Tomorrow!
For various reasons, two weeks ago, I feel a week behind in schoolwork. I have worked harder than I’ve ever worked for school, caught up, and I’m now almost finished with finals – just one more to go. A couple days after that, I’ll be starting my internship at ReadyTalk, and so the summer is starting to kick off more or less.
The 15th sees my friends and me moving into a place for a summer that promises to be filled with hanging out, organically grown food (Alan works on an organic farm), and wine.
Yes, yes, it’s over.
This has been an interesting semester, and I’ve certainly learned a lot about myself and Japanese. Also, about the Japanese.
Last night I began studying for my last final (Kanji), by trying to learn about 100 kanji that were going to be on the test. It is virtually impossible to learn that many kanji in that amount of time (trying to double my kanji vocabulary overnight), but I had to try.
Test today, went alright.
Got a shirt I ordered in the mail:
Lastly, heading to Sapporo in a few days for the Snow Festival. When I feel more energetic/alive, I will say more. In the mean time, please enjoy this wonderful show called “Duders.” It’s a little rough, but I think it could be/will be good.
On 01.11.07, In break, By Dan
This has been the first week back to school after break. Interestingly enough, there’s only about three weeks left until we get back to break, this time for two months. What does that break hold? Who knows.
Things that will happen for certain: snow festival and snowboarding.
Every year in Sapporo, they have a snow festival that lasts for like six days. Colin and others and I are planning to go, maybe be by train. My hope, however, is that we go by boat. Freezing waters of Japan? Hell yeah.
As far as snowboarding goes, mostly a matter of when friends want to go. A lot of Colin, Keith, Zhou Peng, Nicolas, and we might even invite New York’s own John from down the hall.
In preparation, I went out and bought グロブs (we call them gloves) from Mont Bell downtown. They are by far the nicest and most expensive gloves I’ve ever bought in my life, but man, are they comfortable. I’m looking forward to hitting the slopes (maybe this weekend), just to wear them.