"People who are - born on? - the equinox are?"

"Yes.  ....And, and everyone else, for their birthday.  Except mostly the solquinoxes."  Sniffle.  "Everyone else is evener."

"What do you mean evener?" says Haru.

"More like everyone else than like each other than solquinoxes are."

"...I don't get it."

"What I'm hearing is that you were expected to grow up to be a certain way, and whether they expected that because of astrology or because of how they were choosing to raise you it's still a lot to put on a little girl."

That sets her off again.  "I was doing really well at it but now it's all gone -"

"Nobody could possibly expect you to do exactly what was planned for you when you've been teleported to a strange place!"

"But I don't know how to do anything else..."

"You can't be much older than Haru. You've got years and years to figure out what you want to do."

She needs to wipe her face some more.  "I'm eight."

"That's his age too. He'll be nine in just a couple of months."

"It's longer, for me."

"What time of year do you remember it being again?"

"It was springtime.  Tetrinary twoct-seven."

"Do you wanna learn Earth dates in English first or just start there in Japanese?"

"Why do you ask?  It's different?"

"Yeah. There isn't a month called Tetrinary and there isn't a day called tooked-seven."

"Oh."  Sniffle.  "What base do people use here?"

"Base ten mostly, but there are twenty four hours in a day and sixty minutes in an hour and sixty seconds in a minute."

"Oh."

"So there are kanji, for the numbers, but everybody even in Japan knows the Arabic numerals so you can just use those. And then there's the twelve months and they all just translate to one-month, two-month, etcetera, it's really regular, and the days are less regular than that..."

...She can compose herself well enough to tear herself away from Ren and start writing things down, if that seems like the thing to do.

It's up to her!

As much as everything is awful and she doesn't know how to handle it.... she does know how to handle lessons.  And she's quite good at them, by her own standards.  So - yes, she will try to learn about this.

....Except it turns out to be a poor distraction.  She accepts the information and writes it down, as perfectly as she can, but some of it makes her tip her head down so that her hair curtains off her face, and then she keeps having to take tissue breaks so she very definitely won't get any tears on the notebook.