nanimo kowaku wa nai wa

[arisha]

~ I just had a surprisingly pleasant five days of work! I say "surprisingly" because I was in box office the entire five days, and so it could easily have gone worse, but I don't think I had a single frustrating guest the entire time! Faith in humanity: RESTORED!! I also sold a bunch of tickets to This Is It, including once while "The Love You Save" was playing over the lobby radio (I still don't quite understand how that song has made it into our Top 40 station, but it's cool that it has!).

~ I studied Japanese for an hour today, awesomesauce!! :D I learned a couple new grammar points, so that was awesome. I basically cannot explain how happy studying grammar makes me. Anyway, for much of my JLPT studying this year I've been doing the exercises in this book, but now that I'm very nearly done it I decided to shake things up a bit and start doing the exercises in this book, which just arrived for me this week. :3 WHY YES that book is all about learning the Level 2 grammar points in a mere forty-five days! We are getting close to test date and I am getting nervous. D: I also got another book that's all for learning the Level 2 vocabularly in fifty days, hahaha. Too bad I no longer have fifty days!!

(Man I do love my growing collection of foreign language textbooks. xD I definitely also own a textbook or two for languages I'm not even studying ...)

In conclusion, I fully expect my November 2009 to be all about NaNoWriMo and the JLPT, and not much else. I am looking forward to a month of obsessing over studying, it reminds me of when I was studying around the clock for the AP Spanish exam and pretty well lost my ability to understand English. xD WORTH IT.

~ In other news, Facebook just told me I should reconnect with a co-worker I saw every day this week and last saw four hours ago. Oh Facebook, you know me so well.

Comments

[aurora-lime.livejournal.com]

Yay for the revision of Japanese. I pulled out my Genki books the other night while sitting in bed, and started writing out some vocab and kanji. it was awsm.

I just wish I could take some textbooks with me when I go about my day. The Genki ones are just too big to justify taking to work.

[arisha.livejournal.com]

I know, the problem I have with my study materials is they are too precious to me; I never want to take them out of the house. :X (Actually, that's a lie -- during the last semester of school I had a Spanish workbook that I carried with me pretty much every day.) What I used to do when I worked days at the theatre (because days are OMG SO BORING) is copy out some kanji onto a sheet of paper, and then when I had some time at work I would rewrite the kanji over and over again. Exciting?! haha.