So, I FINALLY enrolled in school again. I was in school – 2008 – but before then it’d been a couple of years since I’d been in class.  I decided that I didn’t want to do what I currently do for a living..for the rest of my life.  Best way out is to go back to school.

I found out that I need to take foreign language to transfer to a 4-year.  I took Spanish years ago, and am not really interested in retaking it at this point. I am interested in the Japanese culture and I love the way the language sounds – to me (at least in anime) it always sounds happy.

My dad was actually…well probably IS actually a bit offended that I chose Japanese over Chinese. (For those of you that don’t know, my dad is Chinese, born & raised in Hong Kong, came over as a teenager.) I decided on Japanese for a few reasons:

1. The sounds that you make in Japanese are sounds that we already make in English (a, i, u, e, o….and variations of these sounds)

2.  My dad speaks one dialect and another is taught, so he wouldn’t be able to help much, anyway

3. Chris has already taken Japanese, so could help me through the first quarter or two.

So tomorrow I’m heading to the store to get some flashcards and start memorizing the alphabet. Apparently, once you learn the alphabet in hiragana, you can “read” a lot of things. I may not know what they mean, but I’ll be able to sound them all out.

I’m glad to be back in school and hope that it will be a positive move for me. I’m ready to do something else!

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