Almost Finished Uni…
OK, right now I’m so close to finishing uni, I am so excited yet so stressed!! I look forward to writing on this site more often, I am often blogging in my head, I just rarely get the chance to actually write it down.
It’s not long now until I go to Japan! I’m so excited yet I have a lot to do before I go so I am probably thinking about it more than I should.
This is going to be my first time in Japan. I plan on going everywhere. I’m starting in Osaka, going up to Tokyo and then back down to Kyoto before leaving.
One thing I am hating right now is the exchange rate. Why did it have to happen NOW??? My money has effectively been halved thanks to it. I’m only going to be able to buy half the manga and visit half the love hotels I planned on going to.
Another thing I’ve been *naughty* in doing is studying Japanese my way. I really have a lot of things I need to be doing, yet I’ve been plugging away at my Intermediate Japanese textbook, and again have been using Anki – that program has changed a lot since I last used it, which I think was around July.
As for Dramas, I have been watching:
- Innocent Love
I am really enjoying this, I think this one is my favourite so far this season. Of course, the season is still young though. - Oh! My Girl!!
*Yawn.* I found nothing special with this one. While cute, I’m not sure I’ll watch the rest of this one. - Ryusei no Kizuna
I’m enjoying this one. I think the cast have great chemistry, and it was more “mature” (i.e. lots of sex talk!) than I thought it would be for a Johnny’s show. I like the non-linear-ish story line. This one is a bit of fun, so far, but with dark undertones. - Bloody Monday
I haven’t finished watching the first episode yet, as I got interrupted, but this is one show I am planning to watch. From what I’ve seen it’s really intriguing. - Room of King
*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz* 
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Hi! My name is Carlie Kimm, but you can call me Carlie. I currently live in Japan and blog about my life in this country, as well as my hobbies - which mainly consists of learning Japanese and looking at fine, if skinny, young men.
You can read more on my about page.
Twitter: GoddessCarlie
- New Article: I’m In America http://bit.ly/cb1djG
- oh yay, ikuta toma on my tv screen soon. Yay :)
Yeah hate that exchange rate lol…but so exciting that you’re going =) And goodluck finishing university. I know the final year is by far the toughest…my two oldest siblings when a little crazy during that time hehe
I can’t wait to watch Innocent Love and Ryusei no Kizuna as soon as someone starts subbing -.-’
goodluck!
Well, I’m in trouble because I’m already pretty crazy
Hello, I know that this is not the right place to ask it but you used the book An integrated approach to intermediate Japanese right? I bought it too but I can’t find the answers to the questions. Do I need better glasses lol?
Hi Arnaud, I also have Japanese for Everyone. They’re in the back of the book starting from page 342. Make sure you download the tapes as well.
Hey GoddessCarlie, best of luck on your adventure. I hope I can get a contract job in engineering there after I graduate, but that won’t be until I’m semi-fluent, and comfortable with Japanese. But tell me, how do you use Anki with JfE? Do you simply insert the exercises, like adding the question in hiragana one one side of the card, and the answer(s) on the other?
I checked in my book and I don’t have any correction. Maybe there are different versions… Too bad
Yea, rotten luck. I wanted to buy so many things while I was in Japan but could only buy half of them because of the current exchange rate… Ah well.. Something is better than nothing… I couldn’t go to Nara, but Osaka was amazing. So was Kyoto and Tokyo although I couldn’t visit any of the places that I wanted to in Tokyo.