no me busques más

I have been thinking about taking the JLPT this December. I took 3kyuu in second year (wow, so long ago now) and passed with like 80% (aha, I was proud of it at the time but now I'm like, that's it??), so I would be taking 2kyuu this time. Haha, yes, those are the two levels that supposedly have a HUGE GAP between them. :X At this point I have no idea whether or not I'd even have a chance of passing 2kyuu, but at least it'll give me something to work towards. After an extraordinarily unproductive June, due in part I think to having too many goals and no organization, I decided to just pick one goal and try to stick with it for a while. So I am trying to get back into studying Spanish and Japanese. :3 You could argue that this is two goals but whatever. So far it's going pretty well. I feel like I have been away from this stuff for AGES. Definitely a part of why I was so frustrated with university by the end was that, once I hit second year French and third year Spanish and especially Japanese, the focus was suddenly a lot less on grammar and a lot more on reading, speaking, vocab, kanji in the case of Japanese ... I mean obviously that's all way important stuff too, but grammar is my love. D: Once we stopped focusing on new verb conjugations and new lists of rules and all that other fun stuff, I no longer felt like I was learning anything and so got way frustrated. :/ Just now I was studying stuff from my 3kyuu book and MAN! "Ageru / Kureru / Morau," "All About the -te Form" including everyone's favourites "-te iru" and "-te aru" ... MAN I MISSED THIS STUFF SO BAD. xDDDDD!!

I've realized though that the language shelf of my bookcase is totally biased. :// I used to have a bunch of beginning Spanish textbooks, but then I lent them to a friend who lent them to her sister who lost them. SO now I only have my Spanish AP book and my third year Spanish textbook and neither of those are particularly good for reviewing all the early stuff I think I need to review. :X Well I'm finding so far that I remember more than I expected to, but then consider that in my high school Spanish classes we never learned to conjugate verbs for "vosotros." I know not every Spanish-speaking country uses "vosotros," but still! Imagine learning a language and completely ignoring one of its pronouns!! xD;;; So I feel I should at least take a look into that. :p

Aaaaand I was going to write more in this entry but now I'm totally distracted by YouTube. AS USUAL. xD;;;

P.S. Happy Canada Day! Too bad I have to work. :(((