A long time ago, I watched a friend of mine writing a post card in Chinese. I commented on how complex the Chinese looked, and how long it took to write each one. She looked up from her post card and said something along the lines of "Yes, they're complicated, but each character holds a lot of information". I just kind of looked at her quizzically ( Read more... )

It has been made apparent to me that many people assume that I am passionate about Japanese. It always comes about when the topic of school comes up. "Well, I know you're passionate about learning Japanese." they say. I think I might know why too. Japanese is not a normal major. When you major in Engineering it's safe to assume you intent to get a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, first Japanese class in three weeks.
Tomorrow, the midterm.
Today, a three hour in class discussion on a Japanese, feature length erotic film, for a totally unrelated course.

What a weird first week back this has been.

I had forgotten how difficult it is to do homework with a back problem...

I wonder when writing papers became so difficult. In high school a short essay was a simple thing that would take me around an hour. I've been banging my head on these papers for 3 days now though... I wonder what happened.

Today I was in the lobby doing some studying for my midterm. My land lord was sweeping around the table and saw some of the work I had done. She said (In Japanese ( Read more... )

So my Grandma Died last week ( Read more... )

So I've known for a long time that I often ignore my body when it's complaining. But just now I just realized that I have been conditioned to associate pain with laziness ( Read more... )

I'm having trouble figuring out how to go through life while keeping my back in mind. Tasks as simple as getting myself to school have become problems that require a lot of trial, error, and pain. I have altered my daily life significantly to accommodate it and I think it's slowly wearing me down. Just today I had to stay home from school, because ( Read more... )

For the past two days I've eaten virtually nothing but rice and hot pockets. I also got an e-mail informing me that Oita probably won't be sending out my information packet until mid march..... which is when I was planning on leaving. I'm rather frustrated at the moment...