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rigelmejo · 3 years

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May Progress Update, and June Goals

6/1/2021 - I just want my goals to be “like last month” lol. But I realize its probably not gonna turn out that way.

My Chinese May goals were:

1. ***Read anything

I did this! Looking back though, a majority of what I read was actually the “hard” stuff on my list though lol. I read mostly Guardian, hanshe, and then I finished one of my easier extensive reading materials. I also read a random few chapters of a few things extensively, just testing things out (like Poyun, dmbj 1, svsss, dage, The Rebel, just a ton of random chapters).

Chinese chapters read (during May): 63 (unlike last month, this number isn’t inflated much - most were 5 page priest-level print reading or 15-20 pages in Pleco reading on the phone, with ~5 hanshe 10-pages-in-pleco chapters so even cut down to my usual reading-length-chapters comparison this month would be ~60 chapters read)

Chinese stories finished (this year): 5 - 笑猫日记之会唱歌的猫 is the only one finished this month, with 3 (intensely long 55-pages-in-pleco) chapters read of 猫城记, intro skimmed of 许三观卖血记, intro skimmed of 撒野.

2. ***Continue listening to Chinese Spoonfed Audio

I also managed to do this one! 20 audio listened to so far! (I think I’d listened to up to 12 of the files in April). So I listened to 8 this month - yes, not a huge amount. But as there’s 36 or 39 files, I’m over halfway there!

3. Optional: experiment with Listening Reading Method.

This is what I mean when I say I sideline off my intended study plan sometimes! I ended up doing some form of Listening Reading Method a TON this month.

Guardian: 12 chapters*40 minutes each (roughly)=480 minutes= 8 hours Alice in Wonderland, other L R Method random chapters: 2 chapters (one 30 minutes, the other 80 minutes) =110 minutes= ~1.8 hours Silent Reading: 6 chapters, approximately 1.5 hours. SVSSS: 1 chapter, 10 minutes = ~0.2 hours (I only did step 2 with this - chinese audio with chinese text, I am debating if I want to bother with step 3 as I can follow the story fine)

~11.5 hours spent doing Listening Reading this month (steps 1-2). Also including random audio I’ve listened to throughout the month, mostly repeated listens of L-R’d chapters but also other things, in a previous post I calculated to be: 22.8 total hours listening to L-R material. Then add more hours of listening to random things in the background, and its up to ~30ish hours total listening this month. This is by far the most dedicated listening I’ve done in a month.

With just what I’ve done so far of increasing my listening, and doing L-R more, I’ve seen good improvements. So I want to keep trying. I checked a few novels and there’s a lot I should be able to do this with (especially since with using Pleco for the translation for step 3, I do not specifically require either a translation or a parallel text). I also have tried some variants of using listening/reading to study japanese and French this month which I’ll talk more about a little below - and those variants were fun and pretty effective too!

4. Other optional: listen to misc audio, watch shows, read Alan Hoenig’s Chinese Characters, do some of my Radical-hanzi book.

Hilarious to me? Maybe so? I actually ended up doing a surprising amount of this I guess? Kudos to me - I think I did my whole study plan I made for once? Although honestly I barely did any reading-only until like May 20th.

I listened to almost 10 hours of misc audio at LEAST (see above) - any chance to listen to some chinese and I did (although with 30ish days in a month I probably can find ways to do more). I watched pieces of shows - half of 2 episodes in Viki Learn Mode (Granting You a Dreamlike Life, Guardian), and some random Reaction Videos in chinese so ~5 ish episodes as far as lengths of stuff watched. I read 28 pages of Alan Hoenig’s Chinese Characters book this month (not a lot of pages but its something - also I put it on my phone which definitely increased my ease to open and read it randomly). I think I did a couple pages of my hanzi book (but I decided to put that back on the shelf and stop prioritizing it).

