Well I guess the big thing is that School finally started. This long boring summer of not doing anything finally came to an end. I am taking Modern east asian history, Advanced practice in Japanese, Japanese civilization and Japanese religion. Besides the advance practice class all of these are 200 level classes so the work load isn't too bad and I have them all on Tuesday Thursday which is good but that means I am at school from 8 am till 7:15 pm. Its a little rough. But I really like my classes. The EAS class is pretty generic and the readings are dull but its mostly review for me. The Japanese language class is exactly what I need because its a tiny focus on spoken practice but a huge focus on translations. The teacher is actually a British guy but he spent years living as a monk in Japan so he knows his stuff. For my other two classes I have the same teacher and he is really cool and just one of those teachers that I click with. I am also taking a church institute class so I get free parking, awesome, and the institute building is a really cool place to just hang out.
Work is kind of sucking because I put 24 hours on my availability and left it pretty open. Normally I would have had no problem getting 20 hours but because they have this stupid scheduling program now I'm getting like 15 hours a week. I need more money I've got a car now. I am really looking forward to graduating and quiting that joke of a company.
So there are three things that I need to get done in my spare time this fall. The first is work on my senior capstone project, which is to translate 25-30 pages of Japanese into English. Since this is my big project I want to translate a short story rather then a chapter out of a book but I am really stumped as to where to start looking for stuff like that. Its really hard to find stuff online in Japanese just because they just don't have the stuff you would expect them to. The second thing I need to do is to put together some resumes and post stuff on like monster.com to start preparing for getting a new job. Because I want to quit before December so I need to get a job lined up. The third thing I need to do is turn in the application stuff for JET. Yeah I've decided I am going to apply for it. It seems like a pretty solid choice. I just need to get letter of recommendations, transcripts for schools, medical papers, etc... Its a lot of work.
Other then that nothing much is going on. Still no girlfriend, no plans to move out, just kind of going with the flow. Because of the cut hours I am starting to realize how little money I really have but I really want to upgrade this desktop computer, its really sucking right now. What I would like to do is install a small solid state hard drive, upgrade the ram a little bit, and throw Windows 7 on it.
Well I have to get back to home work
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