Count Down: Officially 5 Months

Today is my mother's birthday!

 
I have been watching many YouTube videos about Japan. I'm so excited! It feels hard to contain it sometimes, I feel like I have not stopped talking about it~
Some of the channels I have been watching are Rachel&Jun, Chris Abroad, Sharla in Japan, and a couple random videos from various collaborators. I'm going to try my very best to video my time there but my top priority is this blog <3
 
So far I have a date for the exchange meeting that I will have to attend on April 6th and I have heard back from four of the twelve scholarships I have applied to. Of the four I have received one, so pretty good odds so far and every little bit counts.
 
I have been practicing writing Hiragana and mostly have been focusing on learning to write them. I have applied a little to reading and installed the Japanese keyboard on my phone. I hope to be able to at the very least be able to recall the Hiragana and maybe Katakana. My friend let me barrow his textbook that he used when learning. I really need to start reading it!
 
Only five more weeks of the semester and then I have a ten week summer semester. I'm excited to start packing but it's a bit too soon for that (=^o^=)

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