Friday 0ctober 6 2017
"Ok, I know your vocabulary skills are pretty good and I know you can understand written and spoken pretty well. The problem is I don't think all of you actually understand how the grammar works and you have trouble translating Japanese into English. I've given you a week to prepare for this test, its not very long but it isn't going to be easy." Emma paused as a few audible sighs were let out, she scanned the room one last time before passing out the test.
"The test will ask you to describe the function of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. You can explain in Japanese but I will give bonus points to students who use English. You must give examples for each in English, remember you need three examples for the verbs; one for each tense we have learned so far. There is another section where you will translate English and Japanese sentences along with a reading that you will answer questions on. There are instructions in Japanese on the test for any of you who are confused. I hate to have to say this but cheating is a punishable offence, so don't do it, I will know." She handed out the last of her tests and returned to her desk. It was her last class of the day, by some miracle she had convinced the principal to give her the first couple classes which meant that though she had no breaks she got to leave everyday at lunch time. It was more than a bit unnerving to teach the Japanese equivalent of seniors, there was only a one or two year age gap between most of the students. She told them that she was almost 30 and they seemed to believe it. Older students worked out well because she could teach them in English, her Japanese was still pretty limited.
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The bell chimed, a few pencils scratched furiously to finish. "Time's up, I will be coming around to collect your tests. Please remain seated until I have collected all the tests." She eyed a couple of her more social students. No homework for the weekend but we will have a quick vocab quiz over this weeks vocabulary. Don't groan, I didn't want to add it to your test. We'll be getting a new grammar unit Monday so make sure you are ready to take notes. Have a good lunch and a wonderful weekend." Emma gathered up her things as the students began to shift around, pull out lunches or money to buy the school made ones. They paid her no notice as she slipped out and left for the day.
She got home before lunch traffic, today was turning out to be pretty lucky but as she entered the apartment that luck became an illusion. Someone had purposely trashed the place, everything but her computer set up had been overturned, broken, or tampered with in some way. There was a note stuck to her main computer screen, 'The truth is a dangerous thing, spread it around and there will be consequences." She swallowed, her lurking in dark net chats and forums was obviously unwelcomed. The underworld of Pokémon was growing rapidly she had been watching it, with a power like Pokémon there would always be people who will seek to corrupt it, use it, for their own gains. The thugs were far from an exception, it was only a matter of time before things spun out of control but they hadn't, a few incidents aside, the knowledge had been kept under lock and key. There were people in the shadows and it looked like they'd had enough of her snooping. Her research had been copied and erased but she had back ups, the loss wasn't the problem. They had her research, every incident, every sighting, pictures, statistics, experiments, inventions, ideas. Assuming they had successfully dodged her wiping programs they had one heavily encrypted mass of information filled with traps and viruses of course but none the less if they knew what they were doing then they would have all the information in a week, two if she was lucky. The peaceful research and observation phase had ended, there was no letting this go. She would have to get it back. Her biggest question was how?
"Ok, I know your vocabulary skills are pretty good and I know you can understand written and spoken pretty well. The problem is I don't think all of you actually understand how the grammar works and you have trouble translating Japanese into English. I've given you a week to prepare for this test, its not very long but it isn't going to be easy." Emma paused as a few audible sighs were let out, she scanned the room one last time before passing out the test.
"The test will ask you to describe the function of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. You can explain in Japanese but I will give bonus points to students who use English. You must give examples for each in English, remember you need three examples for the verbs; one for each tense we have learned so far. There is another section where you will translate English and Japanese sentences along with a reading that you will answer questions on. There are instructions in Japanese on the test for any of you who are confused. I hate to have to say this but cheating is a punishable offence, so don't do it, I will know." She handed out the last of her tests and returned to her desk. It was her last class of the day, by some miracle she had convinced the principal to give her the first couple classes which meant that though she had no breaks she got to leave everyday at lunch time. It was more than a bit unnerving to teach the Japanese equivalent of seniors, there was only a one or two year age gap between most of the students. She told them that she was almost 30 and they seemed to believe it. Older students worked out well because she could teach them in English, her Japanese was still pretty limited.
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The bell chimed, a few pencils scratched furiously to finish. "Time's up, I will be coming around to collect your tests. Please remain seated until I have collected all the tests." She eyed a couple of her more social students. No homework for the weekend but we will have a quick vocab quiz over this weeks vocabulary. Don't groan, I didn't want to add it to your test. We'll be getting a new grammar unit Monday so make sure you are ready to take notes. Have a good lunch and a wonderful weekend." Emma gathered up her things as the students began to shift around, pull out lunches or money to buy the school made ones. They paid her no notice as she slipped out and left for the day.
She got home before lunch traffic, today was turning out to be pretty lucky but as she entered the apartment that luck became an illusion. Someone had purposely trashed the place, everything but her computer set up had been overturned, broken, or tampered with in some way. There was a note stuck to her main computer screen, 'The truth is a dangerous thing, spread it around and there will be consequences." She swallowed, her lurking in dark net chats and forums was obviously unwelcomed. The underworld of Pokémon was growing rapidly she had been watching it, with a power like Pokémon there would always be people who will seek to corrupt it, use it, for their own gains. The thugs were far from an exception, it was only a matter of time before things spun out of control but they hadn't, a few incidents aside, the knowledge had been kept under lock and key. There were people in the shadows and it looked like they'd had enough of her snooping. Her research had been copied and erased but she had back ups, the loss wasn't the problem. They had her research, every incident, every sighting, pictures, statistics, experiments, inventions, ideas. Assuming they had successfully dodged her wiping programs they had one heavily encrypted mass of information filled with traps and viruses of course but none the less if they knew what they were doing then they would have all the information in a week, two if she was lucky. The peaceful research and observation phase had ended, there was no letting this go. She would have to get it back. Her biggest question was how?
