Used Japanese Book Sale

I got up too fast in my room as I came to the computer, so now my head hurts... I hate it when that happens... so anyway, today was a good day because mom took me to the used Japanese book sale at Our Lady of Lourdes. I actually have a lot of friends who have gone there for middle school... but that's not the point. There were TONS of stuff there. The whole back of the room was just manga, namely old shonen jump... with Bleach... and naruto... and One Piece... and only 50 cents.... yeah, I spent a lot of time going through there. Eh, so what if there were tons of 1st graders speaking Japanese like I wish I could speak but hey... I got my manga. Also got quite a few childrens books for more practical learning purposes... Yeah, I'm probably not going to be able to read that manga for a little while. I can already read a lot, but not completely... maybe in about a month, there's my goal. If I can't read pretty well by then, I am a lazy slacker who needs to be kicked in the face...

The majority of the day, besides that, has been playing Final Fantasy X-2 (I started a new file). I'm currently at level 25 at chapter 2, which is the same level I was at in my first game on chapter 4 or something (there are 5 chapters in the game, for those who don't know...). Some peole may laugh, but I am proud of my (small) accomplishment. Time to bask in glory for a while................... haha!.................... Okay, yeah, kind of stupid...

Japanese Class

Or... nihongo no kurasu was... um.... hard. Lemme just say that the stuff people are saying in there is WAY BEYOND MY CURRENT LEVEL but the worksheets we get are about right. Then again, the best way to learn is to dive off the deep end and absorb it by the simple questions, "something wa eigo de nan desu ka?" That one question can get you a long way. Not to mention that the type of grammar being taught/used is much different. Over the past year, I have been learning simple simple simple types of grammar. It's like... stuff that 1st graders laugh at you if that's all you know how to say. The stuff I am having to speak now is... middle school level. It just reminds me of the time when the Japanese students came to Enloe last school year. It was about halfway through, and they came over, and naturally we got a chance to talk to them, in Japanese as they were just middle school level. Well... back then, we new less than half the curriculum, which at that time would have put us a long way away from the speaking level of middle school... but yet, we still were talking. They were probably thinking, "wow... they can't speak Japanese at all." Because two weeks ago, at my Japanese class, where we were learning to speak at the middle school level, there were two Japanese people there... laughing at us... oh, the humiliation.... so in short, we were dumb, and I'm less dumb now, but still dumb.

Yeah, that was rambling. But anyway, I am muddling through Japanese, I'm going to start kung fu next week, my summer work out program, um... something else, oh yeah, video games, and Japanese. There was something I wanted to say... but I'm too busy talking to Richard right now... what a crazy guy...

Time... and an Unintentional Explanation of a Lot of Things

This is really a pointless post. There was something I really wanted to talk about, but I forgot it, and the funny thing is I always remember at night, before I go to sleep, that's when I start thinking about stuff... But anyway.

Time is a funny thing. On Wednesday of last week (the day before final exams started) I kept saying to myself, "this time next week, it will be summer, just one more week." The days went by, and now it's Monday, and tomorrow is the last day of my (second) freshman year. Yeah, I really should explain that.... okay, last year, when I was an 8th grader, I was looking for a school. Then, my mom heard about my older cousin's school, a small Roman Catholic High School. It only had like, 25 people there, and needed more for tuition. Mom, looking out for her godchild (my cousin) as she was, she enrolled me there, but made a deal with the principle. I'd go there, but not as a 9th grader, so next year (this year) I would be a 9th grader, so I'd be at the school for 4 years, but be taking more advanced classes. That way, I wouldn't have to compete for schools and jobs with people who were a year older than me, or at least that's how mom put it. So anyway, last year I took Algebra I, Biology, Latin I, all that stuff. So this year, the only class I really had to take again was Biology, which sucked... but that's a different story.

So that's the reason for the 2nd freshman year, except Enloe is MUCH bigger than last year, but whatever. Last year I got a whole lot of self confidence, so this year I was just being myself, met some great people, and had a good time.

So anyway, yeah, time is wierd. I go back to when I was a kid, then I go foward and realize how much I have to go. I begin to see the different paths in life, the paths that I can walk. The seemingly never ending decisions that must be made, each one important, building on the last, and making me, me.... okay, that was cheesy and stupid.... but that's who I am, so screw you! I'm keeping it.... yeah, that was stupid and pointless too... maybe I should just.... stop....