Game no Vocab

Oh, hey, I can link you to my vocab blog now: ゲームの単語.

It's not the greatest thing in the world, but I'm trying to tag effectively so you can make "lesson plans" or something, and you can search the blog in English or Japanese for the word you need. That makes it at least half-way decent.

Studying on Vacation

I've found I study really well when I shouldn't really be studying. For instance, I was just in the woods for a week and even though I should've been out kayaking on the lake or swimming or at least walking down the gravel road running past our cabin, I woke up quite a few mornings and just wrote kanji for a while.

I did the same thing when I first arrived in Paris, only with Russian. We were in our hotel rooms prior to arranging actual accommodations for the 5 month study abroad and everyone was like, "Why are you studying?"

I guess I must have some elitist streak that makes me feel good about myself if no one else in their right mind would be studying ;p that and I just really like to study...

The other thing, is that in the woods I had no Internet or videogames to distract me. It comes down to what hobbies you like vs. what you find important vs. what is available and the overlaps thereof.

A month exactly

You can tell I've been busy, but I have an announcement! Finally.

Since I don't know of any good web-based vocab organizers, I'm going to start a vocab blog, yes with tags. About videogames.

That is all. I don't have a ton of time at the moment. But uh, look forward to that...maybe.

Perfume

It's like having a sweet tooth:

わあ～東京へ行くことになった！

海外出張です。GAMEPROという雑誌とウェブサイトからこのチャンスをもらった。出発は６月９と思う。父がきゅうかをとれることを手伝ってくれるといったから、楽しいバケーションになれると思う。

そのほか、オレヤちゃんからすてきなプレゼントをもらった。誕生日は７月にあるのに、彼女がシアトルヘ引っ越すから、私とパーティーなんかをすることができないだろう。WHITE　RABBITのフラッシュカードです。すご～い。これから、オレヤちゃんのを借りることはいらない。

おひさしぶり

そんなに忙しい？ブログを捨てたくないけど、仕事が多い。勉強のため時間がなちゃった。どうして？多分ＥＡへ行くときに教科書とかＤＳの教育ソフトとかもってくれば、いい。

そこの新しいバイトはすてきで、オフィスで働いているのが好きだ。

Arrrgh I don't even have time to write why I don't have time to write because I have to go catch BART before it shuts down. Yipe yipe yipe. Suffice it to say I haven't given up. I think, as I mentioned, that bringing study materials to EA would be a good thing, but then again you look all pretentious if you're studying kanji at lunch, and it might be easier to make new friends if I actually tried.

*shrug*

More mail

So I think at some point I intend to put some actual effort into a post about my new study tools, obviously, but this will serve well enough to announce that the DS software has also arrived. I've been gathering initial impressions, but probably won't have time to make the actual post until the weekend. Or never. We'll see haha

I'm pretty happy so far, though, and I had some time this evening to study.

Oleya was over last night and let me oogle her (White Rabbit) flash cards. Let me tell you, they are some awesome. The best part is the six usages listed. You can learn some super useful vocab just by making sure you recognize your kanji. It just feels really good to have a finite amount of information there. Studying out of a kanji dictionary (even a super user friendly one like mine) is stressful and overwhelming since some kanji have meanings that go on for over a page!! Here you can get a really good pertinent chunk of meaning, things you will want to use--like 万引き（まんびき shoplifting） or 九州　（きゅうしゅう　the island of Japan）Therefore, huzzah.