JLC-DeLeon-Kris

       I thought his book was about animals, but then it listed other objects such as trucks and cars. I translated the title and it said "White? Black?" so I think the book is about listening to different things that are black and white. I'm getting better at reading. Every time I need to read I pull up a hiragana or katakana chart so that I can quickly reference it when I need to. It's getting a little bit easier, I'm definitely not as stressed out as I used to be about reading Japanese. It still does to some degree, but I reached that point in learning that I'm starting to enjoy it.  

    Watashi wa ongaku o kiku no ga sukidesu. Bureikukoa ga sukidesu. Watashi wa eiga o miru no ga sukidesu. Horra eiga to anime eiga ga daisukides u. Watashi wa geemu o suru no ga sukidesu. Watashi wa yukkuri-shimasu no ga daisukidesu

       I grew up with all the holidays that you would expect from living in the United States. Christmas, Halloween, Easter, etc. Growing up with Spanish culture, however, I grew up celebrating more religious holidays, or at least there was a greater emphasis placed on celebrating them. This was normal to me of course, my parent's culture was heavily entwined with religion, and it was just natural to be heavily religious. Specifically Catholic holidays like Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday, and an entire week called holy week. These take place in Spring, closer to Easter than Christmas, so the early four months feel like back-to-back work to me someone who doesn't consider themselves religious.     Japanese culture seems to be fairly similar to ours. Holidays focused on rest and relaxing with families. I can only imagine the pain that would come with finding out you'd have to work on Christmas, I'm sure someone does, but I find celebrating the Equinox and a ...

  Another book I read seemed to do with just genuine facts about Japan. The average height of the people born there is 171 cm for men and 158 cm for women. It did say to have a world that sounded like Korea which I was confused about before realizing it was Korea and that was different. I think the sentence was something along the lines of "This is the average height of the people living in Japan". There was also mention of something called Hayama, which I learned is a town in Japan. I think my reading skills have gotten better, I'm picking up on a few more symbols now which makes me proud.

ご ぜん 　7 じに 　 を きます。   がっこう　 は 　ごぜん　8じに　から　ごご　６じに　まで　です。 ご ご 　7じに　 しょく じ 　 を 　します。 ご ご 　８じに　 しゅく だい　 を 　します。 ご ご 　10じに　げ　ゲーム　 を 　 します。 ご ご     11じに 　 おふろ　に　はいります。 ご ぜん 　12じに　ごろ　ねます。

      Compared to what my daily life is like, Japanese life seems somewhat more lively. First off, having work or school at nine sounds like a dream compared to what is going on right now. Extra hours of sleep sounds amazing. Second off, walking to and from school sounds amazing as well. I noticed that Japanese culture doesn't focus too heavily on cars. It's a lot of walking and public transport. It's a less car-centric society and it feels like you can go outside much more often cause some stuff is much closer and not like five highways away.     Nightlife from what I glimpsed seems pretty similar to what I assume goes on here in the West. That being relaxing at a bar with drinks and friends. I don't go out enough to confirm this, however. It is interesting to see people still doing active activities after nine, however. Working out at night seems strange but I suppose people do things like job at night, so exercising doesn't seem too far away. What t...

            I read a book about this boy who keeps forgetting something every day when he's at school, and I have some observations about myself. Firstly, reading in Japanese is hard. I didn't really understand the katakana written down and only really managed to piece everything together. The pictures definitely helped with context clues in order for me to understand what was going on, like how the word sensei was repeated at the beginning of each sentence when the kid had to tell the teacher he had forgotten something. Repeated words like that I could somewhat gather from context, but beyond that I was primarily lost. If anything I enjoyed viewing it as a picture book.      I notice this with reading in Spanish too. I struggle with reading the words correctly but when It's spoken out loud to me I can translate it in my head near perfectly. I think this is due to me reading slowly in general. Even in English, I noticed I'm rather sl...