The team captain and assistant captain for the upcoming softball match were assigned today. It's funny, even though I'm American and literally the only person who has even held a baseball bat they didn't force me into one of the positions. Not that I'm complaining, I'm resigned to playing and batting 4th since they think I have the best chance of hitting anything. On a cool note, I was able to name the team since each class has to make up their own name. Since I'm in class 1F I decided on 1FTW. For those of you who aren't particularly computer savvy it's gamer lingo that means "For the win" and people normally say it when they're getting ready to make their final move, action, or what have you.
I have to teach my class to stop reading it as "Ichi F" and read it as One for the Win. It sounds like a cool team slogan if you look at it that way. It's too bad that most of my classmates won't get the inside joke that almost everyone I talk to in America would get right away.
Tomorrow is a double-hitter for testing. We have a comprehensive Chapter 8 exam and a kanji test for page 13-15, which covers the typical 18 kanji. Still pretty basic stuff but there are a few tricky ones thrown in their like 髪 (Kami : hair) which are easy to read but hard as all hell get out to write. It's already after nine though so I'm running out of time to cram. I suppose I'll cut my reading time back to thirty minutes and make the most of my time to study. Speaking of which I'm on page 207, just shy of the half way point and my impression of the book has improved substantially. It moved out of his constant fighting days and into the period where he worked as a journalist and took over the family demolition business. It's also giving a first hand account of the bubble burst and the affect it had on businesses in Japan, which I find especially interesting.
Well, I'm going to get back to my studies while I have time.
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