Sunday, December 7, 2008
Nihongo Dekimasu
There are more episodes up for watching or download at http://nihongo-dekimasu.blogspot.com/search/label/Nihongo%20Dekimasu
週末は たいへんでした。My computer got a virus on Friday and OIT won't be done with it until tuesday so getting work done (especially on all my papers and a powerpoint due tuesday) has been hard.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
スカベンジャーハント!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
私の週末
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Colors of the Heart
and the English lyrics:
On that day, my heart crumbled in silence
Even though I scream at being broken, inerasable memories and
Darkness flow into my eyes
And I sink into tomorrow whose colors can’t even be seen anymore
I searched endlessly for the day of reconciliation
Only for the sake of losing it, I will live for the present
Even when it is useless and I embrace solitude alone
If you turn on the lights…
I will shine towards them
“Feelings continuously filled with wishes will someday change colors”, that’s what I’ve been taught
To be a person who continues to live with this in the heart
Because Colors are born within anything and everything inevitable
I will paint tomorrow once more with these hands
Before I knew it, I became used to the things I’ve lost
Even the things which were placed into my hands slipped through my fingers
Before my tears dry up, the words which I wanted to hear
Are now for the sake of saving someone
It’s all your fate. You gonna do that.
“If light becomes stronger, darkness will also become deeper”
Even if I realized that, I have nothing to fear
Because Colors are born at the end of just about any kind of heart
My eyes are already open because we were gazing at each other
The Breath of sadness, I was searching for that to stain it in colors
Without raising a sound
“Feelings continuously filled with wishes will someday change colors”, that’s what I’ve been taught
To be a person who continues to live by this in the heart
Because Colors are born within anything and everything inevitable
They will illuminate once more with the fingertips of light
Just drawing… Colors in light and darkness
And take it… Colors in light and darkness
Now, the gentle colors which could not be reached
With these hands, I will use them to paint and fix everything again
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Hana Kimi!
Hana Kimi is an awesome show (if based on a slightly crazy idea). It's about a Japanese-American girl who falls in love with a Japanese high jumper and enrolls in an all-boys school in Japan so she can be with him. So it's about keeping her cover and helping the boy begin high-jumping again after an accident. The school is known for its good looking boys, and the show is absolutely hilarious. Anyway, it's kind of different from the manga but is still very cute, I highly recommend it. Plus the theme song is done by Orange Range! :)
Sunday, October 26, 2008
すきなブログ
Saturday, October 25, 2008
わたしの あきやすみ!
すいようびに ニューヨークで ライオンキングを みました。 すきなディズニービデオは ライオンキングです! ライオンキングは とても きれい と りっぱですよ! そして、 Madame Toussaud's Wax Museumに いきました。 ブッシュを みました。:P Ellen's Stardust Dinerで ばんごはんを たべました。 きゅうじ(waiters) は うたう(sing)!
anyway, I had a lot of fun this break in New York City, I've wanted to see the Lion King for so long! other than that it's been a lot of relaxing and sleeping, it took a lot of effort to pull up this blog page and start doing homework. :P
Sunday, October 5, 2008
わたしの へや
Sunday, September 28, 2008
わたしの しゅうまつ
haha, my weekend was pretty boring, but I guess low-key weekends are good sometimes. And I had a good time petting dogs today on south quad, so it wasn't a complete waste. :P
Sunday, September 21, 2008
わたしの にち!
haha, I don't even want to know how much of this is wrong, but it took me a while to type so I'm going to leave it at that. I'm definitely anxious to learn more though, there was a lot I wanted to add that I just didn't know how to say (and was afraid of abusing, heh).
Monday, September 15, 2008
First Post?!
はじめまして。ロオラです。どうぞよろしく。わたしはノトルダムだいがのにねんせいのがくせいです。アメリカジンです。コネチカットのダンブリからきました。せんこうわはきしとにほんごです。
I’ve always been interested in Asian culture because of my half-Chinese heritage- probably the highlight of kindergarten through third grade was my mom’s Chinese New Year puppet shows using Sesame Street characters. My family has been in the US for long enough though that being Chinese was never an important part of my life…which is probably why I’m choosing to take Japanese over Chinese. -__-;
So embarrassingly enough it was Yu-Gi-Oh! that got me into Japanese culture (I have nothing to say about this other than that you have no idea how incredibly addicting that show is), though cartoons were and still are more or less the only shows that I watch on TV. From there I branched out into Hayao Miyazaki and his amazing amazing movies. I’m slightly ashamed to say that the first one I saw was Howl’s Moving Castle, but I was absolutely hooked on Miyazaki’s movies from that day on. Since then I’ve watched quite a few anime series, a couple of dramas, and have become addicted to Japanese pop and rock music—though really, I love listening to any kind of foreign music. Gradually this interest in pop culture led me to want to learn as much about Japanese culture and history as possible.
The class is going pretty smoothly for me so far, though my biggest challenge is in reading and comprehension, my brain kind of just shuts down when it sees long strings of hiragana. Anyway, I’m really excited to be (finally!) learning the language!
~ロオラ