{"id":704,"date":"2023-02-09T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=704"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:14:36","slug":"manga-drawing-my-student-miho-gave-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/manga-drawing-my-student-miho-gave-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga drawing my student Miho gave me!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tonight I was very moved! It was the last night for the adult English class, at the end of the 15 weeks of lessons we’ve had together. Miho-san is a quiet woman who did not speak English much, but she became very interested in learning about my incredible love story, of how I came to fall in love with my pen pal Mayu and married her.<\/a> She was very moved with how I was a shy nerd\/otaku type who married his Japanese pen pal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miho-san said that she’s just been preoccupied with raising her children to adulthood that she never thought much about having a hobby, but she said that I helped inspire her to reach back to her old hobby of drawing anime\/manga characters. She’d shown me a beautiful picture of Maetel she’d drawn a long time ago. For me tonight, she gave me a booklet with two sketches of Minmay from Macross and Lum from Urusei Yatsura. I was so happy and almost started to cry! Miho-san is an excellent artist! Thank you, Miho-san. These sketches are my new treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a photo I took of a watercolor painting of Maetel that Miho-san showed me. She is rather talented.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tonight I was very moved! It was the last night for the adult English class, at the end of the 15 weeks of lessons we’ve had together. Miho-san is a quiet woman who did not speak English much, but she became very interested in learning about my incredible love story, of how I came to … <\/p>\n

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