I made yakiimo (roasted sweet potato) last night in the little tiny gas grill in my stove. It took like an hour, but they were hella tasty. Also kind-of successfully made chinjaorousu, Chinese stir-fried beef and veggies, and put it in my lunch. Yesterday was shitty, but every day is a new one, so it's okay ( Read more... )

Pulled out my little booklet of last year's Japanese Proficiency Exam and took the Vocab and Reading Comp sections of Level 1 (I forgot my cd player so I can't do the listening comp parts just yet...) and- hey! Got an 85% on the first part and a 92% on the second. I think one has to get a total score of 80% or more and over 50% on every section to ( Read more... )