Mesapotamia

And just like that, Basic Nihongo Classes have begun. It doesn't feel much like basic, though. Why?

Because it was just as I expected. Why?

Doldenn the thing and Calel the thing there are there. Before I get into the details,
I'm here to explain the essense of why I call them 'thing' and 'thing there'. You see, I had a very relevant
question which I asked センセイ - sensei - please pardon my Katakana, I don't have internet to program my PC with Kanji
fonts you see.

コレ - kore - meaning 'this', used if the object is in your territory. ソレ - sore - meaning 'that', still in your small
territory, but much farther away from yourself.

You could now guess why I asked. The two are genius Mesapotamians. I'm sorry for giving Mesapotamia a bad name, by the way.

It was a funny thing, though - I came early even if I had no idea of the location of this fledgling class. The funnier thing is, センセイ
came late by what, five minutes? I even got to chat with the two orangutans and decifer their language.

For example, 'faulty' would be 4:30 PM. It sounds the same to me, though.

With the 'faulty' issue gone, センセイ came into the class, and briskly asked for my name - oh no, the Katakana version of my name.

Well, I had some experiences with Katakana, but that was what - four full years ago? And I was playing this handheld game:
Naruto RPG: Uketsugareshi Hi no Ishi.

Don't have a face like that. I was ten, you can't do anything about that now. Sorry for the 'English Romanization' stuff up there.
I don't have any Kanji programs here.

I'm having some problems with Katakana, and no problems with Hiragana. It's a good thing people usually use Hiragana instead of
Katakana. In case you were wondering, Hiragana and Katakana are two different and similar writing styles, while Kanji is a writing style
reportedly from China. The Kanji are quite hard to get used to, especially with keyboards on qwerty and dvorak.

Before you drift off to somewhere because of my teacher-talk, let me get back to the story. I got a really nice entrance from Doldenn -
he introduced me to the whole group - with Calel knowing me since I was Grade 2 or so.

For much of the time, we were given our first Hiragana and Katakana charts, complete with a photocopy of a Manga teaching
Nihongo, some greetings, school greetings, and more greetings.

We were told that we would have this quick quiz, which would actually scare the guts out of any lion - but not mine - tomorrow, though.