Last day of school!
15 MayJapanese lesson for the day: お疲れ様でした (otsukare sama deshita)
It means “thanks for your hard work,” or literally something along the lines of “you must be tired” (I’m not entirely making that last one up–“tired” is 疲れた or tsukareta).
It’s what Japanese people say to each other at the end of the work day, or when they complete a big project. I loved saying this at the end of the day when I worked in Japan (and when I worked for a Japanese company in the States). It was so nice to have that acknowledgement of the work you did that day. For me, it was a nice separation of work and home, but I’m sure that wasn’t the case for most of my Japanese coworkers.
Still, this is how I feel right now. I’m in the last 15 minutes or so of my first semester into my MLIS (although I was pretty much done with my last assignment by the end of the weekend), and I’ve been telling myself otsukare at the end of every big project I’ve done so far. I still have work, and freelance work, and I have stuff scheduled in for pretty much every day of my break between semesters, but I am definitely ready for a break from school. I may even get some reading done! 😀
A quick note for A to Z: Thanks for all of your comments and congrats on the reflections post! I’m already preparing for next year!
Falling in Love with the Library
11 AprHere’s a break from the A to Z Challenge with a link to a video I’ve been meaning to share since I saw it last week:
Falling in Love with the Library (Clicking on the link will take you to the first video in the playlist that will autoplay all five videos plus the trailer.)
This video series from Tsinghua University Library won first place in the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) International Marketing Awards. It’s in Mandarin so I understood some of it, but I definitely needed the subtitles for the technical terms and signs. Some parts might be a little confusing if you don’t speak Chinese, but they aren’t that important to understand completely.