I took triple lessons today.

The first one was with teacher I.
She had read the Japanese articles, and we discussed many topics regarding them.

The first topic was classification.
According to her, they are divided into levels in the Philippines, here in Japan, at the private schools, and some of the public schools are like that, but others are not.

I’ve heard they are assigned considering their characters, especially at public junior and senior highs. 
Teachers assign a student who is good at playing piano and can run fast in each class because of equality for some school events.

Many schools have events of the chorus competition and sports day.
Some students need to accompany their classmates at the chorus event, and they have the relay at the sports event; if students who can run gathered in one class, it is inequality.

The next topic was coffee beans.
She asked me if I was familiar with “blue mountain” and if it was expensive.
I answered we could buy several coffee beans, and “blue mountain No.1” was quite expensive.
She told me about her childhood memory; she could pick coffee beans up from her grandparents’ backyard, dry them, grind them, and drink them, so they didn’t need to buy them.

The topic changed; she asked me if “geisha” used to be men and if they were called “taikomochi” or “houkan,” but I didn’t know about that, so I googled and found out.
According to Wikipedia, they showed performances and helped geishas.
In addition, the people who flatter someone called “Ttikomochi” nowadays.

The topic changed again; she asked me how much melons cost in Japan.
I answered it depends on the species.
According to her, they can buy it for about 220 yen in the Philippines.
I mentioned the expensive species is the “Yubari king melon,” but I didn’t know the exact price, so I googled.
It said someone had knocked down two melons for five million yen in 2019.
Holly cow!!

A fancy restaurant bought them, and then the chef sliced them very thin and served them.
I prefer to eat not so thin, even if a fancy one.

She knew the Japanese custom “ochugen,” a midsummer gift, so I told her that my husband’s colleague sends us “Yubari melon,” and we could enjoy them yearly.

The second and the third ones were with teacher N.
I mentioned I’d already taken the lesson with teacher I today, and she asked what we discussed.
I told her the topics for today and started with regarding “Geisha.”

She told me she’d watched the movie about Geisha before, but I was unfamiliar, so she shared the link, and I found it.
The title was “Memoirs of a Geisha,” I was surprised because many famous Japanese actors and actresses performed in this film; Ken Watanabe, Kouji Yakusho, Kaori Momoi, and so on.
She realized why she was familiar with Ken Watanabe when I told her his name in the former class; that’s why she had watched him in this film.

Moreover, she told me that the child actress in this movie was so pretty and shared her photo, and I agreed with her.
Regarding child actors, she asked me who is famous in Japan nowadays.
I shred her a picture of a famous child actress, “Haro Asada,” she was adorable indeed.

After seeing the photo, she said Haro looked like a famous Japanese actress, and I guessed and sent her a picture.
My intuition hit; it was “Mone Kamishiraishi.”
Of course, she knew her because Mone performed with her favorite actor in TV drama series.
We were curious if they were dating in real life.

The topic changed, and we talked about books.
I shared the English book; they introduced it in a TV program in Japan and said it was a million-seller and translated into over twenty languages.
I reserved it at the library and will read it next; I’m reading quite a long novel, more than 500 pages, now.

After completing it, I will read the book I mentioned above, and next, I will read teacher N’s recommendation.
Moreover, I’d like to watch the movie she mentioned today, “Memoirs of a geisha,” someday.

I talked and wrote a lot of English today.
It took about six hours!