Really nice photos!! I love the last one with the fire pit looking out into the lake, so tranquil!
What on earth ??
I know you didn’t actually write-write this but it was easier than trying to quote the picture without it vanishing into the unknown when putting it in a details tag
ohhh, yeah that’s what the chapter was about, tho I must have missed something because I can’t remember the part you mentioned in parenthesis That’s probably why I couldn’t remember, kinda felt like nothing special happened. I’ll have to do a reread
Last few days have been very full on work-wise. I have some ridiculous deadlines that I’m pretty much for certain not going to be able to meet and as a result been having to work 9am till 9/9.30pm last few days of the week. My big deadline is Tuesday midday so will either be way less stressed after then or way more if I miss it
Anyway, this is relevant cos it means I’ve barely been reading, just been managing a sub chapter part of すべてがfになる each day (which are generally pretty short, maybe 5-10 pages). I’m at 81% now and one of the main characters keeps being like “I’ve solved the case!” but not actually sharing what has been solved, and I’m getting very impatient lol.
The only other reading I have done is some Japanese tweets, both tokimeki fan comics and also some Japanese folks talking about ‘Our Flag Means Death’ cos me and my boyfriend finished that show the other day and I’m 100% obsessed. Need to find me some gay pirate manga or LN to tide me over to S2
Today I really needed to get some housework done before we have friends over tomorrow.
So instead I read Chapter 4 of Happiness, though I was only meant to read the first half for the ABBC!
Then I also read the first chapter of Volume 6 of Teasing Master Takagi-san.
Today was a good day for reading: I read the remaining part for Week 3: 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん 👵🏼 (11 pages). The book is okay. A fairly easy read with slice of life scenes of the author living with his grandmother.
Day 16 / Calendar
I had a lot to do today, it was about 11 pm when I got to my PC (that’s where I find reading the most comfortable, which is important if you’re struggling with reading). Luckily, since this is the easiest week of ABBC imho, it was quite easy to get through this week’s material. Took me 30-ish minutes to get through 6 pages worth of dialog, great progress.
I would love to go back and see how I did the first week. We’re at the end of the first quarter of the challenge and it would be nice to see how much I improved in only 2 weeks or so. I feel like a lot, but would be great to have some data.
Read about worlds biggest flowers that smell like poop and rotting flesh to attract insects that normally eat this. I was tired and only looked up 3 words (there were more unknown words than that). I think I got the gist anyway, as illustrations helped.
死骸 - dead body
うんち - poop
臭い - smelly
みんなの日本語初級I: 0% → 4%
Also read through first chapter of first part of みんなの日本語. I came back to it because I had my first one-on-one lesson with a Japanese tutor and most of what I was able to say came from what I learned from MNN (drill exercices seem to work) or Tobira Beginning Japanese. I hope I stick with the textbook this time.
Today I chose to keep reading about コナ, having it “easy” is pretty motivating. Whereas before I looked forward to reading よつばと!every day, I now compare it to Satori Reader and go “… nah, I’d rather do that” … Well, I’ll get back to よつば eventually. The important thing is I’m maintaining/reinforcing a reading habit and learning a lot
The flowers above the “Day #” links to my post for the previous day, and the flowers below link to the next day, except for the latest day ofc, they link somewhere special
I reread chapter 11. Also reading the comments in the book club thread helped. Can’t believe I missed the part where Maomao literally says the lady probably faked the whole sleepwalking situation. So turns out court lady didn’t want to be a court lady and woo the emperor, but would rather prefer to be with her childhood friend the military officer. Unless I misread again, 1 am is not a good time to be awake.
Yay, can continue reading as normal tomorrow. Rereading stuff due to confusion is not my favorite activity.
oh btw, this word sounds so not English, like a deep sea creature dwelling in the land of cursed words creeping its way up on the shore to show its face. Like one of these especially cursed durtles.
Is it ironic that I missed a day just on the same day I posted last time… when I had JUST posted that I found the material pretty good for every day reading? Oopsie. Well, never mind. Luckily I have not missed another day since. Though yesterday when I wasn’t at home it was also more of a last minute thing…
I’m mostly reading ハピネス and am like three quarters through volume 3! I did not really look up anything about the series before reading and I was caught a little of guard by how dark it actually is so far. Still pretty hooked though! After I found Death Note pretty draining I actually thought I wouldn’t read a manga for a while… then I thought “wellll, first three volumes are free, I should at least give it a try”… and now here I am, fairly certain I’m gonna read the whole series and it will be most of my reading for this challenge
Oh intruiging! I’m not entirely sure the best way to get hold of drama CDs from the UK but the LNits based on is available digitally so will give that a bit of a read and if it seems promising then try to figure out how to get hold of the CDs thanks!
Day 16: April 16th
What did I read?: ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂 Vol 2
How much did I read?: 14 pages
How long did it take me?: 1 hour 4 min
Read a whole chapter today! This one was interesting because one of the featured characters from the first book returned :o I low-key forgot about him (it has been a while since I read the first one lol) but at the end, I was like oh yeah that guy xD Once again getting outsmarted by Beniko, albeit indirectly this time xD He deserves it~ He apparently hired a detective to try and find Beniko because he was still mad lmao, but that backfired big time. I love how the detective hates this guy, too. Literally no one likes him
Good words
しっぺ返し (しっぺがえし) - returning tit for tat; retaliating
I want to vent. I don't want to end the Easter Triduum in a bad mood so I decided to complain out loud in a safe place.
This evening, I was at the longest Easter Vigil that I could ever remember attending. Now that the COVID-19 measures are lifted, we can have full church attendance. We didn’t have any baptisms taking place and we didn’t do all the readings, yet the Mass took a whole three hours before it was done. The Vigil started at 6:30 pm but I had to be there an hour before for choir rehearsal. We finished after nine in the night but I had to wait almost an hour afterwards before I could go home. My brothers were altar servers and had to help pack up the church but my mother decided to take the chance to chat with other attendees. If I didn’t start acting vex, she might have chatted longer. I still had to chores to do when I came home and it’s that time of the month for me: TMII’m on my period.
In any case, I didn’t want to lose my streak so I still read a few pages of しゅごキャラ! 1 today. I also have a reading streak going on my Kindle app. I don’t want to have to restart it for the fourth time this year so I also read a few pages on my Kindle.