Roooaaar

Alright, randomness. Let's see, what to talk about... todaaay.

I've got it! ... Ok, no, I don't. I just thought that would give me momentum. Crap.

Oh! Now I've got it, I mean it this time. Manga~! So! I went to a Japanese marketplace called Mitsuwa recently, right? I didn't have a lot of money on my card at the time, so I wasn't able to get too much, but I was able to get my hands on the first volume of a manga series I already have, but it's in Japanese this time. So I'm looking through it, looking through it, not understanding a whole lot... but it helps me practice reading. So that's good. I hand it off to Matsubara-sensei (that is to say, my Japanese teacher. -Hakase would mean professor.) in the car and, without realizing it, she starts to read it! After about 8 pages, she realizes it and hands it back, apologizing quickly. I swear, she's adorable.

Like a kitten kind of adorable. Jerks. Gawd.

She's from Osaka, which tends to be a more... verbose city in Japan. You can definitely tell it in her energetic manner and cutesy dialect. For example: many sentences in Japanese end with desu. The 'u', in standard dialect, is silent. (Deh-s). The Kansai (Kah-n-sa-i) dialect, among other things, has the 'u' pronounced. (Deh-su). Try it. It's cute for girls.

But, yeah. Due to a conversation I had with a friend of mine, we're now contemplating comparing Matsubara-sensei to Lolcats. Tee hee.

Almost done!

Alright! I'm almost done with this four weeks of vigorous hell. Just three more days before I go home, thankfully. I've been at this program called Premiere, and it takes incoming first year college students or minorities and gives them four week of college in each others company. The classes are rigorous, as they normally are at North Central, anyway. It's tough stuff. I have an English Class, a workshop every day, a couple of jobs I work at on Tuesdays and Thursdays... the night is my only real downtime. Which is nice enough, I suppose. It's quiet, everyone's around. Though the people I need to talk to never seem to be...

But, yes. I plan to double major in Japanese and Education. Hopefully, the state will have a program for Japanese Education Certification by the time I graduate, and I won't have to get Certified in something else to be endorsed in Japanese. Or I could just move to Japan... somethin'. I unno. I'm gonna be up to my eyeballs in money I owe from loans, at this rate, though.