French Lesson

Since leaving secondary school I haven't much thought about my French teacher. I had no special feelings towards her so why she should appear in my dreams now is a mystery.

Well, I was back at school, back in the same classroom I used to have French lessons in. I didn't notice anything about the other students, only that they were there. The French teacher was managing to teach us French but without the French. Maybe it was actually in Japanese, I'm not sure.

Towards the end of the lesson she kept asking me questions about the grammatical subjects and what 'it' and 'that' were referring to in my English textbooks. This is a common thing Japanese people tend to ask about English sentences.

The lesson was over. On the board there were several of my magnets and postcards which I use to introduce myself and the U.K. to the students in real life. I took them off the board and wiped it clean of chalk.

For some reason I was trying to recall how to say 'seventeen' in French. No matter how hard I tried it wouldn't come to me. Everything was blocked by my Japanese. I even thought some Japanese words were French.

While some students were still in the room I was talking to the French teacher at the front. I was puzzled over a problem and she was trying to point my in the right direction while she held my arm. Then I realised there was meaning behind her touch. She was trying to take advantage of me.

Comments

[mkw98]

I am reading about personality theories at the moment:
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/perscontents.html

And it seems you have LOTS of problems! Just joking. :)

BTW before reading that page, I didn't know there are so many theories. So when someone talks about personality using one of those theories, usually there will be other theories that cover the same topic with a different explaination.

[TC]

I agree with mkwong. I was almost going to be a psychology major in college until my family caught me labeling people with each and every traits and theories I learned. It could be dangerous to start explaining things and interpreting dreams by applying those theories. Life is just full of surprises and these labels don't really work. Try not to drill into the meaning of dreams too much and focus on the presence. Have a good laugh and move on. If you are bored, why not go play some sports or hang out with friends? Do something healthy and clear up your mind.

(This will be my advise to my younger brother, if this was his blog ...)

[Darren]

mkw, don't scare me like that. I'm sure I have problems without you having to tell me :|

TC, I hope you are agreeing with mkw that there are many theories which contradict each other and so any labelling loses meaning? Or you agree that I have problems?

In any case, I am not too into delving into every meaning of everything I see in my dreams. I just like to record my stranger dreams, that's all. But I have to admit I have looked at dream dictionaries before - it's interesting after all.

But if people were to take apart my dreams could they tell much about me? Maybe you have already.

[TC]

I agree with the many theories that work against each other making it all togther useless and I also want to chime in on the joke of you having possible problems! :-P Ha ha. But don't worry too much. Maybe it's the cold that's making you all sentimental.

[Darren]

Oh, thanks for that TC :P

It's not the cold that's making me sentimental, but I am going through a phase of looking back. But not a long way back as my dream would suggest. I must choose to keep something the same as it has been - good but not perfect - or to move on in a challenging direction.