目的
Regardless of where I am or how much I reject some of that espoused by American culture, I'm American and so my mind is constantly stuck on objectives. Not having the availability of a formal second class and having to deal with what other students are filling with 10 hours of language class by "independent study" has also, probably moreso, stressed me into formulating objectives.
Academically, I need to:
1) Complete JA390, which consists of a daily culture journal, readings of a very interesting book, and a few presentations over trips we take to both Akihabara and Kamakura
2) Complete an independent study about business in Japan. This step, in June, will consist of creating and executing a handful of interviews with both foreigners and Japanese people who have experience dealing with companies, negotiations, and other various business factors.
That's it. Hmm. I feel like step two won't take 10 hours a week, so I feel like I must do even more. A possible third objective will be 能力試験にある漢字を一生懸命勉強してる, or, fervently studying kanjis that will show up on the JLPT. I'm keeping a notebook of ones that I can't read and I think I might break out the 教科書 (textbook) from last semester that we didn't finish.
All academic... loser! So onto social objectives.
Honestly, right now these are very limited. I want to do Karaoke, I want to play DDR in Japan. I'm not sure what else. Would it be wrong to have "eat whale (ONE TIME)" as one of my social goals? I feel like if I was fluent I would technically be able to go out and see the world of Japan, socialize with people my age who don't speak a lick of English, and all that, but it seems very ambitious. Knowing myself, I laugh at the thought of that social butterflyism, and even if I passed 一級 (the insane level of the JLPT), I bet I'd still be all shy.
So I suppose my biggest social objective is to find some more social objectives. Outside of these, over the month of June I'm going to write a ton of postcards to people back home and from the guild. I ought to start soon since I'll be writing so many.
From the top to here, I'm just bleeding American, huh?
それから。。
I'll show you my breakfast. Check out the pic here.
説明 - i forgot how a bunch of the kanji's go, some items are incomplete :(
お茶 tea
ご飯 rice
とろろ昆布のすまし汁 seaweed soup
目玉焼き fried egg (literally, fried eyeball.. weird!)
しゃけの塩焼 salty salmon
ほうれん草のゴマあえ spinach and sesame
昆布のつくだ煮 seaweed somethin
ピーナツみそ peanuts miso
ミモザサラダ mimosa(?) salad
果物 (banana and apple)
Academically, I need to:
1) Complete JA390, which consists of a daily culture journal, readings of a very interesting book, and a few presentations over trips we take to both Akihabara and Kamakura
2) Complete an independent study about business in Japan. This step, in June, will consist of creating and executing a handful of interviews with both foreigners and Japanese people who have experience dealing with companies, negotiations, and other various business factors.
That's it. Hmm. I feel like step two won't take 10 hours a week, so I feel like I must do even more. A possible third objective will be 能力試験にある漢字を一生懸命勉強してる, or, fervently studying kanjis that will show up on the JLPT. I'm keeping a notebook of ones that I can't read and I think I might break out the 教科書 (textbook) from last semester that we didn't finish.
All academic... loser! So onto social objectives.
Honestly, right now these are very limited. I want to do Karaoke, I want to play DDR in Japan. I'm not sure what else. Would it be wrong to have "eat whale (ONE TIME)" as one of my social goals? I feel like if I was fluent I would technically be able to go out and see the world of Japan, socialize with people my age who don't speak a lick of English, and all that, but it seems very ambitious. Knowing myself, I laugh at the thought of that social butterflyism, and even if I passed 一級 (the insane level of the JLPT), I bet I'd still be all shy.
So I suppose my biggest social objective is to find some more social objectives. Outside of these, over the month of June I'm going to write a ton of postcards to people back home and from the guild. I ought to start soon since I'll be writing so many.
From the top to here, I'm just bleeding American, huh?
それから。。
I'll show you my breakfast. Check out the pic here.
説明 - i forgot how a bunch of the kanji's go, some items are incomplete :(
お茶 tea
ご飯 rice
とろろ昆布のすまし汁 seaweed soup
目玉焼き fried egg (literally, fried eyeball.. weird!)
しゃけの塩焼 salty salmon
ほうれん草のゴマあえ spinach and sesame
昆布のつくだ煮 seaweed somethin
ピーナツみそ peanuts miso
ミモザサラダ mimosa(?) salad
果物 (banana and apple)
2 Comments:
Hey Bert. Thanks for posting the pic of breakfast. I made it my desktop background. What is the reddish thing at the bottom left? Is it fish? What is in the little pitcher at the top?
Here is what I know about socializing: You just have to do it. That is the only secret. You will certainly make mistakes, but it will also get easier.
I think social comfortability is a lot like a bicep, really. Good luck. Oui tu es capable.
xoxoxo,
Have fun,
Jen
This is for Jennifer:
I'm disappointed in you Jennifer - bottom left is salmon!!! How can you miss it!?!!!! Mmm.. with bleu cheese would be lovely.. *drool*
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