Chinese stuff done in May that wasn’t on the study plan:

Practiced some pronunciation/shadowing with my apps (maybe 2 hours total but its something). Also hearing more from others really makes me think I want to try more shadowing particularly of audiobooks and/or certain characters in dramas, to specifically get better at my own speaking when in sentences.

had my first convo in chinese where I was understood, without prep time to help my active vocab or correct myself (so that was super exciting). Also texted a bit in chinese this month but not really much just real basic stuff.

while I said I only ‘watched’ around 5 eps worth of content, I did a lot of ‘listening’ this May. Just in the sense of like - when I did watch shows with english subs (which I did a bit) I made an effort to specifically grasp what I was hearing (actually trying to listen only, then replay and glance at eng and chinese subs to figure out any unknonw words). Because of that I only watched a few show episodes this month (and its why I switched to Viki learn mode so I could just click to replay audio/get definitions). And in viki, although I only watched about 1/2 of each of the 2 eps, I relistened to each piece of dialogue until I both understood all words in the line when seeing the chinese subs AND could listen to the line without looking and understand all the words (so ‘intensive’ show listening). So those ‘20′ minutes of each ep took me more like 1 hour each. Since I kept replaying and replaying each scene. I read someone on Reddit did this ‘intensive’ show listening activity and it improved their listening/speaking a LOT, so I tried doing it a bit. If you’re using Viki Learn Mode or Learn Languages with Netflix extension I do recommend trying it, since its very easy with those tools. But doing it on youtube like I did at first, with shows just replaying scenes? It would’ve been easier for me to just take off my glasses to not see the chinese subs and try to listen lol.

My Japanese goals this May were:

1. ***Continue: Nukemarine’s LLJ courses

AHAHAH! Ok so last month I marked this as the PRIORITY (and I was right)! Guess what I did absolutely none of this month? (Or at least, if I did, it was 400 crammed reviews of previously studied flashcards then not actually doing any new content lol). I... just was not in the mood to do srs flashcard study.

2. Hopefully: Continue some kind of grammar explanation

I also marked this as priority. Past me was wise. Past me, I do not listen to well all the time. This was a mixed back - genuinely, I think my thoughts back in April remain true: finishing either Tae Kim (unlikely but i was at chapter 10 before), Cure Dolly (i’m on 6), Japanese Audio Lessons Grammar, Japanese in 30 Hours while writing japanese in (I’m on page 24) - will result in a good foundation and is a priority.

What did I actually do?

I read more Japanese in 30 Hours (I’m now at page 60 and 1/3 through it). I will probably finish it in June. I also read a smattering of random stuff, and “Reading Japanese” a book I have to learn reading skills specifically (not grammar). My guiding principle ended up being: just read/study whatever you want, follow your interest, its better than doing nothing. For May, that worked out pretty ok to be honest and I’ll probably continue that principle in June.

3. Optional: Reading in any form and Optional: listening in any form

Strangely I did a surprisingly high amount of this for someone who didn’t plan to?

I found the site Wasabi Japanese - and experimented with their Read Aloud lessons (Yue-muffin linked to a bunch of graded japanese resources here which included Wasabi Japanese). My opinion: I LOVE their lessons, I love the structure, I love that they have a free grammar guide course to go through (which I’d like to read after Japanese in 30 Hours). Their lessons go from N4-N3, which is a good spot for me to learn, and the way they teach is a bit like Listening-Reading Method and a bit like Re-Reading Technique (video by PolyMathy) which I’ve linked to before.

Their lessons have really nice instructions, which amount to: 1. Listen to the audio several times or even dozens, trying to grasp what all the sounds are/understand what you can. 2. Read transcript with audio to fully match audio to actual words and look up any unknown words. 3. Re-listen with and without transcript until you feel you’re hearing all the words okay. 4. Shadow the audio a few times with/without transcript.

