Classes

So, since I'm done with one week and I haven't gotten around to this, this semester I'm taking 4 classes:

- Spoken Japanese, L2
Pretty much 5 hours a week; grammar and vocabulary. The sensei is pretty nice, and the class is only about 10 people, so it's a very good learning environment.

- Reading/Writing Japanese, L2
3 hours a week on Kanji. I've had this class just three times so far, and I think I've learned about as much in 3 hours as a month in Eau Claire, and it's just technically been review so far. (though I think a lot of that is just because I'm around the language) The class is about 15 people, and the teacher studied at UW-Madison for a while, so we've had some things to talk about since the first class.

- Zen Buddhism
3 hours/week on this. This is probably the class which I'm taking more for credit than any of the others, but it's something I'm interested in at least to having a preference for it over the other 4-5 choices I had for classes that counted towards a JPN minor.

- China / Japan Relations
3 hrs/week as well. This class I thought would be the one that I'd care about the least, but the teacher is really quite amazing. I've talked to at least 5 people who said that they were planning on dropping the class until the first class ended. He's just one of those professors that has his opinions, but really knows what he's talking about and is passionate towards it. This class also has several trips planned in October, (including ground zero at Hiroshima) so there should be some interesting pics coming.