Hrmm, adventures have slowed down. The past few weeks have been rather pleasantly uneventful. I spend lots of time just sitting around. The high school kids had exams, then the jr. high kids came to their high schools of choice to take entrance exams. This is strange, because all kids all over the prefecture take the same english test, but they have to go to the high school they want to attend to take it. And if they fail, well, they just don’t go to high school that year, I think. You have to throw everything behind one school, and hope you’re better than everyone else applying.

Next week is the last week of the term. We get Tuesday off for the Vernal Equinox because the japanese are paganly awesome. So I imagine Monday night I’ll be running naked through the forests, elaborate designs painted onto my body with the blood of boars, chugging booze made from the tears of virgins, sacrificing goats, and then culminating the evening by running away from Spanish Inquisitors who still come once a year to Japan… from the past.

The week after that is supposed “spring break” though I’m saving all of my paid leave days for the end of June when m’lady comes to visit… a month before I come home. So, since the students are gone, I just have to report to the mind-numbing office for the whole week, where I imagine I’ll get lots of studying done, lots of reading done, and lots of amazing doodling done.

After that, I go back to school, and the students will all be clicked up a grade, and there will be a large swarm of first year freshmen whom I will delight in terrifying.

I also realized I had no idea how to conjugate the lithuanian verb džiauginti in the present first-person. Actually, I didn’t even know that neutral dictionary form at first either. I spent like an hour finding out. Dziaugiu, right? Reading lithuanian online is really exciting. I used to avoid it at all costs, because it was mind-numbingly difficult. But after studying japanese for over half a year, when I pull up anything in Lithuanian i’m all like, “HOLY CRAP I CAN UNDERSTAND ALMOST ALL OF THIS!” It’s definitely the most difficult of the 4 languages I’ve studied, but I’ve got a real hankerin’ to hone my skills.

Jeigu bet kas nori internetiskai praktikuot lietuviu kalba su manim, as dziaugsiu!