So I've finished my third week of the class. It's a lot of fun. The girls have toned it down and I no longer have the urge to strangle them. Someone gave the younger girl some Ritalin since she calmed down after the first day. I thought it would just be reading in romaji and speaking, but we're also learning hiragana. It's sooooo hard to write!

Class this week I was asking about temoto funyoi since when I was looking up otemoto an example of how to use temoto was temoto funyoi. It turns out you wouldn't really use that term. Also one of the students teaches foreign students and when I was saying I needed to find someone who can translate my adoption papers she said one of her students is coming back in January and for a rough translation her student would be able to help. That would be great since I'm really interested in finding out my medical history. After what's happened recently with my husband and I, my desire to find out has become much more important. Just not important enough to pay the outrageously stupid prices I've come across. I realize I'm a skeleton in their closet and I don't mind staying in there, I just want to know if cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol, etc. runs in my biological family. Doctor's can say it's not always genetic all they want, but not always isn't a 100% term.

There's a pocket Asian in the class who I get along very well with. We were chatting up a storm after class, mainly after different animes and mangas and after we said goodnight my husband said, "For a moment I thought you were going to take her home. At least you have good taste." tee hee hee If I could take her home I would! She's just really fun to be around and I haven't had much time to read Kuri, Nuttz or Reyne's blogs and I haven't talked to the twins, Kitty or Sayumi very much so it's nice to be able to talk to about manga and anime with someone besides my husband.

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So I'm finally taking a beginners Japanese conversation class. It's actually very small since it's an adult ed. class at night. It will last for 8 weeks and there are only 8 students, including my husband and myself. The teacher informed us that what we're learning is what kindergartners and 1st graders learn in Japan. Considering the class is only 2-1/2 hours long I'm surprised at how much I've learned. Because we learned about onegai shimasu and how to properly use the term, like when ordering something, I waited until after class to ask about what my Japanese "friend" told me. He said if ordering something like wanting a glass of water the best term would be "O mizu wo itadake masuka?" It's the most polite way, which is usually what he likes to teach me. Another polite way is "O mizu arimasuka?" When I asked her if "O mizu wo itadake masuka?" was still appropriate her eyes grew big and she said that it's a very formal way and not something if you were in a regular restaurant. <_<;; I'm still have problems with my r sounds. I make the r too strong and when I try not to I tend to roll the r and put a Spanish spin on it. XD

Right now it's a love/hate relationship. There are two girls in the class, one is in junior high and one in high school. They are annoying, so very annoying. The teacher passed around a book that had a lot of different stories in it that she uses when teacher younger students. The first story was with Mr. Toad. If you don't know Mr. Toad is a Disney character and if you've been to Disneyland then you can go on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. When I said something about it the younger girl made a comment about how she didn't know who that was. I told her that it's a character from like the 80's or something. She then rolled her eyes and said, "Well I'm only 13." Yeah I felt like ringing her neck. Is ignorance ever a valid excuse, especially when it's based on your age?

So my husband and I have been watching Shugo Chara. The summary didn't say anything about it being a magical girl series. I like Su the best, but the blue egg has the best magical girl outfit and the fact someone else is trying for world domination. It's a knock off of the Care Bear Stare though, the magical girl changes and the plot shouldn't take more then 25 episodes, but does pretty much sucks. And why hasn't Amu figured out yet that if she just does the Care Bear Stare she will win? Why try anything else? It kind of reminds me of DBZ too since her friends are a worthless group. I think tonight we'll try a different anime since Amu is driving me a bit crazy. My husband has realized what I felt like when I watched Naruto though and stupid Sakura. Complete waste of space. Bring in the obviously in the closet gay guy and kill the dumb girl off! (You know the guy that wears a half shirt, skin tight clothes and makes fun of Naruto's penis size. XD)

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