日本語 Progress, Driving licence and a new (better) attitude.

Well, my summer holiday has started (woo!) and I'm of to 東京 at the end of this month (again woo!) so I decided to get serious about my 日本語 learning. I started using TextFugu, an online Japanese text book created by a guy called Koichi. So far it seems to be pretty good and has a big focus on staying motivated (BRING IT ON! KAPOW!). I've been consistently studying everyday (OMG) and more importantly, I've been wanting to.

At crunch time last semester (only a few weeks ago) I was all like "OMG THIS IS SOO HARD AND MY LIFE IS OVER COZ I MIGHT NOT GET A FIRST IN MT DEGREE. WHY AM I SUCH A FAILURE..?" and I was really hating myself. >_< This, however, was lame. After reading something on TextFugu about attitudes towards learning, I realised I had a really bad relationship with learning and we needed to kiss and make up. I've decided to stop worrying about grades and scores and focus on learning for learnings sake. So far this attitude is working out really well, touch wood I keep it. I also passed my driving test which has probably also helped cheer me up (although I don't have a car...).

Side note: Touch Wood is and awesome name for this touch screen keitai by Docomo.

...also I started using Google Chrome, I'm not entirely convinced its any faster than Firefox but I'll stick with it for now. I'll leave you with a video of an awesome jet-pack.