The scoop today

So I went to class today completely un-prepared. The only studying I did for my kanji quiz was the hour train ride beforehand. It was plenty of time to cram 20 kanji in my brain for the test. I am going to try to actually "learn" them later on tonight. There was also a grammar quiz which I forgot about. Luckily the stuff that was on it was taught in Genki II way back when. It went all right hopefully.

Before Genji class I managed to read 2 chapters and answer all the questions. In class I pretty much slept the entire time. 3 hours of Genji is just too much in one day. We also watched this interesting documentary about bringing the ancient pictures of the text back to life. They did this really intense analysis of the old inks and materials that were used, and made replicas of the original colors. It was cool, but I could only understand half of what was going on.

Finally during my song class, Louvie and I played psp. Nuff said.

After class I went to Mister Donut with Vaso to check out the new Simpsons flavored donuts. The Simpsons Movie is debuting in Japan sometime this month and MisDo is running a special. They have two flavors, banana and mixed-berry. I really liked the banana, but mixed-berry had it's own flair. Honestly the selection at MisDo is really bad. The so called "limited-time" donuts are by far the best they have flavor wise. Why they don't have those all the time I don't know.

Michiyo Sensei just sent us the placements for the spring practicum. From Feburary 5th to March 4th I will be spending my time in Niigata teaching 2nd graders English! I will be completely isolated from the rest of the study abroad students (they are going to other places). It is going to be really weird to have absolutely no contact with other English speaking people for an entire month. Hopefully it will be a really good experience for me. I get to learn Japanese at a grade school level! The only thing I am not looking forward to the coldness though... There will be snow everywhere! Maybe I can go skiing...