So here’s another couple of things that I wanted to mention that don’t go anywhere else. A couple weeks ago our Friday Project was called E-Tegami (which in Japanese basically means picture letter), which involved us painting pictures of fruits and flowers onto postcards and then writing short letters to someone on them. So here is a picture of the two that I made:

The one on the left has a painting of a violet and has written お母さん、お元気ですか。淋しい。会いたい。which translates out to ‘Mom, how are you? I can’t wait to see you.’ which Melville-sensei and Nishikawa-sensei both said was something very Japanese to say and would make any Japanese mom cry (aww…). The one on the right features a turnip (yeah they gave it to us…so we had to paint it) and says 楽しみにしている。 which means ‘I’m looking forward to it!’. I wrote this just because….its a random set phrase in Japanese and has nothing to do with the turnip and just sounded…good.

In other news, here’s a picture of the puzzle I did over spring break. It took me only about 4 hours to do, which is a little disappointing to me since I had hoped it would be more of a challenge. But, I still have a 1000-piece to go!