I realised that I haven’t written anything about the real reason I’m here so here’s a little something on my actual studies. The midterm exam is on Nov 20th so that’s gonna be a nice birthday gift. Amazingly our class has managed to stay on schedule and we have gone through everything in the first book; all 15 chapters and about 300 characters. I recognise about 80% of them but can only write around 50% so that leaves quite a bit of room for improvement. Now that we’ve moved on to the second book the complexity of the language has gone up a notch. Also, there’s way more new characters to be learned in each chapter; 30 instead of 15 like in the beginning.

I have learned to speak way better than I expected and I can have simple conversations with the locals. That I’m very proud of.

Here’s a snapshot of the book as well as one of my notebook:

Today there’s a 50 word essay about “How did I spend my weekend” for homework so I’ll start working on that now.