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 [...]
Tag: tests
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 [...]
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 [...]
Second half
I have no other interesting anecdotes about my last week in the dorm. I packed everything I brought and bought into two suitcases, a backpack and my laptop case, cleaned my dorm room, gave my key back to Mr. Sasaki and headed back down the road toward Nishi-Waseda station. The combined weight of my backpack [...]