Oh! I should have remembered that form but I couldn't! Damn. XD We just learned the narimasu thingy like two weeks ago! >3<

I'm so glad I could read those sentences with the kanji! Haha. I don't know the 'tan' but I know the "jyoubi' part so I could put two and two together there. Also don't know sai, but again, two-and-two. Lol I plan to study this summer by grabbing the kanji from my textbook and making lists to study. >3<'

Also: ashy's old. XD JK, but older than I thought! I dunno why though.

OTL

I know and yet I still get carded when I buy lotto tickets. LOTTO TICKETS for crying out loud!

I just have a baby face.

When you're older and if you're still getting carded, you'll be happy. LoL.

how do you say 'I thought you were older'? I know that 'to think' is 'to omoimasu" so yeah. XD

もっと年寄りと思いました。

Motto toshiyori to omoimashita.

There's other (ruder) ways of saying it, but this is how I normally say it.

XD Ruder... that reminds me of when my friend and I wanted to say 'it's none of your business' or something like that in Japanese and asked our teacher and she just stared at us and shook her head. She said she didn't know how to say it. So we liked to joke that it's so rude/blunt that the Japanese have no way of saying it. LoL

あんたには関係ねぇんだよ！

Anta ni wa kankei nee n da yo!

That's how you say it's none of your business.
Pretty rudely (almost punkish), I may add.

LoL I could tell it was 'blunt' by the 'da yo' part. but XD My teacher didn't know that. I thought it was funny.

Argh! I can't wait till next summer. I want to go so bad and /have/ to use it.

You're thinking of going to Japan next year?

Thinking? I fully intend on doing it so long as my dad doesn't bail out again. Granted I understand this year, though x.x' but I should be allowed to go next summer and spend at least a month there. I'd like to do a month and a half, though. but it's up to the girl I'm staying with. >3<'

A month and a half should be good. A couple of weeks is definitely not long enough.
I really recommend going to Harajuku and Kyoto if you get the chance.

I'll try. I know that the woman lives in/just outside of Tokyo. She said she's in tokyo but kinda out in the country. Which makes me uber curious about what kinda place she's living in. XD and gonna be awkward now cause she gets married in march and I'll be living with the two of them and I've never met the man before. But I'm still excited.

>_> This is the woman who I hosted last year BTW. XD

It shouldn't be too bad. You'll be out and about most of the time anyway.

And if you're in Tokyo, it doesn't matter too much if you're in the metropolitan area or the suburbs, the trains are fast and can take you everywhere.

XD Well I wasn't at all worried about what part of Tokyo, I was more curious is all. <3 I wanted to know what kind of house she was in then. she's teaching English, too! I told her to send me pictures. >3< But she rarely gets online ;-;

And yeah, I know. <3 I'm excited, and although I'm not confident about my Japanese speaking it, and I doubt I'll be any better by the end of next year, I'm still eager to be able to, or rather, HAVE to use it.

Plus it's always amusing whenever I talk to a Japanese person and say /anything/ in Japanese. They get all excited and happy. It's cute.

We They do! But don't worry. Quite a few people in Japan actual speak English (albeit broken English), so I think you will be fine.

XD If I don't know how to say something that's all well and good, but chances are I'll be flipping through my little notebook with my sentences. >_> I feel the intense desire to re-write everything into a different notebook bu I really love the one I have right now. XD

But broken English... Makes me think of an anime I was watching and someone was trying to talk in English and I needed the subtitles to understand them. Oh I think it was in Junjou...

lol I totally went back and reread all that was type.
very interesting to say the least! =D

@az:
I have to agree with Ash.
And you would be surprised.
A lot of the broken english isn't that bad.
And if anything they might say the word in japanese and judging by what you said about narimasu, you might be surprised by knowing it.
But I have to deal with broken english on a daily and if you are there for a month to a month and a half, you will really improve on listening - both broken english and japanese. ^^;

@ash:
Have you ever been to fukuoka?

FUKUOKA XD That's where the woman I hosted lived, and that's where her family still is. <3 I did a report on it last year. XD

And haha, nah I know most broken English isn't too bad, I was just reminded of that one instance. It wasn't so broken but the accent was so heavy and trying to fake-american that it was comical. >3<'

Never been to Fukuoka. The farthest south I've been is Hiroshima and Miyajima during a trip.

I've usually stuck to Tokyo (where family is) or Kyoto for sight-seeing.

@lauv:
pretty good but extremely tired.
today has been long.
how about yourself?

@az:
lol i've been there.
I loved it.
I am probably going to college there next year for japanese studies. <3
Maybe kyushu university (my best hope) or a language school since I wish to be an interpreter.

xDDD i kinna wanna see it now.
i love when people attempt an american accent and its so apparently fake.
btw - i am working on your art still.
slowly but surely.

@ash:
oh really?
what is hiroshima like?!
I know many people who have been and i want to gooooooooooo
and go to the hotsprings.
especially the one in tottori (i know its not hiroshima but its kinda... nearby)

I'm glad to know that <3 I'm excited but don't rush. ^_^ As long as I see you around I'm alright cause I know you haven't just disappeared. <3

And XD I'll find the clip, gimme a bit.

