it is APRILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL and im 21 =D
i wish there were more people on my livejournal... im being picky about where i write in order to avoid certain people reading my journal (im assuming).
well, its 2pm in Japan and i woke up a little too late to do any serious studying (as usual) and soon will have to get ready for a dance held by a boys dorm at a club in shinjuku. im pretty excited for that, but i wish more girls i knew were going. i really do need to study though. ive been putting aside time to socialize considering i only have a few months left here. no choice but to make the most out of what little time i have. so im scraping the walls thin, gathering as much energy as possible to glide through these next few months.
its really windy today... it was really windy yesterday. its also warm. supposed to rain today. the weather is crazy here =S not sure if im down with it.
so waseda students are two weeks deep into the semester and already i feel the pressure of my classes. ive seriously got about 400 pages of reading to do for this coming week (not counting fiction i should be reading as well). my arms and legs are flapping wildly as i try to reach the surface.. impossible.. the water is not water, but mud. im going to stay as positive as i can and not let anything really get to me. although, i havent had time to let anything sink it, which is why i feel writing is the only way i can sort out my thoughts and figure out what has gone on the past three, four weeks.
i went to kyoto and it was beautiful. the cherry blossoms.. tulips... i like kyoto's atmosphere. i really do want to study there, so maybe that will be my goal for the near future. i have no intention of finishing school anytime soon.. if somehow i graduate with a japanese major or a double major within the next couple years, hopefully i study in kyoto within that time or go to graduate school in japan. i just know i havent got my fill of japan yet (plus i need to become fluent!). i know for sure i will become fluent in this language.. theres no way im putting all this into studying the language without coming out fluent in the end.
so i went there, came back to tokyo and right away started school. im taking business law (complicated and interesting), historical survey of east asia (tons of reading), a literature class about haruki murakami (i love murakami), Japanese (required. not challenging enough), and a Japanese elective (learning tons in the class). this semester will be the most challenging in my college career so far... though that chem class i took at sierra college really kicked my butt (then again i was 16?)
okay enough about "serious" stuff... let me move onto people.
im already getting tired of typing about myself... i feel like i should be getting ready or studying =\
its 2:20 now.
okay so this is the beginning of the skool yr for waseda and japanese skools in general, so there are a lot of young freshman that are all excited, joining clubs, meeting new people... since i participate in the international circle (club), ive been meeting a few 18, 19, 20 yrs old freshman. many of these kids havent hung out with a foreigner before so it can get pretty interesting. the crazy outgoing person i am (im outgoing when i make fun of a situation because it feels artificial or because its simple boring), ive had the opportunity to meet some people (guys). oh i forgot to mention that the guy i was going after since december decided that he just wants to be friends, so we had this talk in the park (in japanese... couldnt really understand).. and yeah. it hurts and im trying not to think about it too much. iuno, so far this semester is interesting. im super glad that my communication skillz in japanese have improved. compared to last semester, im actually able to understand simple sentences! woo! lol.. i havent improved a whole lot becuz i stayed indoors a lot last semester.. it was just so exhausting to put myself out there... now that i have some basic skillz down, i dont get exhausted as easily.
okay its 230.. im gonna get ready. im getting anxious. cant breath. eh Oh blaaaaaah
well, its 2pm in Japan and i woke up a little too late to do any serious studying (as usual) and soon will have to get ready for a dance held by a boys dorm at a club in shinjuku. im pretty excited for that, but i wish more girls i knew were going. i really do need to study though. ive been putting aside time to socialize considering i only have a few months left here. no choice but to make the most out of what little time i have. so im scraping the walls thin, gathering as much energy as possible to glide through these next few months.
its really windy today... it was really windy yesterday. its also warm. supposed to rain today. the weather is crazy here =S not sure if im down with it.
so waseda students are two weeks deep into the semester and already i feel the pressure of my classes. ive seriously got about 400 pages of reading to do for this coming week (not counting fiction i should be reading as well). my arms and legs are flapping wildly as i try to reach the surface.. impossible.. the water is not water, but mud. im going to stay as positive as i can and not let anything really get to me. although, i havent had time to let anything sink it, which is why i feel writing is the only way i can sort out my thoughts and figure out what has gone on the past three, four weeks.
i went to kyoto and it was beautiful. the cherry blossoms.. tulips... i like kyoto's atmosphere. i really do want to study there, so maybe that will be my goal for the near future. i have no intention of finishing school anytime soon.. if somehow i graduate with a japanese major or a double major within the next couple years, hopefully i study in kyoto within that time or go to graduate school in japan. i just know i havent got my fill of japan yet (plus i need to become fluent!). i know for sure i will become fluent in this language.. theres no way im putting all this into studying the language without coming out fluent in the end.
so i went there, came back to tokyo and right away started school. im taking business law (complicated and interesting), historical survey of east asia (tons of reading), a literature class about haruki murakami (i love murakami), Japanese (required. not challenging enough), and a Japanese elective (learning tons in the class). this semester will be the most challenging in my college career so far... though that chem class i took at sierra college really kicked my butt (then again i was 16?)
okay enough about "serious" stuff... let me move onto people.
im already getting tired of typing about myself... i feel like i should be getting ready or studying =\
its 2:20 now.
okay so this is the beginning of the skool yr for waseda and japanese skools in general, so there are a lot of young freshman that are all excited, joining clubs, meeting new people... since i participate in the international circle (club), ive been meeting a few 18, 19, 20 yrs old freshman. many of these kids havent hung out with a foreigner before so it can get pretty interesting. the crazy outgoing person i am (im outgoing when i make fun of a situation because it feels artificial or because its simple boring), ive had the opportunity to meet some people (guys). oh i forgot to mention that the guy i was going after since december decided that he just wants to be friends, so we had this talk in the park (in japanese... couldnt really understand).. and yeah. it hurts and im trying not to think about it too much. iuno, so far this semester is interesting. im super glad that my communication skillz in japanese have improved. compared to last semester, im actually able to understand simple sentences! woo! lol.. i havent improved a whole lot becuz i stayed indoors a lot last semester.. it was just so exhausting to put myself out there... now that i have some basic skillz down, i dont get exhausted as easily.
okay its 230.. im gonna get ready. im getting anxious. cant breath. eh Oh blaaaaaah