Sorry about the in focus/out of focus problem. My camera and I don’t really agree on where to focus.
Anyhow, this video is basically just for myself. I want to look back at this 11 months from now and see how much better I’ve gotten.
I also went to Hanabi today. I will show you what is in the next post, maybe tomorrow. I have some video too! Here is a preview:
I have now been here one month! And yesterday was the first day of our two and a half week long summer holiday! The school “planned” a trip to Disneyland for the first day of the holiday. Or in other words, they gave us a student discount. Of course we had to go along to celebrate the holiday and the fact that we’ve been here a month. The time has gone really, really fast! There are more pictures from Disneyland on my flickr, for some reason there aren’t a lot of pictures though, I really don’t know why.
On our way into "It's a tiny world"
The rain made it colder which was nice!
But the summer holiday isn’t all about fun and games (although there will be games)! I have a couple of goals that I have set for myself during the holiday.
On the topic of games I have started playing Starcraft 2 a little bit. It’s actually very fun and I had a long discussion with myself wether or not it was morally justifiable to play games when I should be studying Japanese, but I came to the conclusion that I shouldn’t always be studying Japanese so to sort of just live a normal life and feel that I am just like anyone else here I bought the game!
It’s a pretty cool real-time strategy game, and when I get a little better I’m going to start to play multiplayer online, which is what is fun about it, playing against other real humans.
Starcraft 2
That’s the short update. I’m living life, everything is going good. I’m having fun and I’m learning lots. If you have any suggestions for what to do during summer vacation I’m very open for them!
I’m planning on making a video soon with me speaking Japanese, mostly just to be able to look back at where I was now when I’m going home in 11 months. Keep an eye out for that. Until then; γΎγγγ
Yesterday Marcus, a classmate, hade made some onigiris (rice-balls with stuff in it) at home and it looked pretty good so I tried to make some myself!
I fried up some chicken with some pepper and some extra salt to counter the rice (according to Marcus instructions), then I put some cellophane wrap in a cup and put the rice in there, made a sort of cup out of the rice and then put the chicken in the middle.
I pulled up the plastic wrap and pressed everything into a ball and then put it in the fridge.
Today during one of the breaks in school I ate it, and it tasted really good, so I’m going to make more! After about 3 hours in school I usually get really hungry so this is a really cheap way (it cost maybe like 30 yen to make one of these balls and you actually get pretty full from one or two) to not be hungry for the last lesson!
This is the school that I go to and in this video are some excerpts from one 50 minute lesson. This is basically how most lessons go, we practice dialogue, repeat after the teacher and read from the textbook.
We got ourselves a rice-cooker today. It’s sort of a must-have thing in Japan. I already love it and am probably going to eat even more rice from now on. It’s awesome. Today we made this:
