The baseball teams. The epitome of so discipline in Japan. I imagine if there were samurai in modern Japan, it would be the baseball players. The American in me is constantly astounded by their philosophies and self imposed discipline, and amused or sometimes baffled, by their behavior.  Today I came back from (almost) getting lunch to find them ( Read more... )

JLPT is on one month. The Japanese Language Proficency Test. There are 4 levels, 4 being very basic "I can read  at a first grader level (maybe)" and 1 being "I can read better than the average Japanese, ha! Take THAT Japan ( Read more... )

Yesterday in class I drew a simple graph on the white board. The X axis is a simple dotted line, and the Y doesn't even appear. Starting from the far left a single curved line begins on the X axis and climbs steeply to some given point, then drops equally steeply until it reaches the X and levels out. This process is then repeated below. I asked ( Read more... )