by Whitey | Jun 13, 2008 | Weekly Re-Cap
This week… 1. I found out how I did on last week’s big test. It was pass, but not nearly as good as I’d have liked. I’m also kind of weak on my kanji and vocabulary. It was a bit of a wake-up call — I need to take it up a notch, and put...
by Whitey | Jun 6, 2008 | Weekly Re-Cap
Thoughts on the week… 1. Too many tests! I had a big one yesterday, and lots of not-so big ones literally every day. We’ve come to the end of the first textbook, which means it’s all-new stuff from here. Which means I should add about an hour to my...
by Whitey | May 30, 2008 | Weekly Re-Cap
It seems like it was a pretty quiet week, but here’s a look at school and life here this week, such as it was… School is moving along quickly, though. In fact, we’re getting into stuff I don’t really know that well and by the end of the week...
by Whitey | May 24, 2008 | Weekly Re-Cap
It’s Saturday morning, and I’m taking it slow and easy. It’s been a full week, and it seems I’ve not spent a lot of time at home. Or when I was home I was studying. So today I’m staying in. All day. It’ll be nice to relax, but...
by Whitey | May 16, 2008 | Weekly Re-Cap
Here’s some stuff going through my head tonight, and in my life this week, in no particular order: 1. Now that I’ve been learning Kanji for a few weeks now, I find myself recognizing — and actually knowing the meaning of — kanji I see in the...
by Whitey | May 9, 2008 | Weekly Re-Cap
Golden Week was this past week here in Japan. It’s a cluster of holidays that all happen within the same week. This year, one of the holidays was last Tuesday, two were this week (Monday and Tuesday), and one landed on Saturday (boo). If people are going to use...