For those who don’t know, Russian cursive looks like this:
Following this knowledge:
Eli, having spent most of her life in Russia, finds it faster to write in Russian when she has a choice. Despite always being neat when she writes, it’s still absolutely unreadable.
One time Nico stole Eli’s notes because she slept through class and figured, hey, Eli’s smart, she probably takes good notes. She opens the notebook and is horrified to find pages and pages of scribbles.
Nico complained to Nozomi about this and Nozomi just shook her head sadly. This was a lesson she had learned back when they were first years. You can’t trust Eli to write anything.
Eli keeps trying to write official documents for the Student Council and Nozomi won’t let her. Eli protests, saying that her Japanese writing is perfect (and it is). Nozomi refuses simply on principle.
Honoka found Eli’s diary once when snooping through her room. She brought it to Arisa and bribed her with chocolate to translate it. Arisa couldn’t.
Eli’s not allowed to take notes during meetings, which is a shame because no one else can be trusted to do it. This is part of the reason Umi repeats herself constantly during meetings; she knows with no notes that no one will remember anything.
Eli doesn’t think there’s any thing wrong with her writing and gets offended when people say otherwise and ends up spending the rest of the day moping. Nico and Nozomi tell her to just stop writing in Russian, no one could read it even if it was legible. Eli mopes more.
[screaming externally] 