VON: 1st week of the sem... ADD OIL!!!

finally, my 2 months ++ holiday ended.....new sem started on 10th April... isn't it weird to start uni on a friday??? but well, my friday's class start only one week later than that... haha... so a few more days for my holiday... but that doesn't make any big difference though.... life is stil the same as before....

my very first class of the sem is the intensive japanese language class held at Surugadai campus (which takes me around 40 mins to reach there) on tuesday.... since it's the first class and there're some new comers, we're asked to do self intro....next, in the evening.... korean class... well, i was hesitating to take that class onot... as i'm supposed to polish my jap in japan n not to learn a new language here...but after some consideration, i'd finally decided to take the language... ADD OIL!!!

wed, took 2 jap classes: japanese expression (writing) and japanese expression (speaking)... both classes are taught by a famous lecturer in japan... hmm... she's strict to exchange students.. dun give face wan... and these classes are taken together with japanese students... actually abit pressure la... dun think my level is that good to understand the class yet... but well, i'll take it as a challange... ADD OIL!!!

thursday....a tiring day.... had intensive jap class again with a different lecturer, therefore, need to do self intro again, to the same classmates but different lecturer..... 9.10am - 12.00nn with a 15 mins break at the interval, need to rush to Izumi campus for the following classes (takes at least 35 mins on train to commute between the 2 campuses)... no lunch for the day.... the next class start at 1pm.....the lecture for "language n culture" was so crowded... there wasn't enuf seats.... some of the ppl attended the class by standing at whereever they can....(this reminds me of Perijaya Tuition Centre... during the intensive seminar...... we'd experienced sitting at the corridoor for the history(if i'm not mistaken) class...) next, a seminar class about translation... it was written on the 'pro-forma' that only 12 students will be accepted for the seminar... but in the end, there're 18 students who registered for it... and we have a nice lecturer who accepted all of us... TQ Ms Otsuka!!! again, we're asked to do self intro!!! hmm.. really sick of it....but stil, i cant rmb the other seminar-mate's name.. none of them... anyway, during the seminar, we're asked to translate 2 eng sentences into jap... and that shows how bad my jap is.... my answer was so much different.. or i can say it's totally different from the japanese students' answer.... sigh... because, with my current level, i can oni do direct translation, but not translating it with the jap language culture into it....well, ADD OIL!!!

fri, had intensive jap class again, with another different lecturer... cant rmb if we're asked to do self intro onot....i was just too tired to recall it... weird.... i was just so tired for the whole day though i'm pretty sure that i had enuf sleep....so after class, went for lunch with my classmates who came frm korea n france at the cafeteria at 17th floor of Liberty Tower, Meiji Uni, then go back home, sleep.... in the evening, went back to campus again for a welcome party for "Campus Mate".... it's nice to get to know more ppl there... but it's super expensive.... 1000yen (around RM37) but ate oni some fried rice n a cup of juice..... but well, can noe more ppl, can prac jap more, worth la...better than going to izakaya (jap style restaurant) where need to pay for around 3000yen for 2 hours where u can drink wateva u want on the menu... n it's mostly alcoholic drink.....met with some 1st year jap students who wanna learn eng or chinese... alot of them were so surprise that i can speak chinese, eng, malay, cantonese, hakka n jap....haha... long time din speak so much jap in a single day (actually it was oni 2 hours)... my jap's not fluent yet, but improved quite alot compared to 7 months ago... so, ADD OIL!!!

after the first week, i can foresee that the workload for the classes are quite heavy... no pain, no gain.. i'll have to put alot of effort to polish up my jap in the remaining 3 months ++ here... ADD OIL!! ADD OIL!! ADD OIL!!!


p/s: add oil means 加油 in chinese or 頑張る in japanese (for those who don't understand)