013 just so I can visit Suizenji Gardens.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was my last day guest lecturing at the college today. The lectures and workshops I did with my Japanese students covered a lot of material. And when there\u2019s such high content density, so much memories have been created during<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/18\/end-of-term\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  End of Term<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[463,237],"class_list":["post-7298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-japan-2010","tag-kumamoto-2009","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}