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I’d just writen a long blog entry, but somehow I’d clicked the back button and now it’s all sodding gone! I’m not going to write it all out again, I really can’t be arsed so here’s a summary of what I did write, and will continue normally at the bottom.

• You’re listening to Life is Like a Beach by Rie Fu – I’ve come to think of it as my theme song.
• On Wednesday realised was just wasting time by coming home and not doing anything nightly.
• Went out drinking.
• Went to darts bar in Umeda where I (and a friend) played darts and spoke in Japanese constantly.
• Came home at 4 am instead of studying for big religion exam.
• Bombed Japanese kanji quiz (that’s bad).
• With a loss of motivation, I didn’t study for the religion exam and slept instead.
• Finished writing exam 15 minutes into it.
• Came home and slept.

So today we had our weekly Japanese language test and I’m almost certain of failing that also. My lack of motivation to study hasn’t just limited itself to religion. Afterward I went and hung out in the Ajisai room where a friend and I made a little game out of flicking 1 yen (0.8p) coins into a box. Sounds boring but it actually became quite interesting, with me kicking buttock left, right and … hmm … three buttocks … ok, not centre.

On the way home a few of us stopped by an arcade where we spent (blew) some money on some games of DDR (Dance Dance Revolution), Time Crisis 3, some guitar game (not Guitar Hero T_T) and UFO Grabbers. I left the arcade with a new 3 inch tall Winnie The Pooh, dressed as James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (Monsters Inc), after spending … not too much money on it. Oh! And we 太鼓の達人 (taiko no tatsujin, Taiko Master), an awesomely cute drumming game.

The plan for the night is to go out and have some fun. We’ve got mid-terms next week and since I can’t go out and have fun on Sunday night, we’ll do it tonight instead. Finally a hello to Lauren, a fellow Osakan, who’s looking for the Osaka Monopoly.

私の日本人友達によると、私は日本語でこのブログを書いていません。それでは、始めましょう！
(watashi no nihonjin tomodachi ni yoruto, watashi wa nihongo de kono burogu o kaiteimasen. Sore dewa, hajimemashou!)
(According to my Japanese friends, I don’t write this blog in Japanese. Well then, let’s begin!)

今私はアジサイ・ルームにいます。たくさん人がいないので、皆は自分のものを勉強しています。私、このブログを書きながら、漢字を勉強しています。
(ima watashi wa ajisai ru-mu ni imasu. takusan hito ga nai no de, minna wa jibun no mono o benkyoushite imasu. watashi, kono burogu o kaki nagara, kanji o benkyoushite imasu.)
(Now I’m in the Ajisai Room. Because there aren’t a lot of people, everyone is studying their own things. Me, while I’m writing this blog, I’m studying kanji.)

今日リーズ大学の冬休み前作文の採点をもらいました。パッスしたけど、採点をまた知りません。
(kyou ri-zu daigaku no fuyu yasumi mae sakubun no saiten o moraimashita. passushita kedo, saiten o mata shirimasen.)
(Today I received my result for the essay we had before the Winter holiday. I passed, but I still don’t know the mark.)

日本語の授業の後で、先生は私にチューターをしてくれました。いつも面白くて、私の日本語が上手になるために、違うことを話しました。例えば、今日の昼怖い話を読んだり、私の新しい漢字を書いたり、週末にした事を話しました。
(nihongo no jugyou no ato de, sensei wa watashi ni chu-ta- o shite kuremashita. itsumo omoshirokute, watashi no nihongo ga jouzu ni naru tameni, chigau koto o hanashimasu. tatoeba, kyou no hiru kowai hanashi o yondari, watashi no atarashii kanji o kaitari, shuumatsu ni shita koto o hanashimashita.)
After Japanese class, my teacher gave me some tutoring. It’s always interesting, and in order to improve my Japanese, we talk about different things. For example, we did things like read scary stories, write my new kanji and talk about things I did at the weekend.)

日本語ですから、この日記はとても短くて、すみません。
(nihongo desu kara, kono nikki wa totemo mijikakute, sumimasen.)
(Because it’s in Japanese, this journal is really small, so sorry (my bad ^_^).)