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Travelling Japan during peak vacation periods can be fairly complicated, especially on a budget.
I first heard about the 青春１８きっぷ the last time I was in Japan, as an exchange student in Kyoto; the ticket can be purchased for 11500yen for use on JR line local/rapid trains. The ticket itself entitles the bearer 5 days of unlimited travel. While it is a very economical way to travel far distances, the experience of traveling by slow trains can be quite exhausting.
Seeing as how I’m three weeks into my summer vacation and I don’t have much to show for it, I thought I’d better get on it. I’ve got plans in the works to do a little bit of travelling to Kyoto and possibly Hiroshima and I’ve continued to teach private English lessons, but since my main goal this summer has been to study Japanese, I think I can finally say that I’ve started.
The focus for this new blog is to keep track of my studying for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (N2). It’s only been a few days but my brains been ticking non-stop. I spent most of my day working on it. I have a few books that I am currently working from, and I introduce them on the site, but I also will try and update with things like “word of the day” entries and some “free study” topics, one of which will be Japanese solfege (which I encountered briefly during my thesis research). I will provide translations and romaji intermittently, although the majority will be in Japanese. If you’re interested, please check it out~!
BTW new haircut!
Q: How do you make use of a non-”career driven” degree, such as one in an interdisciplinary major like Asian Studies?
A1: More school
A2: Be creative
A3: Give up
For link, check the sidebar; I have just caught up with 2010 updates. Entries from here on will be current.
