Can't believe it's almost the middle of November!

We are busy busy busy...mostly studying right now for the Japanese Proficiency Test on December 2nd. Nick's parents have arrived and will be here for the next 2 weeks. We'll be heading to Kyoto next week with them, which I'm really looking forward to.

Yesterday I celebrated my 1-year anniversary at the school I teach at. As I just said 'I' celebrated and only I. I can't believe I've stuck it out for an entire year, longest job I've ever had. Thankfully these days are now being filled up with studying Japanese every single period I don't teach, which this past week has been amounting to around 5 hours! Plus the train ride to and from work, although I usually end up falling asleep.

Nick and I are both taking this Japanese Proficiency test which has 4 levels. 1 being the hardest and 4 being the easiest. I have been studying on and off for LEVEL 4 since March last year and was getting pretty confident that I would have no problem passing. Then I found out....

Well Nick singed us up for the tests and he is taking Level 3 (he will have no problem passing, he should be doing 2 but hasn't had time to study), but accidentally on my registration form he put me down for taking level 3 as well! Just found out last week that not only did he do this, but absolutely no changes can be made. I was extremely disappointed as I was really looking forward to kicking butt on the Level 4 and saying sayonara to Japanese (just don't think I'll be studying it much more after Japan...Spanish will be much more useful in the future). But now, while I was completely sure of passing, the magic 8 balls points to undoubtedly so :(

I have decided to take it, but that means I have been studying like crazy and will give it my best. I have 15 days to learn about 200 new kanji ( in addition to remembering the 100 I already know) and learning heaps more vocab...like 800 more words! Yikes. Never mind I am trying to get Nick and my friend Tara is help catch me up to speed on the grammar and verb usage. I've decided this isn't much fun, but gonna put in the time and hope for the best.

I guess in the end, I 'll have to look at it positively either way as I have learned a lot of Japanese while here and heck, I'll be taking the SAME test as Nick who has studied Japanese way longer than I ever have!

Ganbarimasho!