So, blogger has been stupid to me for sometime. Hence, the lack of blogs.

Not too much has gone on lately. I wish I could say something wonderful and fantastic has been happening in Japan, but I would just be lying.

Work is work. Somedays are better than others. But, that is any job I suppose.

Last week I went to the Emperor's Palace. Which sounds really cool until you realize that you can't actually see the Emperor's Palace, you can just walk around on the grounds, looking at stuff which is explained exclusively in Japanese and Latin. I think they are unwilling to admit that English is the dominant language for most cultural exchange.

I learned my first kanji character last night --the word for mouth. I was trying to look up grocery store terminology in kanji to easy the problems I have while shopping. But, for whatever reason, no one wants me to know this, so I only found a few characters, some of them I have no need to remember. Now, I like kanji, I think it is kind of cool, but you can't write strictly in kanji like the Chinese can with their character system. So, no only do I have to learn a certain amount of kanji for some things, I also have the learn the kata or hiragana around it, which, seems like an insurmountable challenge right now. I mean, why have a written language that can only partially be mixed with other full alphabets? I am of the opinion they should just choose one and stick with it.