tsunagari

Class began with an exercise where we took 4 of the vocabulary words from the current chapter (22) and 3 of them are related while one of them is not. Each group posts theirs on the board and people take turns guessing which one out of the 4 does not belong.

The purpose of this exercise would most likely be to familiarize ourselves with the new vocabulary. Nancy put together 期末試験（きまつしけん）　と　徹夜する（てつやする）　と　失敗する（しっぱいする）　と　自由（じゆう）. I told her it was too easy, but we went with it anyways because nobody else picked something >_> Needless to say, it wasn't a very tough pick.

After that, we went over the causative form again (使役）.

The followup exercise was a fairly simple yet effective one which had two papers with dictionary and causative forms of verbs on each and we basically took turns asking the dictionary form and receiving the causative forms and checking to make sure our partner's got it right.

The trickier ones are the verbs which end with -ru but are actually -u verbs.
Following that, we all took turns saying what we'd have our underclassmen do using the causative form as well.

Renee and AJ both drew something so today we have a double feature. I brought the wrong jacket, so the quality is a little low because it's from my phone.

Thanks for reading.

Flash Card Madness

As I am busy with making flash cards for kanji, I will only note down the most notable parts of class.

• Japan does not have that great of a return policy for purchased goods.
• Everyone in the group got owned by the letter we wrote a few weeks back. Except for 親分, who has practically no errors at all >_>
  

Today's reading was about some dude in いなか who bought old things for cheap and sold them for a boatload. One day he found an expensive dish being used to feed a cat at some teahouse. He thought he could deceive the owner who obviously didn't know the value of the dish (since he was using it to feed the cat). So he schemed to buy the cat and get the dish as well with it. After much bargaining, he finally got the owner to agree but the owner would not give the man the dish. Expressing disappointment, the man asked why and the owner replied that the dish is extremely worth it. I also think he said something about being able to sell a cat to people every now and then for 3 ryou (the price the man paid for the cat). If I made mistakes, blame AJ.


And for the picture from today, we've got our 親分　and her 子分 caught saying "お前はもう死んでいる！" Note the badass expression on Nancy's face.
Photo courtesy of AJおじいさん。

全速力 (zensokuryoku)

Once again, the day started off with a quiz. We've used ぶちょう so many times in this quiz already that it surprised me that I didn't remember the kanji for it at all. I'll practice more so as to not let down that one group in the back corner next time.

AJ brought up a good point. We're both starving and the water I'm drinking just doesn't cut it. I'll probably get some pesto from sbarro's (sp?) later.

We're currently going over page 170 exercise 4 right now in the textbook where we have been involved in a car accident and have lost our memories. When the doctor is asking us questions, we're supposed to respond with "I have no clue" using ～かどうか.

９）どこに住んでいますか。
どこに住んでいるか分かりません。

Nancy got Mango Mantra from Jamba Juice. She thinks they gave her the wrong one though (mango a go go). Damn, I should get some of that later, but curry house is having a 4.99 special later today...

Now we're doing something involving gipsy's. I tried asking our fortune teller Nancy what kind of future AJ was going to have, but she kept saying that we're supposed to ask about ourselves... yes, on a blog post like this that question is pretty ambiguous, eh?

AJ's question after that was "What am I going to eat for dinner tonight."

Now he's giving me crap about drinking water and it not being filling at all. What a jerk.

Before class ended, discussion changed to the という mechanic which is used to relate new things to people who may have never heard of something before, etc.

And, as a closing, here is a picture that relates our group's current condition: