With regards to literature, I have been reading a series of Lite Novels, or japanese light-reading books, usually in a series. These have been translated into english, but I hope to be able to read them in japanese one day. The current series I have been reading is called in english, The familiar of Zero. It is actually really gripping and I laugh and cry at the well-written and well translated work. The best part about a lite novel is that there is about one image per chapter, but other then that, it has great imagry in the text. I found out that this series got turned into an anime and I dislike the anime. It has gone too far too fast in too many places, and one of the major plots has been redirected, ruining the severity of a great war. I have not finished the series nor the anime, but so far they seem to have diverged towards a more slice-of-life like anime and a serious, dark and grim novel.
With my Japanese studies, I have gotten up to the past tense, dates, and the calendar. I figured that, since I have gotten most of the hirigana firmly under my belt, I could begin reading some manga, but it is quite difficult. There is a lot of Kanji, but luckily there is what is called furigana, or hirigana written above the kanji for pronounciation. I, however still do not know what many of these words mean and feel like I am reading Go Dog! Go! Again... Maybe I'll find that book and try to rememebr how I was able to read again. I also have Little Tengu, Little Darumaka as a probably easier source of comprehension. I am also in the process of gettin Naruto, which might be an easier read and Death Note is suposed to be really easy as far as Shounen (Males aged around 10 and younger) manga goes.I have also started to feel a little homesick as of late, thinking about how much I miss my mother, dogs, the lake, and MCLA. I will return in a short 16 days, but yesterday felt like an eternity after Irealized how much I missed everyone.
