Amanda visited Tokyo last weekend!
On Friday I showed her my school and the area where I live and we ate huge Hawaiian hamburgers, and that night went to a small cafe that looked like someone's dining room owned by an old lady.  Saturday was huge.  We went to Ueno Park, seeing the Tokugawa family shrine and laughing at animals in the zoo.  Then we ( Read more... )

Hey, I liked this year.  Since January I have ( Read more... )

I hung out with a bunch of friends yesterday: some friends from my work last year, and some of my best friends that I don't get to see too often, as well as their friends.  And the whole time, I felt the need to bust out a sentence or something in Japanese.  Or even a word.  I didn't care.  It was just so natural for me to say random things in ( Read more... )

This month was a pleasant repatriation back to NCC and Naperville.

- I've been working about 10 hours a week at my brand spankin new job (as of the beginning of the month) at the LRC (Language Resource Center) in Larrance.  I basically get paid to sit around and do nothing.  Sure, I do actual work, such as burning some stuff to DVD's and ( Read more... )

A few things of note happened today.

First, I decided to drop my marketing minor (before I even began it) in order to take whimsical history classes.  I thought to myself, "Hmmm.... which of these seems more interesting, a marketing minor or the history of Russia?".  And now I have officially dropped my Economics Statistics and Marketing classes ( Read more... )

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