Put in my resume! WOO! I may get an interview and then possibly a job.

I applied for a job as an English conversation teacher at a steel works company but considering how long it took me just to work out how to write my resume in Japanese; I feel as if finishing that was an achievement in itself, even though the final product was far from perfect. Hopefully it'll make the grade :D

Also, I've realised if I'm going to participate in the 2012 53rd International Speech Contest in Japanese, the 17th of April isn't the 'application' date, it's the date I have to have written a speech, recorded a tape of myself performing it by and send that in WITH the application. So that's what it means to 'APPLY' these days, sounds like I haven't been 'applying' myself for quite a while by the looks of things. HAHAHAHA, wait, that's a bit too true to be funny...

Anyway (<=my favourite word in the whole world), I found my Mister Donut membership card so that means I can continue to waste my money on there delicious treats. YAY! Because if I wasn't working towards winning that god damn toy lion, I just couldn't bring myself to spend $300 on doughnuts.

Without further ado, the same post I put on Facebook, now on my blog, which a lot fewer people look at but funnily enough the people who read it here have come here to read it, Facebook they just get it shoved in their face, so I think this may be a slightly better medium and explain why I have a much smaller audience, hahahaha. *sigh* :-P

So, the plan is to study a bit more, cook some dinner, chat to Ami for a bit and then get an early night. Overall, today has been more productive than the last 3, so hopefully that's a good sign. Let's see if I can keep it going. YAY! Thanks for reading... Dad :-D

Study. Doing it right.

Time for March's post :-P

I realise at this point the fact that very few people read this, and I don't blame them, in fact I'm surprised the few people who do, continue to look for updates seeing as it's been roughly a month since I even thought about using my blog. I'd use holidays as an excuse but the truth is the time it takes to think of something worth writing about (NB: I have yet to think of anything), making it look a bit interesting IE add a photo etc, really just make me go, meh whatever. I don't even facebook status crap anymore because unless it's some kind of major development or something I think is funny, there's really no point in giving it more attention than it needs.

Anyway, a number of things have happened, I've moved apartments (from room 205 to room 202), I got my results, managed to pass everything, surprisingly, and possibly the one thing I'm most concerned about is I've lost my ミスド card. That's right, not moving house, not my grades, but where I left my membership card for the local doughnut shop. THIS IS A CRISIS PEOPLE! Seriously, it's not in my wallet and that is the only place I ever put it aside from taking it out to get points so I can win prizes at the aforementioned shop of nuts made of dough. 300 points gone in the blink of an eye. Nonetheless, the point is I need to get more organised, I've got a bunch of stuff to do today and so far all I've done is eat a banana, some cereal, two bowls of rice, check my emails/facebook and do my washing. Not productive, not productive in the slightest. SO, once I finish writing this poor excuse for a blog entry, I'm going to go out and pay my bills, like a normal person. Then I'm thinking I'm going to have a bath at the Sauna owned by the mafia because my hot water system has been playing up BUT I have to wait until tomorrow to talk to someone about that because today is a public holiday in Japan and yesterday, I forgot. Go figure.

OMG A BIRD JUST RAN ACROSS MY BALCONY! Talking about exciting new developments.

Shot of the new room with my crap strewn everywhere. Still looks about the same actually.

MOVING ON!

So I'll just give you a run down on my grades. The Japanese grading system doesn't have 1-7 like UQ, it has 秀、優、良、可 and of course the inevitable 不可.  So those again in English are listed below.

秀：90-100 Certified badass 優：80-89 Awesome 良：70-79 Pretty sweet

可：60-69 SAFE 不可：0-59 Try again next semester.

If we look at the 'dictionary' meaning of each of the characters.

秀=preeminence, superlativeness　 優=excellent　良=good　可=passable 　不可=failing grade

My grades are as follows

日本語実習g = 90 秀

日本語実習h = 98 秀

日本語実習i = 81 優

日本語実習j = 84 優

日本語実習k = 80 優

日本語実習l = 93 秀

スポーツ実践 = 97 秀

日本文化A = 90 秀

日本文化B = 90 秀

異文化交流A = 96 秀

教養総合H = 90 秀

コミュニケーション心理学 = 80 優

日本事情B = 93 秀

So in other words, I'm safe for now. I managed to pass all my subjects this semester and get some decent grades I guess. However for me as long as I can pass, I'm not overly concerned about how good my grades are, because I mean, it doesn't matter how well you do in class if you can't actually use what you've learned. That's why I need to work even harder from now to improve my overall language ability. I need to do something I've never done before, get organised.

Anyway, that's it from me for now. Undoubtedly, someone will read this and if you've made it this far, thank you for your time and I'm sorry you had to spend it here. Let's both try to use our time more effectively in the future. Unless of course on some off chance you enjoyed reading this drivel, in which case, you have my deepest gratitude. OFF TO THE BATH HOUSE!