March 2004 - Snowboarding and Hitchhiking
I finally started renting movies here. I rented "Amelie" because I'd always wanted to see it. I took it home and realized that the only languages available on the DVD were French and Japanese. So I watched a French movie dubbed in Japanese on an American Xbox that I hacked with a Chinese-made modchip purchased from a Canadian company. Yeeeehaaaaw! Needless to say, it was a night of interesting Japanese practice.
AEON Performance Evaluation
The AEON trainer Chad came out and evaluated my performance. It went better than expected despite having only 1 student plus the evaluator in the room. He talked to me about my future at AEON and said that "Honsha [AEON's headquarters] has their eyes on you." I got a little freaked out by that, but I think he just meant to say that I could potentially get a promotion someday. Unfortunately, Chad doesn't realize that I