Kayla_TP_#4

Date/Time: January 27th, 7:30 pm
Location: My house :)

I picked up Kaori and we did our tutoring session at my house. She got to meet my dog and seemed to really like her (Spirit was cuddled under Kaori's legs). Kaori has a presentation that she has to give in class tomorrow, so we worked on her script. She had 80% of it put together, and we only had to tweak a few grammatical things. Her presentation is about kimonos and yukatas. She's going to bring her yukata to class and teach everyone how to put it on. So she had the history and characteristics of the kimono and yukata written down, but she didn't know how to explain how to put on a yukata and what to call the different parts of the garb.
We decided to check out some videos of how to wear yukata on YouTube. We then tried to figure out how to phrase or describe each piece, and how to explain how to put each piece on. This took a good 20 minutes, but we got through it! I tried my hardest not to give her all the answers and instead how to go about figuring out some answers by herself. I did help her with how to describe the difference between the belt on the yukata and the "obi," or a large satin sash that goes on top of the belt.
We also got to discuss different phrases of layering or organizing items, such as "on top of," "in between," "under," and "over." We also figured out new body part words. I didn't know which was better to say, "under the chest" or "around the rib cage" for tying the belt, so I explained that she could most likely get away with using either one. Rib cage was really hard to explain, but I'm pretty sure she understood that the two phrases were about the same region of the body.





Super side-note: After we trudged through her presentation, I taught Kaori a hula hoop trick and she loved it. :)