I'm busy

It's the truth... I have lots of classes, people to meet, and things to see... ahhh check facebook! I post lots of pictures there >_o; Things are going well though... I went to Kamakura, and Enoshima last week. Tomorrow I have a day off, I want to visit a temple near my house.

サンルートホテル 高田馬場 Sun Route Hotel Tour.

The hotel room I stayed in for a few days. This is old news though.

So I'll have more things up very soon, but it's so busy... you know?

I arrived.

In San Francisco

みんなさん、こんにちは！

今、SFOの飛行機にいます！今朝、ロサンゼルスから出発しました。お母さんをから歩いてところはちょと悲しみ時だけど、今私は本当に嬉しくなりました！よかったね？それから無料wifiを見つけました。写真を撮りました、見て下さい。私の気持ちはわくわくしくて興奮しています。昨夜、全然寝ませんでした。一晩中、荷物をつめました。「つめる」の漢字を覚えっていませんけど、後で絶対調べましょう！えっと、実は何も言ってしたくないです。

興奮：）

akashi

San Fran's View

A stupid picture lol...

Placement Tests

I took my placement test about a week ago and did better than I expected to. It will be interesting to see what happens with that. I hope that I don't end up getting placed in something too simple or too difficult.

I went to Zurich and London too... I was going to make a video, but I'm too tired from just doing errands before I leave. I feel burned out from living here. I'm not burned out really, just of living in Los Angeles... I'm getting tired earlier and earlier, I just don't like being awake here anymore. I have one more day before leaving... it's surreal. What do I even say about this? It can't be tuesday that I leave, it sounds impossible. I wanted to write one more blog entry before leaving... I guess my next one will be in Japan :)

how weird

夏の残り日々 The Remaining Days of Summer

     Well here I am yet again writing another blog during another 終わらない季節 (Never ending season). I had two things to write about today, both of great importance. The first one involves an update about Bice. Three weeks ago Bice, a great composer that I'm a fan of, passed away quite unfortunately due to a heart attack. I wrote a blog post about her influence on my life shortly after I heard the news. Quite miraculously, the relatively obscure artist managed to compose as song called ご飯はおかず or (The side dishes are meals).

     This song was recently featured in the famous anime K-On!! as an insert song. Having watched the first season and pretty impressed with it, I was waiting to view the second season, but now that I found out about Bice's insert song, I am more excited than ever. The style of the song really fits the theme of the show, and reflects Bice's ever-carefree style of simplicity that she uses in her music.

     I'll post the insert song below, as well as a link to one of her last blog updates concerning the completion of this song.

Bice's blog post. I'll translate it: http://bice.jp/?p=352

That famous anime:

My apologies for not having written in a while. I've been feeling down because of the weather, but I take it you're all doing well? Recently I finished composing a song for a rather famous anime. The release is unknown as of now, but it's a really fun song. By the way, my iPad is still missing, and I'm feeling down because of that. It's scary--. But can it do Skype??? Maybe… the other day I stopped at Fukuoka city in a cafe off on the side for the first time in a while. It's possible I left my iPad there accidentally. Considering that time, I was in a bit of hurry and that could be the reason. Aw, I guess I really am such a careless person after all <3

Log 2: Japanese Dictionaries

Hey guys, I'm not going to try trans-scribing all 10 minutes of these videos, but I will certainly post them. A couple months ago I purchased my electronic dictionary, and I've found it overwhelmingly useful and a great investment. I thought I'd compare the various media that can assist you in learning Japanese. So without further adeau, I present a crash course on Japanese dictionaries part 1 and 2!

PS: let me point out that although the total of these videos was under the 11 minute mark, the size was over 1 gb and I didn't feel like compressing the videos to a low quality. So I cut them into 5 minute blocks and left them like that.