There’s a significantly different feeling between a typical vacation to a foreign country and a long-term study abroad. During my 18 day romp through Europe, there was a ton of stress to get things done and see what you needed to see. Enjoying yourself seemed to take a backseat to checking off a list of [...]
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JLPT
So, I randomly had 125 hits to this blog yesterday with no referrer (which means people are typing henrymatt.com into their address bar). I have no idea what caused this. The internet is weird. Today was the culmination of a lot of hard work. True, a lot of times I say that I work hard [...]
BBQ at Showa Memorial Park
In order to reach the location of KCP’s school excursion for this semester, I had to ride the hour train to Shinjuku, then a full hour further west, past Mitaka (home of the Ghibli Musuem) and to Nishi-Tachikawa station. I arrived 15 minutes late, didn’t think to ask one of the teachers where the classes [...]
It’s almost as if it’s a harder level or something
With regard to tests, I’m not able to sum up my current state very easily. First off, I’m dominating the kanji tests. There’s a kanji test every week, and large tests after every five sections. I’m averaging 94% on them, and I think my latest large kanji test may be a 100%. One good thing [...]
The grind
So, the first week of classes in level 4 are over. I guess I should describe it a little. Perhaps I misspoke earlier when I said the split between boys and girls was about 30/70. I counted again and it was about even. I think my miscalculation came because a large group of guys came [...]