In first period, the professor's lecture focused on the dynamics of having knowledge of civil law when running businesses and applying for loans. Mainly, the class is teaching how to apply education in law to learning economics. I did as I usually do: jot down notes on vocabulary and try to tune into what the professor is lecturing about amidst the distractions of students moving in and out of the class. Really, of anything, as I said before, it's a good environment for observing student behavior. Some students leave at the beginning of class and come in 5 minutes before it's dismissed just to catch what needs to be done. There's no attendance taken in these huge lecture hall-style courses, and one student (from the Folk Song Club) happened to come to class for the first time in spite of it already being 5 weeks or so in. Seeing how students sleep during class is also interesting: many have their heads down on their folded arms. There are entire rows of students that sleep, and the professor continues on as if nothing is out of the ordinary (because it is ordinary). Some students just hang their head down in a sitting position while they sleep, like they tried hard but just couldn't keep their brains functioning through the barrage of legal jargon and textbook page references during the professor's lecture. There was one interesting tidbit from the professor's lecture, however: he chastised Japanese students for the fact that Chinese students in his courses usually tend to score higher on class exams, saying "How does a Chinese student do better at understanding Japanese than a Japanese student?". I laughed out loud but was the only one laughing- not because the other students were offended, but because nobody really seemed to be listening.
Second class of the day was Chinese Communication. I learned Chinese.
In Technical Japanese, third period, we were handed back prior homework assignments. The paper I wrote about basing salary on seniority rather than outrightly basing it on skill received good marks from the professor, although she questioned whether all people who become rich also become cocaine addicts. As usual in the class, students read from a handout about Japanese labor movements, this section going into labor rights following the end of World War II, especially in terms of strikes and unions. In a rare instance, the professor called on me to read a paragraph from the text, probably because she thinks I've progressed in reading comprehension as well as writing judging by my last report. Other than that it was nothing more than language instruction.
That concludes today's classes. It felt as uneventful as this blog entry; I can only be an honest writer, never a sensationalist.
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