Grade 9 is cuture, Grade 10 is food, and this year is...Prefecture project. Thankfully, I managed to get Hyogo Prefecture and keep it, since someone else wanted to research it.

If not Hyogo, I probably would have done Saitama (for various reasons... :D) But I'm getting off topic.
I would have used more kanji, but I was actually using this to practice ( Read more... )

I heard my first "semi-enka" ("semi", since it was an anime character single) song when I listened to Misoji Misaki by Hiromi Konno. And I thought it was awesome.

But real female enka singers do some crazy things with their voices.
If my parents aren't home, maybe I'll try it XDDD

In any case, I was browsing the Wikipedia article for enka and found ( Read more... )

For my Japanese speech project, I had to write about "my treasure ( Read more... )

ZOMG, Naruto, Hana no Namae, Girl in Heels, Billion Girl, Code: Breaker...
And THREE (yes, THREE) updates for Faster Than a Kiss!!!

*is happy*

And in band related news, our band has started learning Lassus Trombone. And some stuff by Gershwin and Bach.

My life would be perfect right now, if only my Japanese teacher hadn't made us sing Lion Heart (by ( Read more... )

A while ago, my dad installed all these Japanese-language related apps on my computer (I'm an Ubuntu user ( Read more... )

Manga: Skip Beat (yay), Vampire Knight (yay!), and...xxxHOLiC! (YAAAYYY ( Read more... )

Turns out, in my Japanese classroom, there was a poster for JLPT.
Registration is September 2~October 2.

Must...study. And ask parents. I think the fee is $60 or so.

Around May or so, there was a parade that I participated in (but that's not the point of this post). After it finished, I went to my local second hand bookstore and found out they had a foreign section. And that it had stuff in Japanese.

"Well, that's just great!" I thought. So I bought two of the books. One was a Japanese translation of "Andersen's ( Read more... )

I was researching on the internet a few months ago and got this crazy notion that JLPT would not be held in Vancouver anymore. At the time, I was literally wigging out, because if it were true, I'd have to go all the way to Toronto to take the test. Even if I don't use ever use Japanese when I''m an adult, it's still a goal of mine. Thank God I ( Read more... )