Day 27

Ahh, Monday, how my brain loves you so and the rest of my body loathes you so.  I love it when I turn off an alarm and tell myself that I'll just sit in bed and count to some completely random and large number, instead fall asleep by the time I get to 9, and then wake up 15 minutes later, like it was planned.  I still got to class on time, as I had a bike, and was even there before most of the students.

Today in class was sort of odd, because we were learning a lot of stuff that I had previously learned, but I had forgotten some of the intricacies of it.  It's good that there are at least three or four of us in the class who have done this stuff many times before, so we can always help each other out when the sensei has a difficult time understanding why we have a problem.  Our main "inter-student" discussion was on transitive verbs and intransitive, how the Japanese actually use a different verb for each one.  Much easier to explain in English and then use in Japanese.

Lunch: I'll give you one guess, and you're almost definitely right, if you've been faithfully reading this.  If not, I'll probably tell you tomorrow that I either did or did not get it again.  Afternoon classes were again fine/easy as we were doing potential forms.  I managed to confuse the sensei by using a piece of vocab/grammar that we had not been taught yet, but she eventually got it and was pleasantly surprised that I used that form.  W00t.

The afternoon was much like any other: homework, relaxing, studying, dinner, and this time, playing some of The Legend of Zelda.  The controls are sort of unorthodox, but the graphics are absolutely fantastic.  All that from the purchase of a $40 set of memory cards, USB drives, memory chips, and other stuff (= no more purchasing of DS games as long as this thing holds out).

Dinner for once was different: grilled cheese and sausages, though not at the same time.  What are you, nuts, to think I'd do such a thing?  It was more filling than pasta and beef, took roughly the same amount of time, less dishes, and was less of a hassle to get done; equally tasty to.  At least I didn't burn the place down with some toast.  That'd be a no-no.

On that note, there are no pictures from today, and may not be until Wednesday or even Friday.  Look for more updates tomorrow, now that I'm back on track again.