どうぞ よろしく！

こんばんは。
はじめまして。ｋ８です。　わたしは　アメリカじんです。　メリーランドから　きました。　ノートルダムだいがくの　にねんせいです。　せんこうは　ぶつりがくです。　どうぞ　よろしく。

It's September 17th 12:02am （ごぜん　じゅうにじにふんです。), and it is officially my birthday. I'm 19! (Well, technically, I'll be 19 at in about four hours.) But moving on...

You may be wondering about the title of this blog. I live in a quad, and one of my roommates, KKさん, and I are both taking にほんご. We've taken to labelling as much of our room as we can with Japanese Post-It Notes. In fact, right now I'm sitting in a blue chair and the あおい　いす note keeps scratching the back of my neck. Our other two roommates bear it gracefully.

So I've wanted to learn Japanese for along time. When I was very little (i.e. too young to remember), I lived in Japan for two years. Whenever people discovered this, they would always ask, "Can you speak Japanese?" And I, of course, could not. The desire to discover a part of my history that I could not remember piqued my interest. Then there have been the periods when I've been very interested in anime or manga (mostly through the influence of my brother), and those periods kept my interest in the language alive. And somewhere along the way, I developed an apreciation for the written Japanes language. I enjoy the (relative) simplicity of the hiragana and katakana freely mixing with the complexity of the kanji. To me, it is beautiful.