(Varyingly) big decisions: day 2.

1.　この曲も好き！
2. 　昨日、日本語が分からなくて落ち込んでいて、授業が始まる前に日本語能力試験の二級の

単語リストを全て覚えると決めた。実はもうそのリストの ５分の４を覚えたけど、今日またAJATTを読んで、リストを止めることにした。昨日リストを覚えると決めたばっかなのにな。でも、あのカツモ トさんが言ってることは多分本当だ思う。そこで、今から、前と同じで、日本語が進歩するようにするけど、さらに、もっと楽しくようにする！

Right now, what I want more than anything is to speak better Japanese. In my frenzy for better Japanese, I've been studying 5-10 hours per day for most of this break.
But, right now, I am pretty convinced that taking J6 (the highest level AIKOM Japanese course, which I was scheduled to take) won't be particularly useful toward that aim (of speaking good Japanese). And besides being fairly useless in itself, J5 was by far the biggest time drain last semester, which means it'll take a lot of time away from more meaningful work on Japanese on my own. This is not due to any particular fault with the course or instructors, which have been very satisfactory for what they are.
I've been hesitating for a long time, not really committed to taking it or not, but now... If I can fill my schedule without it (should be simple), I've decided to do so. Not looking forward to defending my decision to the teachers when they ask me (especially the nice ones, who I'll totally feel guilty whenever I see, I'm sure), but, for my Japanese I think it's the only decision.



(Also, the H&C manga in Japanese, which I've been reading a lot more/faster, is so good.)