Danny Boy

My phone rang. I jumped up to answer, more excited than I should have been, probably, but I had just moved to Seattle and getting phone calls was still a rare thing.
Especially on a Friday evening.
“What are you doing?” The voice on the other end belonged to my best friend and one of [...]

Did it! Kinda.

The results came in yesterday and, congratulations me, I passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, level 3.
What’s bothering me is that I just barely passed. 65% cumulative when I had been hoping and expecting to get closer to 75% or 80%. Essentially, after a full year of studying and working at the language, [...]