I wanna study in Japan like... maybe my final year of College or my second to last. Depends, but I really want to do that. I also want to do the JET program, but I hear it's difficult to get into. Regardless it's always worth trying.

Didn't really experience too much at Hiroshima except the Peace Memorial (which is HUGE!) and stuffing our faces to okonomiyaki because we were only there for a few hours before going to Miyajima.

Funny thing is that I've never actually gone to a hot spring before.
Will definitely go the next trip though (since I now have cheap tickets due to my job).

I wanna major in international business... so if worst comes to worst (er, kinda worst I guess) then I can at the very least /use/ my Japanese and hopefully go to Japan. or maybe live there. I dunno. >3<'

FOUND IT
hehe

@lauv:
/hugs/
ugh i hate laundry!
though i REALLY need to do it.
are you regular about it?

@az:
<333 dont worry.
i wouldnt do that.
i would feel far too terrible.
i had to cancel once on a person but i gave them both linearts for free and let them know.
i felt so bad.
still do.
so i dont think i could ever do it again. ^^;

alright.
i will wait.

and JET is extremely difficult.
I know 2 people in it.
I refuse to go into it because it is so ridiculously hard.
I know 4.0 students that have a really hard time with it.
and they are good students.
But I wanted to visit in july-sept but i dont have the money so I will be doing schooling instead.
and i will be going with a comp sci degree... though im still really unsure of it.
i dont want to do it but it screams job security right now. ><
but i will still be majoring in Japanese Language so I can go back again for my senior/3rd year.

@ash:
AH!
my friend's gf often goes to miyajima!
i am soooooo jealous of her!
i want to go there sooooooo bad!
and kinkakuji!
but on a different note - i have a good recipe for okonomiyaki but i am afraid to try it since the last time i tried a japanese dish - mizore nabe - i failed.
but then again i didn't pay attention to the shoyu/mirin ratio since i had helpers who did it.
but i am excellent with sukiyaki! |D

really?!
when i was in fukuoka, my host family owned a restaurant and since my teacher brought me, she took me and my host sister plus her two sisters out to beppu (via bus which i saw some very disturbing things. gross japanese guys >A< ) and we stayed in an old family home!
it was soooooooo nice!

I am a bit traumatized by Miyajima. I had crackers in my back pocket when I left the Shinkansen and had a bad run-in with a bunch of deer who wanted to munch on my bum.

It did not end pretty.

@az:
roflmao
that was bad.
that was bad!! xDDDDDD
but hilarious!

@ash:
/dies/
awww poor ash!!!
I'm sorry.
That really must have been embarrassing!
I wanted to feed the deer but maybe not anymore ^^;

@lauv:
i know the feeling.
my brother doesnt do any!
its so frustrating!

They were after the crackers. I didn't realize I was going to be mobbed by a bunch of deer, antlers and all.

ah, I haven't looked very hard into it just yet since it's still so far away.At the very least I at least want to do a semester or a whole year if possible of schooling in Japan, but we'll see. I need to look harder but I'll start looking once I transfer to uni, right now I'm just at our community cause it's so much cheaper >3<'

If you know of any good programs or whatever to do for the study abroad could you let me know so I can bookmark them? <3

I want to major in Japanese language but there's so little I could do with it besides teach or translate. I can minor in Japanese if I do the International Business at least, so that's something. And I can do so much with business x.x' It's so open-ended. Plus, if I'm really lucky, it may give me a job where I'll get the opportunity to learn more languages that I want to. (just thought of this actually)

@ash:
lol our teacher told us to never put stuff in our pockets so we don't entice the deer.
^^; but its ok if you feed it from the hand yes?
and of course they were after the crackers ;D
xD jk

XD Ash did you see the video I posted?

And I know Shink! XD I will never forget it. And the voices sound almost computerized cause they try not to have the accent. I think that an Asian accent is adorable and I love it, even if it's hard to understand, so I'd rather a heavy accent than them trying not to have one. XD

I went with friends, so none of us knew any better. OTL

And good night, guys. I'm turning in for the day.

@ Az - I'll watch it first thing tomorrow! I just can't keep my eyes open anymore.

@ Lauv - It was an experience I would much rather forget. *shudders in fear*

Awe night Ashy <3 ~snug~ Sleep well.

night ash!
and awww!
well now you will never do it again~

@az:
thats actually where i am now.
its still very.. open.
im just worried and i know i want to move to fukuoka because it felt like home.
like how it is when i am with my mom and we are watching a movie together without my brother or any other nuisances.
it was nice.

JLCC program with kyushu university.
but here's a little tip: check with the university you want to go to and see if they have a sister school in japan.
we have one at university of washington.
their sister school is kyushu university - one of the better ones in japan.
on top of that its for a year... or so the jlcc website says.
but im not sure about the UW program though.
but at the UW they have summer qtrs abroad as well specifically for japanese language students.

and i love asian accents!
they are hot.
I will have to admit i do want to visit fukuoka again partly for the boys.
but more for kamitsuru-kun.
he makes me go like >///U///<
so toshiaki but he is at my CC though he is from kobe.
lol