38 days ...
~.: I had the worst Japanese class ever today. While going over the uses of "V-dictionary form toki" and "V-ta form toki" I got so frustrated because I couldn't understand its uses that I actually broke down and cried. In class. And proceeded to sniffle and sob for the last ten minutes while Nakagawa-sensei continued on with the lesson.
~.: Tatoeba: Nihon e iku toki, hikouki de kimashita. This is using past tense in the future. W. T. F. I chock it up to Japan's not wanting to take responsibility for ANYTHING. Comfort women never existed; Japan shouldn't have to apologize. And other such ridiculous things that we learned about in class. Because, if you speak about the past as if it hasn't happened yet, then you don't have to take responsibility. So to say "at the time when I was coming to Japan, though I had not yet reached Japan, though I am in Japan now and am referring to a time when this time didn't exist, I used an airplane." Because "Nihon e iku toki, hikouki de kimashita" translates roughly to just that.
~.: It doesn't help that I have resigned myself to the butt-whipping that Japanese and Japan have subjected me to, I am PMSing, and homesick. My brain is so frazzled that it's even hard for me to understand the difference between "V-dictionary form toki" and "V-ta form toki" in their own contexts. And it also doesn't help that I'm trying to translate the Japanese into English as translated into Spanish. -.-; I just hate Japan and Japanese right now, and I want so desperately to go home. I have reached the peak of my homesickness this week and I'm afraid that it's going to continue like this until I can go home. Although, today I figured out what I'm going to do during my 5-hour layover in San Fransisco. Since America, much more civilized than Japan (and if anyone comments on this comment on America > Japan, I will shoot you because this is my space to rant, and since I am in the crappiest mood ever I'm going to rant and I will not appreciate any comments in Japan's defense right now, or in America's offense for that matter, unless it's about politics, in which case, knock yourself out) accepts credit cards, I will buy myself American food from the American airport and appreciate being able to use American table manners as I eat. It will be the best cheeseburger (I'm hoping for cheeseburger at this point) I have ever eaten.
~.: It also really bothers me when people have to comment that they think it's ridiculous when a person respects their body enough and the relationship between their body and their spouse enough to not want to display it on national TV, however covered in paint it may be. Not a personal attack on you, just on your comment, which also really bothered me today but I thought it was better not to start a fight and just kept it to myself. I love you and forgive you for it, but really, name-calling is so uncalled for in that situation.
~.: On a better note, Good Omens is a really good book, and I'm glad it's funny.
~.: Tatoeba: Nihon e iku toki, hikouki de kimashita. This is using past tense in the future. W. T. F. I chock it up to Japan's not wanting to take responsibility for ANYTHING. Comfort women never existed; Japan shouldn't have to apologize. And other such ridiculous things that we learned about in class. Because, if you speak about the past as if it hasn't happened yet, then you don't have to take responsibility. So to say "at the time when I was coming to Japan, though I had not yet reached Japan, though I am in Japan now and am referring to a time when this time didn't exist, I used an airplane." Because "Nihon e iku toki, hikouki de kimashita" translates roughly to just that.
~.: It doesn't help that I have resigned myself to the butt-whipping that Japanese and Japan have subjected me to, I am PMSing, and homesick. My brain is so frazzled that it's even hard for me to understand the difference between "V-dictionary form toki" and "V-ta form toki" in their own contexts. And it also doesn't help that I'm trying to translate the Japanese into English as translated into Spanish. -.-; I just hate Japan and Japanese right now, and I want so desperately to go home. I have reached the peak of my homesickness this week and I'm afraid that it's going to continue like this until I can go home. Although, today I figured out what I'm going to do during my 5-hour layover in San Fransisco. Since America, much more civilized than Japan (and if anyone comments on this comment on America > Japan, I will shoot you because this is my space to rant, and since I am in the crappiest mood ever I'm going to rant and I will not appreciate any comments in Japan's defense right now, or in America's offense for that matter, unless it's about politics, in which case, knock yourself out) accepts credit cards, I will buy myself American food from the American airport and appreciate being able to use American table manners as I eat. It will be the best cheeseburger (I'm hoping for cheeseburger at this point) I have ever eaten.
~.: It also really bothers me when people have to comment that they think it's ridiculous when a person respects their body enough and the relationship between their body and their spouse enough to not want to display it on national TV, however covered in paint it may be. Not a personal attack on you, just on your comment, which also really bothered me today but I thought it was better not to start a fight and just kept it to myself. I love you and forgive you for it, but really, name-calling is so uncalled for in that situation.
~.: On a better note, Good Omens is a really good book, and I'm glad it's funny.