Sometimes, I like to eat food

My presentation is one that I would like to forget because I know it was horrible. There's no sense in denying what it was. However, there were extraneous circumstances that led to what it was. If I could have avoided both of my note and presentation files becoming corrupt Sunday night, life would have been amazing. But the combination of a test week and those corrupted files turned what could have been good into what the presentation turned out to be.That being said, I feel that I did a decent job of presenting. The only thing I wish that I had enough time to do, is actually write my song in Japanese. But, my muse is difficult to find, and I only found her about an hour before I had to leave. So...yeah.

Onto the grammar!
So, I'll cover 始めます as an addition to a verb. Basically, whenever you add this to a verb, it indicates the verb has begun. And conjugating it is real easy, all you have to do is add 始めます to the end of a verb stem. For instance, I began reading a book would be 本を読み始めます。

Presentations!
Music is an essential part of becoming e-famous.
Peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, and bread are essential for becoming a fluffernutter.
You have to tip 15% at restaurants.
Apparently, waiters and waitresses don't really make a lot of money.
Don't tip at fast food/fast casual eateries.

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Alright, well, I guess I’ll begin my post with a grammatical section instead of listing my ideas for Tobira. One of the grammar points was taking an adjective and adding さ to the adjective to turn it into a noun. With いadjectives, you just drop the い and replace it with さ and then you’ve gone and turned an adjective into a noun. With な adjectives, you just add さ to the end of the adjective. For instance, 元気 would become 元気さ. So, that’s that grammar point. Pretty easy, I would be inclined to think.

Alright, now I’ll dive into the reflection part. For learning, I learned about the different Japanese political units and which ones had a special distinction to it. I also learned about various other parts of Japanese geography. Most fun thing…hmmm, to be honest, I can’t think of anything that was really all that fun. I liked learning about the geography, that’s an interesting thing the first time I go about learning it. I didn’t have success. For the week that this blog is intended for, my biggest challenge was getting accustomed to how Tobira is set up. It’s miles apart from Genki and I don’t really know how I feel about it yet. I’m approaching it with mild caution. Getting over that challenge is just going to take time.

Now ,as for ideas regarding what to do with Tobira. I’m honestly a bit lost for words when it comes to the ideas. I liked the worksheet we did with the first 7 grammar points, that was quite useful. But I haven’t had much time due to exams to really look through the book and figure out what would be a beneficial way for myself to learn from it. Honestly, this is going to be more a patience thing for me since I don’t know what to fully expect from the book yet.