about DEPARTURES

As this blog is about Japanese, I hope I can record everything related to Japanese in this blog. Maybe many years later when I read this blog again, I would laugh at these posts full of stupid grammar mistakes and recall all the unforgettable memory in my journey of learning this language.
(But still, I found my English too poor to express myself. It's hard to be trilingual at the age of 19.)

さんじに　DPACに　いきます。
I brought a friend with me today to watch the movie. When I was buying the ticket I met a upperclassman and he offered free movie tickets to me. (Wow, it's from Japanese club!)
I was a little bit surprised to see so many people in DPAC.

My friend and I are probably the only two people cried a lot during the whole movie. As a Chinese I deeply understand how important the departures are. My grandmother left me 20 days before I came to Notre Dame. It was really a tough time for me. It was even tougher to help my parents organize the funeral in the following days. （I don't think it's common to prepare the body in the person's home, neither in China nor in Japan, Hanabusa せんせい might know better than me about this tradition in Japan) It should be a respectful occupation if the person treat the dead body softly and kindly, it is "The gift of the last memories".

Is anybody else would like to share their words about this movie?

PS the music of the movie is by Joe Hisaishi 久石让.

what I did today~

おそくなつて　すみません 。(I mean I'm sorry to write my log so late)
きようは　すいようびです。(It's a good day, though a little bit colder even under the sunshine.)
わたしは　あさ　おきます。あさごはんを　たべません。(Yes, I normally skip my breakfast. Sleep or breakfast, I choose sleep:) )
わたしは　Debartoloに　いきます。にほんごをの　べんきよおべんきょおをします。
Dininghallで ひるごはんを たびます。 ばんごはんを　たべます。(Although I live in north quad, I prefer south dining hall)
としゅがんとしょかんで　ばんきよべんきょおします。なかま(NAKAMA)を　よみます。
わたしは　コーヒーを　のみません。（no coffee!)
シャワーを あびます。おふろに　はいりません。
りよで ねます。

I found it so hard to retell my daily activities!! I don't know how to put "when" into my sentence.
But it is really exciting I can tell myself what I am doing now in にほんご！Hope I recite more nouns about the campus.

PS（にちようび）cinemaで　Departuresえいがを　みますを。I'm also going to bring my Chinese friend with me to watch that movie. Anyone else?

My Favorite Animation!

This is my favorite Japanese Animation since elementary school.

From wiki here comes the introduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slayers#Setting_and_magic

For those who have never watched this, here is the youtube link of English version (hope one day we can understand the Japanese one without subtitles:)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8EBEA3FAFC69552E&search_query=slayers

Japanese Food,yeah!

Japanese food is one of my favorite.
Hope the slide show not make you hungry!!

RENのじこしょうかい

みなさん、こんにちは！！


はじめまして、RENです。どおぞよろしく。

わだたしわ　のおとれだむだいがくの　いちねんせいです。　
せんこうわ　びじねすです。

わだたしわ　ちゅうごくじんの　りゅうがくせいです。　
しゅつっしんわ　しゃんはいです。

share a Japanese song with you!

みなさんこんにちは（mi na san kon ni chi wa）

Hi everyone, I am Tian Ren from Shanghai, China. I normally go by Tia. I live in Pasquerilla East Hall. I haven't decided about my major yet, maybe one in business program and something else.

I decided to learn Japanese basically because of two reasons. One is the Tokyo program for study abroad, the other is my aunt's family in Fukuoka, a city in Japan. My aunt and uncle have been in Japan for over ten years and have two daughters. Their younger daughter is currently in an elementary school there. The elder daughter who is one year older than me studies in a Chinese university. Therefore, you might think I must really familiar with Japanese and Japanese culture. BUT!! The truth is: I've never been to Japan and actually know little about Japan!! Seriously!! When my cousin want to hide her little secrets from me, she speaks Japanese!! This freaks me out!! That's why I must learn Japanese here!

I have watched a lot of Japanese drama and cartoons since my junior high school (with Chinese subtitles of course!!) As a Chinese student speaking Mandarin, I am familiar with the Kanji in Japanese, but Kanji characters have different pronouciation and somtimes its meaning has changed a lot as time goes by.

So there is a long way to go for everyone la~

よくがんばってね yokugannbattene



REN