Yesterday was sunny again, so the roads have been mostly cleared from snow although some of the grassy areas are still… icy. The snow wasn’t thick and it didn’t stay long either, but surprisingly some creative people managed to make some snowmen (or snow creatures, as some of them are not “man”) in the school ground. Right in the morning of the first snowy day (two days ago), a snowman has appeared in front of the main building and yesterday someone has put some colors in the thing. Yesterday, we also discovered a snow pikachu somewhere near cafeteria one. There is also a little snow creatures in the yard of our dorm, but I’m too lazy to figure out how I can get out there to take a photo of it.
Pi~ ka~ chu!!!!!!!!!!!
This guy is popular among children who were playing with their moms
These past two days I have been leaving early from the lab to work on my Japanese as we will have an exam tomorrow. Yesterday I went to the lab after our Topic on Japan class in which we discussed the strength, weakness, opportunities, and threats of Japan, and determined that I won’t be staying there for more than an hour. I ended up staying for almost two hours because I decided to do some of the practice exam they gave us in Japanese class and my curiosity get the better of me and I refused to leave before I finished all questions. If only I can be that determined every day… After finally getting the idea of the differences between “ni” and “de” (thanks to Andy-senpai), I went home and stopped by “まいばすけと” on the way to my dorm to buy some stocks (read: instant ramen and cereals). At the night, I had dinner at the ramen-ya near our dorm which was actually a pretty bad decision because the serving size is always ridiculously big and I got sleepy when we had our study session later that night.
Speaking about Japanese exam, at the last Japanese class Yoshizawa-sensei gave us some sample question as practice exam. This past days we’ve been working on remembering words, which was why when we got the practice exam I was a bit confused. If the exam will be similar to the practice exam, then we don’t really have to know the meaning of the words because the questions basically only require us to conjugate verbs and put it into the right form according to the sentence patterns. They even gave us the verb, so we only need to figure out how to change it into the correct form. That was why last night we changed our learning strategy into memorizing all the sentence pattern instead of the words. I somehow have the feeling that I will depend entirely depend on my feeling in the exam rather than on my memory, which was more a bad news than a good news because my Japanese-language feeling hasn’t been trained enough to be able to do a Japanese final exam.
