Writer's Block - Cleared!

I'm happy to say - actually more like relieved - that I was able to come up with something for my essay.  All I needed was a good night's sleep.  Though, the good night's sleep wasn't intentional, I literally fell asleep while "relaxing" trying to come up with something, so I woke up before the roosters this morning and there you go.

I went to last night's Conversation Club armed with 4 questions.  I decided to just go with the flow, and of course, my questions were gone the first five minutes.  However, the conversation was going really well, before we knew it, a whole hour has gone by.  Looking forward to the next Conversation Club.

Writer's Block?

I am absolutely stuck!  I had a break for two weeks being the Victoria Day long weekend.  It is now Friday - two weeks after - back to school tomorrow and I still cannot come up with anything to write on my essay.  The topic is not so easy, something along the lines of "。。。。なければなりません".  If I were to write in English, my pen would be flying by now.....how do I say it in Japanese?  I don't have the energy to rack my brain - battery drained.

As well, tonight, I am going to the Conversation Club, which means that I have to come up with questions to make the "conversation going smoothly", however, it never really goes according to the script.  Maybe I should just write down my standard questions and use it everytime, though, I think that would really defeat the purpose of the whole thing as we are expected to have more "sophisticated" sentences as we progress.  Honestly, I am far from there.

I think I need a coffee right about now.

２０１０年０５月２３日

Lately, I find myself watching a lot of Korean shows.  I think I hear some words in Korean that are similar to Japanese and they sort of mean the same thing - maybe the origin of the word is the same?  Anyway, in most of these shows they have this sort of rice dish wherein they mix rice and all sorts of things in one big bowl and eat.  It looked really good, however, I have noticed that in most every show, the character would usually be depressed or have some sort of problem when they are eating this....is this the Korean version of a comfort food?  In any case, after watching all that, I suddenly had a craving for bibimbap - yum!

2010年05月05日

It's been awhile....what have I been up to.....well, I've been to one Conversation Club and two meet-ups since last post.  I'm trying to practice as much as I can.  Writing is hard enough but it gives me time to check and double check my sentences plus look up words in the dictionary, while speaking is so much harder cause you have to have the words right off your head.  Anyway, がんばります！

I have also started Kanji class last Friday - it goes for an hour and a half.  Though it's a good class, I think I still have to do some studying on my own to learn as much Kanji as I can.  I do not aim to master Kanji - though that would really be nice (^_^) but I'd like to learn enough to be able to enjoy the magazines while waiting at my hairdressers - yes, it's in Japanese.

I downloaded an App for iPhone called iKanji.  I really like this App, it teaches you the Kanji meanings, compounds and stroke order and you get to test yourself.  It is also classified by JLPT Level and by Grade.  Since I have it on my iPhone, it's very handy.  I play with it while killing time.  I used to play Chuzzles while waiting in line - now iKanji is my game.