5 weeks to go!
Yep, I'm counting down to my Christmas holiday already. Honestly, the prospect of Christmas hasn't been this exciting since I was little. The only bad thing will be being away from my boyfriend for two and a half weeks but I dare say it'll do us both some good and I intend to stay too busy to be lonely.
My English lessons on Friday both wound up being about the origins of the Cornish pasty which is testament to my current preoccupation. Who knows, next week could be about Thorntons toffee...
*Drool*
So, I had my first real tests of the term on Friday which went neither too badly or too well. Thankfully I've reached the state where I just don't care. After literally working myself ragged last term to keep passing the bar which they raised twice having already taken our money, I still wound up having to beg my way through to the next level. Since nothing I do apparently matters, Yamasa can fuck the hell off.
With that early resolution, life has gotten a little more bearable here in grey old Okazaki. I'm reconnecting with anime and manga - namely anime though as I'm watching Vampire Knight Guilty and Kuroshitsuji. As for manga, I've finally started investing in the native language editions but sadly I don't find them as pretty as the Tokyopop translations. Still, Fruits Basket is Fruits basket whatever the language. Plus I'm reading this full colour manga about a lost kitten called Chii and a beautiful hardback compilation of Chibi Marco-chan stories. Neither are very ambitious I grant you, but I hate having to read with a dictionary permanently on hand.
In other news, is anyone watching the HBO series, True Blood? I'm loving it! What is it about vampires? Plus I have Top Gear, Crusoe, Merlin, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, Vampire Knight Guilty, Kuroshitsuji, Boston Legal and Bones every week which means, at long bloody last, SOMETHING NEW TO WATCH!! I've watched everything else I have so many times I'm surprised I can't see through the disks yet.
Anyway, I'm off. My hands are too cold to type anymore. (Yay Winter!)
Ja ne!
My English lessons on Friday both wound up being about the origins of the Cornish pasty which is testament to my current preoccupation. Who knows, next week could be about Thorntons toffee...
*Drool*
So, I had my first real tests of the term on Friday which went neither too badly or too well. Thankfully I've reached the state where I just don't care. After literally working myself ragged last term to keep passing the bar which they raised twice having already taken our money, I still wound up having to beg my way through to the next level. Since nothing I do apparently matters, Yamasa can fuck the hell off.
With that early resolution, life has gotten a little more bearable here in grey old Okazaki. I'm reconnecting with anime and manga - namely anime though as I'm watching Vampire Knight Guilty and Kuroshitsuji. As for manga, I've finally started investing in the native language editions but sadly I don't find them as pretty as the Tokyopop translations. Still, Fruits Basket is Fruits basket whatever the language. Plus I'm reading this full colour manga about a lost kitten called Chii and a beautiful hardback compilation of Chibi Marco-chan stories. Neither are very ambitious I grant you, but I hate having to read with a dictionary permanently on hand.
In other news, is anyone watching the HBO series, True Blood? I'm loving it! What is it about vampires? Plus I have Top Gear, Crusoe, Merlin, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, Vampire Knight Guilty, Kuroshitsuji, Boston Legal and Bones every week which means, at long bloody last, SOMETHING NEW TO WATCH!! I've watched everything else I have so many times I'm surprised I can't see through the disks yet.
Anyway, I'm off. My hands are too cold to type anymore. (Yay Winter!)
Ja ne!