Self-Introduction Composition

はじめまして。モトラアリスです。アメリカからきました。じゅうきゅうさいです。わたしはコロンビアだいがくのにねんせいです。わたしのせんこうはシアタです。どうぞよろしくおねがいします。

"If it happened in the world, and it doesn't make sense, you know it happened in Japan."

I heard a newscaster say that on MSNBC this summer and thought it was hysterical. (He was leading into a story about a violinist performing for an audience of people tucked into beds.) I think that quote sums up why I love Japan so much.

First Entry

Konnichiwa minasan! My name is アリス．私はだいがくのにねんせいです. I placed out of the College's language requirement with my Latin AP from high school and convinced myself never to take a language again. Why take six classes in the exact same subject when I could be taking six completely different theatre or psychology classes (my two expected majors) instead?

But then, two months ago, in the throes of summer boredom, I returned to a love I had a long abandoned: anime. Yes, I admit it, I am mainly taking Japanese because I am an otaku. Since I was kind of indirectly immersing myself in the Japanese language every day, I figured, why not give it a serious shot when I get back to school? I mean, the only other "foreign" language I know has been confined to the realm of overblown academics for the last millennium, so it can't hurt to learn a language that will actually be useful. Not to mention that I have a really incredible ability to memorize information, and I wanted to try putting it to use for something besides learning lines for a play.

Well, that's about all for today. I'm really excited for the rest of the semester YaY!!