Things that have been happening recently:

•  Skiing! Downhill.  I hadn't gone downhill skiing since I started Nordic.  It was nice to discover I can still do it, and I can also skate ski on downhill skis.  Skiing is one of the few things in Japan that is pretty much the same as in the US.  Except it's a lot less expensive, and lifts don't have the safety bar things, and no one wears a helmet.
• Bowling.  It was the non-East coast kind.  I lost.  Still fun though!
• Table tennis has begun in PE.  So far I'm keeping up my reputation in that class.
• Winter break ended, which I'm strangely happy about.  I didn't know what to do with all of my free time.  It was nice, but I think I was starting to go insane.  
• I'm still ridiculously happy about Brown.

I was looking through my journal, and I found something I wrote from a while ago saying something along the lines of "I think I'm at the point where I think I can speak well but no one actually knows what I'm saying..."

I now think I'm at the point where people know what I'm saying, but I often don't say it exactly right.  If someone said to you "Wait a little, sweater is second floor!" you would get it, even though it isn't perfect.  Although, after trying to think of an example and not having one come to mind easily, I think I am better than I thought when I started this paragraph.  I think most of the time I speak correctly, but often I get little things wrong.  I don't know.  It's hard to judge my own progress.

I never know what to write any more! Life is just normal!  But I will continue to do my best to seek out the little things that make life interesting and Japanese.  

I was considering attempting to write here every day, but I don't know if that would be a good idea.  Quality v. Quantity?  Any input from my readers?   Maybe I'll try it for a week or so and see how it goes...