Ohayou Gozaimasu!

[jedishampoo]

So after graduating from university in 2000, I finally broke down and re-entered the world of higher education to take a class in Japanese at the local community college. :) It was super-cheap; $240 for four credit hours!! But the book was $110, half the price of the class. I'd forgotten college BOOK PRICES. And believe it or not, in my first class I was shocked to learn that there would be HOMEWORK. It really hasn't been that long since I was in school, I'd just sorta wiped it all from my brain out of relief at finally getting my BA.

First-year Japanese here doesn't cover kanji, only hiragana and katakana. And I've had to make flash cards to learn them. Wow, it really is rather difficult. Ah well, now maybe if I try really hard, I can learn to somewhat better read all of my Howl's Moving Castle doujinshi, and listen to all of my anime in Japanese rather than doing the dubbed versions. ;) And I will at least know how to say "Good Morning" (ohayou gozaimasu) when my Mom and I go to Japan in September for WORLDCON!

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[nmissi.livejournal.com]

Total across-the-board jealousy, dear. Mostly for the language classes, but also for the trip to JAPAN! And yes, I'm still working on leaving a young and lovely corpse. Smoke a couple of indoor-building puffs for me, please. I'll live vicariously through you. Ooh... see if they'll let you have one in a theatre; I've always wanted to be able to smoke at the movies...