I don't wanna post a big entry so I'll be quick. I've been studying a LOT of Japanese. I have Spoken Japanese everyday and written three times a week. I'm in level 2 of each, but a little behind in writing so I study a lot to catch up. Every night I review what was learned in class because I wanna speak japper speak...a lot ( Read more... )

Big blog update with pictures at winterbeard.com/corey. Hope you like it.

Tonight I drank at a bar called "Daddy's Shoes." It's an American style biker bar in Hirakata City. It was hilarious ( Read more... )

Everyone to post on my last entry was added to the email list. Thanks a jillion!

-cwa

Hey dudes. I'm leaving for Japan on Sunday, and I'm sure you're all tired of hearing me say it. Just letting you know that I've started a new blog that I'll be using to post pictures and stuff from Japan. I'll still use this one occasionally, because the other one has to be safe for my grandparents and all that, but mostly it's going to be the ( Read more... )

The Palace is doing a Hitchcock film series, in case you didn't know. I think I might go to every single one of them, because they are only five dollars. I saw Indiana Jones at the Palace and it was fun--the screen was huge.

Anyway it starts this Friday and goes until the 18th of August. They are showing like 15 Hitchcock films.

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The developing facts of this shooting in Virginia are absolutely fucking insane. I don't want to be reactionary, but it seems like our generation has been present for a few of the most horrific and significant tragedies in American history.

Reading about Japanese Suicide Culture is so fascinating, and so overwhelmingly terrifying. I want to learn everything I can about it, because it has so much to do with the culture in which I will be spending five months. But as I investigate, I just get pushed back; it’s the absolute darkest thing I've ever read about ( Read more... )

I recieved my official letter of acceptance to the Asian Studies Progam at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. I'll be there August 24ish to December 15is. I plan on taking Reading and Writing Japanese (1 or 2 depending on assessment), Speaking Japanese (1 or 2 depending on assessment), and two other courses. One will probably be on ( Read more... )

BabyWolfie (from his webste ( Read more... )