The slowest season of the year.

Welcome to the Fall Term.

For all the students of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies's Japanese course, Fall is not remembered by its vivid colors, mild weather or new seasoned foods, but by the four knights of Apocalypse: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.


Hey people, how have you guys been? 
Our seniors said that "you'll always remember the first year as the best one", but how's that for each one of you?
Well, I'll answer that after this short briefing.

The second semester began only 10-minute-long introductory classes. People usually feel happy about that, but I think the problem is that ok, they are doing that now, but by the end of the term they're going to be chasing us with axes for properly handed-in reports. At least begin from the beginning...
Apart from that, at least it seems classes are getting less "believe what I say and don't ask where you'll use it" and more like "get the subjects you like and make them your path to your future job". Although the amount of credits we should be able to handle is still too high for my mortal powers, university is fun. In any case, I do think we spend less hours then a normal student spends in Brazil, and at least Wednesday afternoons are for breezing (soon to become "solving Calculus").

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Man, we are now having Statistics. My brother always said that time stops in that class, but how would I damn know? Quoting a friend of mine, "it's like the teacher is speaking, the clouds are running and the sky is becoming orange already". And you know what's worse? It's not the subject. It's the teacher! I do think it will be interesting, but that guy distorts time with his voice!
I passed Calculus. But I didn't pass Physics. I wonder which side is Murphy from.


Socially? People from Computer Science (and apparently not Information Technology) came back more talkative then they used to be. Actually, the possibility of one of them bringing a gun to class someday has been reduced to zero. Cheers! However, it's not like all the students talk among themselves, and I'm sharp 30 minutes away from a special (read as "useless") class called ものづくりデザイン, in short, design for Engineering. What worries me is that the class does not focus on programming or actually designing, but in teamwork. Yes. T-e-a-m-w-o-r-k. And the groups are random, because we need to learn to work with new people in an instant.


Look, I do support the idea. But I think it will be an epic fail.


I mean, even when speaking in Portuguese, work-groups never were my forte. It got complicated only to decide who would say each paragraph of a text out loud. Imagine 4 Japanese students and a Brazilian building a homepage!
It even looks like a joke, right.
"4 Japanese and 1 Brazilian are sitting at a computer room..."
Dear. 


Anyway, getting back to the point, how are your classes? Are you also spending about a hundred dollars every semester with new books that you don't finish?


Apart from my university life...
I started watching Naruto and I loved it...
I started studying for Japanese Proficiency Test but I'll take it next year...
hm...
I heard Harumi Murakami is awesome and want to read something from him...
and my apartment is almost complete. That's pretty much it! 

Hope you guys are well. Have a nice week!


P.S.: oh and I'll finish the post about my vacations soon, so be alert for the older texts... and please comment once in a while. .__.