November 2011
1 post
寂しい！
寂しい：lonely I have exactly 12 more days left in this wonderful country. Actually, if you’re all technical and stuff, it’s actually 11.5 days since I leave around lunch on Friday, December 9. I can’t believe 3-and-a-half months have gone by so quickly. So incredibly quickly. I know it’s cliché to say, but it honestly feels like just last week that I walked into Hayama Seminar House for the first...
October 2011
4 posts
おいしそう！
おいしそう: looks delicious! Sunday lunch at マリン! Sunday family dinner Monday breakfast Monday dinner Tuesday dinner Wednesday dinner ingredients Wednesday dinner ingredients Wednesday dinner Friday dinner Yes, this was a post of the delicious food I this week. Muahaha.
失礼します
失礼します: excuse me! Sorry I haven’t updated about my week! For some reason, even though my commute time to school and back is about half and I don’t have constant internet/Facebook to distract me, I seem to be staying up later doing homework than I was at HSH! I even forget what I’ve done this past week already…it’s been so crazy! On Monday and Friday my host dad drove me to school because I...
楽しい週末
楽しい週末: fun weekend This past weekend was pretty busy for me. On Friday, Sam had to stay behind for a catch-up lesson with her teacher, so I decided to stay behind and do kanji homework while I waited for her. I ended up just doing a practice TOEFL test with Natalie and hanging out with Sam’s buddy Ryokan. When Sam was finished, we went to visit Ryokan’s campus, which is about a 5 min walk from my...
嬉しい！
嬉しい: happy I know I haven’t posted in a SUPER long time! The past weekend has been crazy! I just moved into my host family’s house yesterday, but I don’t have internet in my room, so I have to use the computer room. I don’t want to spend too much time in there, so I wrote an entry last night in Word and saved it for today (: Today was the first day of my homestay, and my...
September 2011
17 posts
よく勉強した方がいいと思てる
よく勉強した方がいいと思てる: it would be good to study well Happy Weekend, everyone! We have SO much homework for this weekend due Monday: 1. Read the next chapter and prepare a 説明 (explanation) on the grammar introduced. 2. 漢字読み書テスト (Kanji reading and writing test) on 10 new kanji introduced Friday. 3. Worksheet for the 10 new kanji. 4. Grammer cloze test for the past 3 会話 (conversations) we memorized,...
たぶん...
たぶん: maybe I just discovered the tumblr app in my itouch! Guess what I’m going to be tweaking on during Japanese Economics class from now on? Too bad we have half an hour left in this period before our 10 min break and I have poop like crazy. Curse you, かつ玉子とじ丼 (chicken katsu with soft scrambled eggs over rice) that I ate for lunch!
質問あるの？
質問あるの: does anyone have questions? If there’s anything you want me to write about in regards to Japan, feel free to shoot me a FB message! :D If you can’t figure out how to send me a FB message…well, しょがないね.
気をつけて！
気をつけて: took care Today (Wednesday), classes got cancelled because a typhoon is coming. It seemed silly because all this morning it was raining, but we joked that if this is what Japan calls a typhoon, it’s what we call “Wednesday” in Oregon. I didn’t even use my umbrella some of the time because it was drizzling so lightly. However, before we left HSH, the guard warned us...
しんぱいなんだ
しんぱいなんだ: I’m worried! We had a pretty epic past couple of days. On Friday, we had an official welcome party for all the 留学生, not just the American ones. So there were girls from China and Korea there also that we met for the first time. Their Japanese is a jillion times better than us. I realized how socially awkward I am. We all broke up into different groups, so I was separated from my...
やりたくない
やりたくない: don’t want to do I don’t want to do my homework. The End. PS: Monday didn’t go as horribly as it could have. I studied for a good solid 9 hours on just Japanese. I don’t even know how that was possible. I’ve never spent so much time studying for a single class in my entire lifetime. I don’t think I’ve even spent 9 hours studying for a college...
決して忘れない
決して忘れない: never forget It’s September 11, 2011 here in Japan. Never forget what happened 10 years ago. Yeah, I’ve spent half my life in the wake of 9/11. Trippy, huh?
日曜日
日曜日: Sunday I’ll update about what we did on Saturday a little later after I do some homework. We have Japanese class from 9-2:30 tomorrow with a 50 min lunch break. Yeah, I know, that sucks. Plus we have a TON of homework for tomorrow: 1. presenting a report that we wrote on what people do on the train (from memory); 2. taking a grammar cloze test (yes, cloze is apparently an English word...
アメヤ横丁
アメヤ横丁: Ameya Alley Friday after school we went all the way up to Ueno (past Tokyo) because some of the 留学生 wanted to visit the Buddhist exhibit at the museum. Didn’t really sound too exciting to me, so another group was going to go see the famous Ueno panda at the zoo, which is conveniently super close to the museum and across the street from the train station. However, it takes ~1 hour to...
祭り
祭り: festival Yesterday (Wednesday) was the funnest day so far!! Well…except for the whole 3 hours of Japanese class. We had class from 9-12:10, and then were done for the day!! One of the overseers of HSH told us there was a festival going on at the beach in honor of the shrine, so we decided to head down there before it got dark. However first, we explored a little around 新逗子駅 and found...
宿題が多い
宿題が多い: so much homework! 多い (おおい) is one of the kanji we learned in class on Monday. Actually, I’m technically already supposed to know it, but I didn’t haha. During the interview on Saturday, I told the 日本語の先生 that we learned ~200 kanji, which is true. However, I probably only remember ~100 of them well. PLUS, she’s hoping to have us memorize ~500 kanji by the end of the...
親子丼
親子丼: Japanese dish with chicken, eggs, & onions (etc.) over rice 親子丼 is one of my favorite dishes now! Not only is it super good, the name is super cute too! 親子 is “parent-child” and I asked one of the buddies why a food dish is called 親子. They said that the chicken is the “parent” and the egg is the “child”, so you really are eating an 親子! I felt guilty at...
“Dad: HI wins! HI 34 CO 17
Mom: Yay…it was televised nationally
Dad: Yes...”
– Mom & Dad group conversation win.
しょがない
しょがない: can’t be helped Interesting story on how I learned this phrase, which has become one of my favorites. Koki-kun (I call him うんこうき^_^) was making farting noises with his hands, and I suddenly said “すみません！” (excuse me!) and asked Koki how to say “I can’t help it” and he taught me to say “すみません、しょがない！” (excuse me, it can’t be helped!) and...
むし暑い
むし暑い: humid So much has happened this week! 1. My room is AWESOME. We each have our own room furnished with an individual bathroom, closet, tv, refrigerator, desk, and ac! It’s nice to have a room to myself for once, but it’s nice that all of the 留学生 (exchange students) are on the same floor and next door to each other. 2. The only place in Hayama Seminar House is in the communal...
August 2011
1 post
ようこそ！
ようこそ=welcome Hello from Japan!!
It’s been a long few days since I left HNL at 12noon on Sunday. I finally arrived at Hayama Seminar House at 12midnight on Monday/Tuesday (5am Monday morning HI time). Tuesday we had orientation at Hayama Seminar House and walked around the town. Wednesday we travelled to Kanto Gakuin University for orientation and finally bought our cell phones! For some...