Classes

Classes have been interesting here. I have 6 hours of Japanese a week, but all my other classes meet once a week for about an hour and a half. So this week has been pretty light on work. I still need to get my books, I am thinking about ordering them from the Amazon website here in Japan, it would just be cheaper and easier as the bookstore has very limited copies of some titles. To give you an idea of what I have been learning this week please watch this video.

And yes this video is largely humorous and filled with errors. We were told to watch it repeatedly and to figure out what was true and what was not, as well as looking for true things presented in an over exaggerated way. Our teacher also recommended showing it to a Japanese friend or host family member and get their reaction to it. It was funny to watch Okasan watch it and see things and say "no". As for my classes in Martial Arts and Traditional Japanese Ceremony, I got into both, but am in the later sessions, so those classes will not begin until about the end of November. This means that I have Mondays off, two classes Tuesday through Thursday and then three classes on Friday. After these other classes begin I will have Martial Arts on Monday night, and three classes the rest of the week.