To Review A Plan

It's now half-way through my first semester of Japanese, and as good a time as any to turn my head and look back on what I've accomplished so far.

I think the goals I originally set were realistic and attainable. I've made steady progress in my conversational skills with my teachers and classmates, and I feel that as I continue to practice and learn new vocabulary and grammar my speaking is becoming more fluid. I think I'm even succeeding in having fun while doing it...

My means of attaining these goals, however, may have been a bit unrealistic. I haven't been going to Japanese table, and I stopped watching Sword Art Online after it got weird during the second season. There's plenty of other anime out there that I could watch, but Princeton's omnipresent sense of never having time for anything has caused me to drag my feet. I have found that reviewing material on my own is a great way to keep old stuff fresh, and that speaking with the teachers before class individually has really helped my conversational skills. Thus in the future I'd like to spend more time in conversation with them, either before or after class or at office hours.

In my original plan I wrote that to make a plan is to give it force. I was a bit too optimistic when I wrote that. But all the same I am proud of my progress and am looking forward to what I'll learn in the rest of the semester.

ビデオ！映画！ :D

これは僕のブログビデオ！！！！！

我很少拍照，也很少拍電影，所以這對我來說是一個新的經歷！

Filming this was more fun than I thought! I am computer illiterate so this was kind of scary too!