Bonjour

Hello all,

Having a good week this week. I'm a little worried concerning the two essays I have due next week and the (lack of progress) I have made on them... One is 2000 words, the other 1200-1500. Both worth 25%. I'll get there in the end. It just seems a long way away at the moment....

Vic has a programme called 'language buddies' in which you can sign up and they pair you with someone who is a native speaker of the language you are learning. The idea is that you become friends and spend roughly half the time speaking in your language and half in theirs. Ryan signed up for one a while ago (I didn't at the time because work complicated things) and his language buddy is 23 year old Momo. He met her for the first time a few weeks ago and yesterday we were introduced as well. We went back to her hostel and she made us Japanese curry and talked in a mixture of Japanese and English. Well, Ryan did most of the talking-I was feeling a little shy. It takes me a while to warm up in Japanese.... But she's really nice and she got my number, suggesting we go shopping together sometime. I was thinking of signing up for a language buddy myself now that I don't have to worry about work, but I don't think I'll need to.

Today I got another assignment back. To my great suprise, I got an A+. It's really motivated me to do these essays I have now which is gooooooooood.

So i'll be off to do those.

Ciao!