JLPT Level 3, Totoro House, Magnet Train!
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Okazaki,
Chubu,
Japan
Thursday, January 22, 2009
3. Now I'd taken the Level 4 one when I first came to Japan, so I knew
what to expect. Or rather I relatively thought I knew. Turns out there
were 3 parts. Two listening parts, one kanji practice and sentence
usage part and one particles and reading part. Talk about EPIC
FAIL...*sigh* no amount of studying could have saved me. There were so
many questions I didn't even understand >_< not to mention a lot
of the questions were tricky with two plausible answers. Anyways after
lunch we finished watching Grave of the Fireflies, what a sad, sad
movie. We started watching My Neighbor the Yamadas and that was very
entertaining. Still didn't really lighten up my mood. Dinner was
shochu(that cream soup with vegetables and meat) (i love it, I wish i
knew how to make it...), shrimp in a spicy tomato type sauce, salad,
seaweed, mushrooms and of course rice.
Tuesday! Did I mention how much I love Tuesdays? Anyways had Aoyama's
class first period, and went through review with the students. They had
lots of fun with the word "literature" not sure why, but hey the
important thing is they had fun. Got a phone call in class, lol all the
students wanted to know who called. Again the whole boyfriend thing
came up. Again I don't really have an answer. Anyways after that class
Yamaguchi sensei took us to Satsuki and Mei's house from the movie
Totoro. It was so cool! The landscape was so pretty and the best part
is that we could open all the cupboards and drawers inside the house
hehehe. The detail was amazing, although I have to watch the movie
again and see just exactly how detailed it was. After that I met up
with John at Yaba-Cho. It was so cool! I got to ride the Linimo train
(the magnet train!!!) it was such a smooth ride, and it only took about
15 minutes to get to Fujigaoka. From there I took the Higashiyama
subway to Sakae and then the Meijo line to Yaba-cho. We went to
Mcdonald's or rather John was already there, I was a bit
late...Anyways, I had a teriyaki burger again (one of things I will
miss when I go home). Then we took a ride on the bicycle and I
attempted karaoke again...and failed. For some reason I have been hit
by a wave of shyness. Got home at around 6:15 and my host mom had Pocky
for snack for me. I was thrilled, because this is the Pocky that had
been sitting in the fridge for ages but I was afraid to touch hahaha.
Anyways for dinner I had egg plant with this grilled chicken sauce,
salad, miso soup, rice and of course fish! Oh funny thing about the
fish, it totally looked like there was a baby fish within the fish, but
yes I still ate it.
Wednesday was fairly uneventful, went through the level three test, no
wonder I didn't understand the test, half the concepts I wasn't taught.
Picked up my t-shirt from tye-dying and finished three out of my four
essays.Dinner was carrots wrapped in beef, oden, spinach and egg soup
and of course salad.
