hell week & shopping;

Yay this isn't a placeholder! These past two weeks have been absolutely god awful, I kid you not. Everyone has been bombarded with the research project, and the teachers have not given us any breaks either. Even our stupid culture class has a crap ton of homework that NO ONE cares about. As of right now, it is easy to say that the majority of the group here is annoyed with classes. THEY ARE KILLING US.

This week we I had two presentations that had to be fully memorized, and two final exams, and the final copy of our presentation is due tomorrow (July 16th) by 6 pm.

Presentation #1: Memorize a short presentation from the Japanese Science and Technology class. We had to be video taped so the teachers could critique us afterward. Eww.

This was my presentation on the furoshiki~

では、今からふろしきについての発表を始めます。

今日は、ふろしきとはなにかとふろしきの新しい使い方、そうしてふろしきのとくちょうについて話します。

まず、ふろしきとはなにかについてです。

ふろしきはせいほうけいのぬのです。人はせんとうに行く時にふろしきを持って行きます。せんとうでふろしきをしいてすわっていました。

次に、ふろしきの新しい使い方について話します。

さいきんかんきょうもんだいがありますので日本人は新しいふろしき方を始めています。たとえば、今ふろしきはバッグやギフトとのラッピングそれに家のインテリアにできます。

さいごに、ふろしきのとくちょうについて説明します。

ふろしきはさいしょうできますので、レジぶくろをへらしています。今日本でそのうごきが始まっています。そのうごきは3アールです。３アールはリデュスとリュースとリサイクルです。

このように、ふろしきは、色々な使い方があって地球にやさしので、もっとたくさんの人がふろしきを使うと思います。

いじょうで発表を終わります。ごせちょう、ありがとうございました。

質問がありますか。

The presentation went better than I had anticipated! I had to meet up with my professor today to watch/discuss the video. He said that it was a very clean presentation, and that over all I did a great job! I just need to speak louder and need to stop fidgeting so much. I kinda looked like a fool, I'm not gonna lie xD

Tomorrow I have my Communication final exam but it is only worth 10% so I am not concentrating on it too hard for right now. I honestly just need time to relax and catch up on some much needed sleep. I know all of the grammar for the exam tomorrow, so if anything, the kanji is going to be killer. I can read them, but writing them is an entirely different story. Ugh.

Today we got out of class super early because of our final exam, so I headed to a secondhand shop and Book Off with Sam and Jackie. We had gone yesterday also, but since we went late at night, a lot of the shops were closing and we wanted to look around more~ The secondhand shop is amazing here! They have SUPER affordable Japanese clothing, along with a bunch of other crazy items like ginormous Dragonball Kai figurines. I have been searching for Japanese clothing for awhile, but it's so expensive here! It really is ridiculous. I do not understand where these families get all their money. CRAZINESS. Anyway, I bought:

1. Marc Jacobs shirt for 19 dollars!
2. Floral skirt
3. Bermuda shorts
4. Floral top

...minus the Marc Jacobs shirt, everything was under 5 dollars! I was so excited. I think we want to head back some time next week, since it re-stocks consistently~!

As far as the other entries go, I'll get on that soon...I hope.