Learn something new every day...

The class was supposed to translate this one passage for today. Extremely tough going, with lots of nasty kanji, which is why the sensei is letting us take it as a group. One of the bits was giving us all an especially hard time, so we had to drag in a tutor or two yesterday. "That's 'kikori'". "What's it mean?" "'Woodcutter.'" We glance at the word again. "Oh! A lumberjack!" "...Lumber-what?" So we got to teach them for a change, which was fun (though what does the "jack" in "lumberjack" mean anyway?)

Gotta get to class now... but want to surf a bit more... what to do...