Level 3

School today was just the Level 3 Japanese Language Proficiency Test. The teachers managed to mark it quickly, before we left. I got 68 in the listening, 57 in the grammar, and 81 in the kanji/vocabulary test, giving me an overall score of 65.75. The pass level is 60, so that is cool, no? I think most of us passed this time, though. James managed to get his usual sickeningly high scores. He did study languages at university, I remembered the other day, so my new excuse is that he knows how to learn a language quickly, and how to break it down into its important component parts.

After the test, I went to my tea sensei’s house with Oh-san, aka Big Bird. I enjoy my tea, and I am slowly learning it. I think I am going to forget a lot of it during my travels, which is a pity, since my teacher is seemingly looking forward to my family coming and me performing for them. I'm sure they'll be understanding to my mistakes, and to the pain I feel in my legs. They'll have seats, at least.