.028 - i never signed up for an intensive Japanese class...

Golden Week is over and a not so golden quarter (at least as far academics goes) awaits me. Monday we started to have "real" class since the week before Golden Week was really was just intro lectures. The newest addition to our academic schedule however is Japanese which is Monday thru Thursday for TWO HOURS and THREE WHOLE HOURS on Tuesday. It's pretty crazy when you look at it on paper, but considering we're in Japan and desperately need to learn to communicate, it kinda goes by quickly.

This Japanese class, however, is much different from the one most of us took at Stanford. Not only because of class length, but also due to the intensiveness of the class. According to the syllabus, we have a quiz every week/day. And this week doesn't disappoint. Yesterday I had a 30 word vocab quiz(w/ one night to study) and tomorrow I have a Kanji quiz with another one following the day after. This work seems pretty daunting seeing as how I also have two history classes to "read" for too. I guess now is better than ever to start speaking Japanese ALL THE TIME.
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Random interesting notes:
- Japanese Jehovah's Witness are really nice and speak really good English. But they don't knock on your doors. They stopped me twice when I was riding my bike home.
- Octopus doesn't taste that bad...
- Japanese drivers have never heard of leaving space between a pedestrian/biker and their speeding cars. An accident's bound to happen soon...