Monday, November 16, 2009

"Ohhhhh... Oh man... Oh man... traumatic..."

For tomorrow there's a take-home grammar quiz due, a reading (an article from Asahi Shinbun, a major Japanese newspaper) to do, a worksheet about the reading due, and a vocab/kanji reading quiz in Japanese class. Bawww, that class is so oppressive. Ariyoshi sensei just reminds us of the things we wrote on our applications to the program last year - "I want to study Japanese intensively!"

But, my Japanese class angst aside (, today included:
- Ariyoshi sensei actually being nice and leading a good class, to the frustration of Zhemin.
- Me picking up "No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai as the first book I have to read in its entirety for Japanese Novels
- Another day in Boccha sensei's class where I took not even a single word of notes (which brings my total for the semester to... Zero).
- A meeting with Miwa! Hisashiburi... Feels like it's been too long. He helped me look through the book of Toudai clubs. And also gave a very strong, alarming reaction when he saw that I was checking out "No Longer Human." At first he wouldn't say why (knowing that I'm about to read it), and then said only "...traumatic..." ...So my interest is piqued.

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