日本でやりたいこと その２

I actually forgot to mention a lot in yesterday's post.

Manga. I've been craving manga since like forever! I mean, I spent my childhood reading disney's and Mauricio de souza's comics. The only reason why I don't read manga is, hum, I can't read online, I like to read in paper and besides, reading online makes me not only tired as it makes bored. you know, having to scroll down the cursor is just boring.

Anime. This is going to be harder. Why? Because anime has like tons of episodes (unlike drama) and after a while I lose interest. But I'll try anyway.

Travel. I'm even taking to Japan hiking shoes. It's not that I'm going to hike, not really, but those shoes are more comfy to walk and to make longer "trips". I'm want to go here and there - if I have the money of course - but there's at least 2 places I really want to go (excluding everything in Kyoto).

Pokemon Stores (?). Like, I've always wanted to go to NY's Pokecenter, so since I'm in Japan, why not?

TO BUY A JAPANESE COMPUTER! Just because its cool. I have a sony vayo netbook actually, but c'mon...

TO BUY A GOOD PAIR OF JAPANESE IN-HEAR PHONES! Okay, this is just because I'm a in-hear-phones freak. See the enthusiasm in my caps lock letters?

Drink caffeine. And milk. LATTE! OH MY GOSH I DRINK THIS EVERY MORNING, HOW AM I GOING TO LIVE WITHOUT MY MORNING CAFFEINE?! It's not like I feel and want to feel caffeine's effects, but It's just a habit I have. I'll probably have to prepare this at home to save some money yeah, but it just won't be the same. I still need to think and explore solutions, because twitter without a good latte is not twitter. And I like to feed my addictions the classy way.

Read. A lot. In japanese, english and portuguese. One of my future goals is to take a masters in translation. SO, hum, stricly necessary.
And despite I feel my japanese is getting and will get better, I feel my native portuguese is getting, well, harder. In the sense that it happens to me a lot, and I mean A LOT, of times forgetting the portuguese word and remembering the english or japanese counterpart. But anyway, nothing reading or watching won't solve.
I want to read japanese literature and academic books I previously talked about. As for portuguese, I don't know how I'm gonna do.

Japanese food. Real japanese food and not just fake chinese restaurant sushi.

Study chinese? I guess... I mean, I want to study. I should. But it's just too boring. I'm still studying, everyday, but I just can't focus. I tend to read every common JPN-CHN word in japanese. it's faster.
Kinda of funny, it once happened to me in a class, I was reading a text with our like boss teacher and I read this really easy word in Japanese. it's like, the classroom was silent, with me reading, and then suddenly the teacher starts staring at me like furious, she asks me to repeat, and I read the same way, without understanding what I had done wrong, until someone saves me and just reads the word in chinese. I had a mental block there! I couldn't read the word in a way other than japanese. At least that's how I felt.
This now happens but a lot more frequently. And whenever I needed to speak chinese (I actually met several times with a chinese teacher, in a week, for like two months, I actually don't know why, it was her who asked me, and I'm not that good of a portuguese teacher, nor that good of a chinese student) and wouldn't remember a word, I would just write the word in japanese and show it to my chinese teacher, and she would just laugh and give me the chinese word and make me repeat the whole sentence, but this time using chinese. Or, I'd just think of the japanese word and tried to read it with the chinese reading. I remember that happened with the japanese word "終了".
I seriously don't know what to do. I mean, I know what to do, but I also know I'm not motivated.

Japanese language profieciency tests! JLPT N1 is the bare minimum. I'd also like to try 漢字検定 and ビジネス language tests. I want to take N1 this December, as soon as possible. the possibility of taking it during summer is just scary.