Wednesday, July 02, 2008

A longing for the hallowed halls of academia...

I miss school.

Sure, I bitch about having no time. I complain about being so busy, and I am. But I would find time to go back to school. I don't care about a degree or anything. I just want to go to school. I'd love to take a course or two, something fun. Another Japanese course would be awesome. I need a major refresher because, though my vocabulary is a lot better now, I've forgotten a lot of the grammar and verb forms and structure and whatnot. I'm also not at all confident with my pronunciation. I'd love to be able to talk to all the Japanese tourists that come to the welcome center. But while I can understand what they're saying, I don't feel sure enough in my ability to reply. I love the language though. Lately I've been really trying to brush up, to the point where I'm starting to dream in Japanese again. That hasn't happened since I finished my last class. I've bought a bunch of books, some more useful than others, and I'm thinking of replacing my electronic translator that my ex broke. (bastard) I have Rosetta Stone, but there is something about language study that calls out for human interaction...

It'd be fun to take an Asian literature course too. I've only been exposed to a small amount of it, but what I've read has been interesting and different.

Now if only ESU's website didn't suck so much...

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