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A (school) year in review

So its now been about a month since I’ve returned from Japan. I guess that means I’m now supposed to wrap up my 8 month long blog with one last post where I reflect on the good and bad, and ponder on the experiences I gained and such and such. But I figured [...]

Blah..

I am currently working on the final post for this blog. I’ve been really busy with other things (especially moving into the new house) so give it a bit and it will be done.
And to all the friends that I told like a week ago that I’d call, I’m sorry…..give me another day or [...]

CLASSES ARE OVER!!!!!! JCMU WA OWARIMASHITA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, classes at JCMU are finally over!!! Today was the closing ceremony, where this semester Dr. Johnson had an actual speech, and the distinguished guests who came had either short boring speeches or longer interesting speeches. That and I actually got a certificate this time around (last semester those of us staying for [...]

Japanese Speech

私の日本語のスピーチは終わりました!これから、日本語の最後の試験があって、七日にアメリカに帰ります! これで私のスピーチです。ちょっとつまらないですが、予定がなければ、どうぞ:
日本の都会の町と田舎の町
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世界で東京は一番人が多い町です。東京の人口密度は五千五百人につき一平方キロメートルです。東京の物価も高すぎます。大学生にとって家とアパートの料金は払いにくいし、部屋の大きさも小さいです。東京は超高層ビルで有名ですがお城とか寺とかいろいろな歴史や文化の所ではあまり有名じゃないと思います。でも一方で、東京はいい点もあります。地下鉄や電車がとても便利だしかんたんに乗れることです。それに東京の人はなまりがないからそこで日本語の勉強がしやすいです。その上、東京にはたくさん外国人がいるし外国の会社も多いので外国人にとって仕事を探す時はやさしくて色々な人と英語で話せます。でも英語話がち日本語の学生とって悪い点かもしれません。
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私のスピーチのために十五人ぐらいのJCMUの学生に“都会と田舎の町と日本語学生にとってどちらがいいと思うか”聞きました。そして、色々なへんじをもらいました。聞いた学生の三分の一は田舎の町の方がいいと思っていました。田舎の町で英語を話せる人が少ないから日本語の勉強がもっとかんたんだという理由でこのへんじをもらいました。しかし、三分の二の学生は都会の方が好きです。田舎の町よりもっと色々な人に会えるし、旅行するのが便利だし、大都市の人たちは外国人をじろじろ見ないからだというへんじをもらいました。
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My new itinerary

Well I’ve just talked to someone at Northwest Airlines (whose computer, just as I gave them the data on my flight, crashed and then I had to wait like 15 minutes for her to reboot), and changed my flight to April 16. My aisle seat is now gone, so its going to be 12 [...]

So, is it 12 days left…or 11?

Well today we had a big meeting for all the students concerning departure information. The usual blah blah then is when we have to leave, you have to have your room inspected. Well, I knew that people had to be out of the dorms on April 16, and with my flight leaving April [...]

Japanese Civilization Class field trip #4

April 1 saw the fourth and final field trip for my Japanese Civilization class. Our destination: Hikone castle. I wasn’t especially thrilled to go there, mostly because I’ve already been there once and it was pretty disappointing the first time. I’ve since been to many other castles in this country, including Himeji [...]

And in other news…

I’m getting another roommate. Yes, #5 in 8 months. I received this email from Karen the other day:
We are possibly going to have 2 new female B-Program students moving into
the Residence. If they do, they will be your new roommates, and will stay on
here after you go home. While we are not sure [...]

Stuck in an infinite time loop….

So my previous blog post about going to Kyoto to see sakura, I just tired to post it at 2:06am here in Japan, and an interesting thing happened: it wouldn’t show up on my site. I couldn’t figure out why, until I saw it told me it was a “Scheduled Entries” that would be [...]

18 days left!!

There’s only 18 days left until I am back in the US. I cannot wait to get out of JCMU and Japan. I love Japan, but I just need to go home. Some developments of late:
-Yesterday we actually had a thunderstorm, lightning and all. This is only the second time in [...]