the will to learn will conquer all obsticles

a few weeks ago i started taking japanese private lessons (did i even write this sentence correctly O_O?) ... and boy those times back in college were really coming back to me.

kyoko sensei, my fellow classmates, the 'japanese for busy people' text book (i dont even remember if we have ever use the second volume of the book, since i could only find the first volume one) ... and (the best part of the whole learning process) the awesome-yet-tacky-and-innocent videos they showed in classes for better and quicker learning. in the past it used to be BIJII san (the mascot character of the book), along with Smith san, Tanaka san and etc.

while now in this institution (jakarta communication center), since we used a different textbook (minna no nihongo), the characters in the book (and the videos) have changed to .... Santos san (the Brazillian man), Maria san (Santos san no okusan), Yamada san, Yoshida san, Suzuki san, Tanaka san (he is still there but apparently played by different person -__-;;), and *drum roll* .... MILLER san ... the new yorker who apparently had been strangely cold throughout the video, a total dead pan compared to his friendly Japanese counterparts. most of the time u will see his speaking partners smilling while speaking to him, as for Miller san .... dead cold as ice as his robotic voice pronounced every word. it was just hillarious .... me and my tutor had fun laughing at some of the great antics those characters pulled off, whether they realized it or not.

so after all those lessons, starting today i am on a beginner level 3 student. and after this level, there r still a lot of levels i have to go through in order to be fluent. well i just have to patient then ....

and yesterday, taking the lesson while coming down with a bad cold, sore throat and a minor headache .... was not too bad since throughout yesterday we were just reviewing all the lesssons we have learned on video tapes. it was a video day thank god ^__^


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