I got the results from one of my tests this week and it was 13/13. The other tests I did, I feel fairly confident about either full or close to full marks. I did really well with our kanji reading today (we were reading a newspaper article about Microsoft’s recent attempts to buy Yahoo) and though my list of unlearned words has grown from 200 to over 270 in the last two or three days, I feel like I’m making progress again. Maybe it really was the lack of sleep that got me last week, thank you Moonlight Nagara. Or maybe it’s my new high-peanut-butter-content-diet. Either way, I did well, and in the conversation class today I was flying through our work (first finished all the time, even repeating our conversations two or three times). I also did well in our song class, and ended up unconsciously singing out loud a pretty fast “rap” part from this song (Sunrise by Bennie K) during the song class, which surprised some people (hopefully in a good way).
Another song we did was Sakuranbo (“Cherry”) by Ai Otsuka, which isn’t the deepest song ever written but it sure is bright and happy and cute.
Here’s another song we studied today — Hana no Na (“Flower’s Name”) by Bump of Chicken, which I’m not crazy about.
Next week I present my chosen song, Love Addict by Mika Nakashima. Turn up the bass for this one.
Well done! Are you halfway through your stay in Japan yet? NM
Sakuranbo! 懐かしい！I thought it was so good I paid 315円 to download it to my phone.