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:

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.

I was going to talk about the cellphone, the camera and school. But I didn’t really have anything useful to say about the camera so I skipped it. I find it a lot harder to make vlogs right now than writing regular blog-posts. When I write I can get in exactly how much information I want and the reader can choose to read as much of it as he wants, it’s easy to school to see where interesting parts are and such. In the video though I have to be fast and concise or it becomes super-boring very, very fast. The end result is that the video contains a lot less information than a blog-post would have. It’s a good exercise to learn to be concise, but at what cost does that happen, and is it worth that cost? Anyhow, here is a video. Showing off the school-material is the most interesting and worth-while part.

I just counted all the words I’ve learned so far and have come to the conclusion that we are learning new words at a rate of 23 words per day. We’ve been studying 9 days and gone through 5 chapters in the book and learned ~211 words. Just wanted to let you know that.

Tomorrow I’ll hopefully be buying a camera so you’ll get some pictures and nice videos and stuff in the future.

Also: I like apples, but they’re fucking expensive. Check out Eemmas post on the topic.