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Been a long time… again. | March 7, 2010

I fail at keeping regular blogs. I need to work on that. Looking back through previous posts, I think I need to do more spell-checking before posting too. I type so fast I sometimes miss things.

Anyway, Ben has left now. It broke my heart to see him leave. We had a mini-adventure getting to Narita, poor Ben lugging that suitcase around. I would have been amused had I not realised my suitcase is far bigger and I’d have to lug that across Tokyo alone and with a heavy backpack and a laptop case. It concerns me a little.
The apartment hasn’t been right without him, even though I was here for nearly 4 months before he arrived and his stay was but a month, everything reminds me of him, and I’m feeling very homesick.
Luckily it hasn’t affected my uni work as much as my homesickness did last semester.
I’ve been doing really well in Japanese this semester. Most quizzes I get full marks or almost full marks, I’ve gotten A grades on all my speeches but the last one (which was a B), My lowest (known) exam score was 78% and highest was 90%, the ones inbetween were 80% and 87%.
All of my sakubun have been B grades or B+ grades.
And from the looks of my final exam yesterday, I have definately passed JLP3 this time round. Full attendance, everything handed in on time, all formation drills done. I’m predicting a low B grade overall, but I could have dropped as low as a C grade depending on how it all tallies up. I was aiming for an A grade though.
EDIT: Got my results on Friday 5th March – hell yeah! I got a B, and it was pretty damn high too. Got Just under 87% so just short of the 90% required for an A. Very pleased and now hoping to study hard for J4 and even learn some J5 stuff too.

But today I start “spring break” as they call it here. I’d like to call it “extended Easter holidays” as rather than the 2 weeks I would get off back home, I have a full 6 weeks free of classes.
Alas, I am not free really as I have vowed to myself not to waste this time.
I need to study, study, study so I can keep up with the rigours of J4. It is apparently wickedly difficult and I only got my B in J3 this semester because I had the practice of doing it all a semester before… So I have my textbook and my kanji book, loads of new stationary and a load of free time.
I just haven’t had much in the way of enthusiasm.
My time management is terrible, especially when I am having sleeping troubles. I find myself unable to sleep til dawn and then sleeping my way through the day. I am officially nocturnal.
I’ve been watching a lot of television programmes lately. I am almost caught up on Heroes, I’ve seen all of True Blood, have just started Season 3 of Sex and the City, seen all of the cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender and plan on watching a lot of other shows I missed when they were on tv the first time round. Like Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, 24, House, Supernatural and so on. I also watched the phenomenon that is Glee. It was amazing, I loved it! I am going to buy the DVD (or Bluray) when I get home. And the soundtracks. It was so good. I love Will Shuester and Sue Sylvester. They are such good characters. I find it weird how much the guy playying Shuester looks like Justin Timberlake though. JT with a prosthetic chin. Sue Sylvester is comedy gold though. She is so quotable!

Anyways, I am hoping to be more regular in updates. I am going to try and study a little everyday, then post my learnings here. So this is kinda a Japan Diary blog and a Language blog.
I promise to pay more attention to my spelling too. Typing fast on a laptop keyboard is so awkward though…

I started writing this on Feb 25th… only now finished it and posted it. How lazy am I?

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