As you can see, its a lot like L-R Method and Re-Reading Technique, with a lot of emphasis on listening and shadowing. I did it and I feel even just with one lesson I could tell my listening skill was improving a significant amount. When I have more time I want to dedicate to japanese, I’d definitely like to go through all of Wasabi Japanese lessons - I think they’re really cool. I also used their lesson-structure, and applied it to listening to a few eps of the podcast “Slow Chinese” which I think was very effective. So I really think their site is worth checking out at LEAST to read their article How to Proceed with the Read Aloud Method, so you can apply it to your own study materials more if you want. I’m definitely considering applying this study method to Nukemarine’s memrise courses, stuff I might listen to in the future etc.

As for other small japanese stuff I did - just a lot of ‘random manga chapters read, random small lessons done’ sort of stuff. Here’s what I wrote a week ago: I read 3-4 manga chapters, 50 pages of a 160 page grammar book, listened to a short story several times and studied it, read a short story chapter (very short though), read 3 very small graded readers, read a page of parasite eve. In addition to that, I know I watched a few bits of lets plays and just in general tried to read a bit of japanese here and there.

All in all I probably only did 5-10 hours of japanese study this month, so not much. The bulk of it was probably reading Japanese in 30 Hours. But I did find stuff I like learning from, which is always nice. And japanese isn’t the priority right now.

French goals from May:

***Continue watching Le Francais Par Le Methode Nature videos.

I did this - 6 chapters out of 50 total. I do think it helps, I actually studied them doing the Re-Reading Technique linked above - since the guy used Lingva Latina to demonstrate so I figured it would be a perfect to do with a similarly structured French book. Also just listening to 10 chapter’s audio while out walking. Just kind of refreshing my memory.

Read???? Read???

Idk I read a few random pages, French not a priority rn. I do plan to read Carmilla in June though.

Next Month’s Goals!

I want to stick to a pretty similar plan tbh, this past month’s worked well. I don’t know how much will get done though, I’ve got a lot happening lately.

Chinese June Goals:

1. Read! - this goal I’ve been able to consistently do, so I’m gonna keep it. Would like to do some extensive reading with easier novels (猫城记, 许三观卖血记, 撒野), and some intensive reading with stuff like hanshe still. However whatever I read, is good to me.

2. Continue listening to Chinese Spoonfed Audio - if I just keep doing this I’ll be happy. Would like to get to a point where I’m just playing it in the background when I work, so I can both finish it and get some repetition-review from hearing more chinese (and some increased comprehensible listening practice each day). But we’ll see - I had success the past couple months playing it in the bg while I played video games. Its just as audiobooks/audio dramas/condensed show audio get easier to comprehend, they’re obviously more interesting to listen to in the background lol.

3. Listening Reading Method - this went real well in May, and I want to keep doing it (and its fine if I only do step 2 sometimes tbh). Would like to keep doing Guardian specifically (but any novel done will be good). I would love to have Listen-Read all of Guardian by the end of August (and in a dream world also have read the entire print novel!). If I can do that, then it means by year 2 I will have read and listened to the novel that originally pushed me to study chinese. Which would just be really really cool to me ;-; It will also mean that by 2 years in I will have finished reading a book by priest (and again the book that got me into the author ToT), so I can start reading future books by priest with hopefully a LOT more vocabulary I know specifically tailored to making those books easier to read.

When I started learning, I had guessed it would take 4 years to even struggle through priest chapters slowly with a dictionary - since I was guessing chinese would take me around as long as japanese to hit milestones (and 2.5 years of japanese was when I just barely started grasping simple manga with a dictionary). So already everything I do with listening and reading in chinese blows my mind a bit, just because I never thought I would even get Here, let alone here in this amount of time. Its not perfect by any means, but its much better than I’d assumed it was gonna take (which probably says a lot about how much more per day I studied and how much more effectively I studied chinese compared to japanese, if I had to guess WHY it took so much less time). So yeah, reading Guardian is a really big goal of mine. And yes - jumping on that, I’d also love to rewatch the show at the 2 year mark without english subtitles. And I don’t want to rewatch until I’ve read the novel because I tend to mix up details lol if I do both at the same time ToT

Practical goal for June: L-R Method Guardian to the end of the sundial arc, and read print novel to end of sundial arc. IDEAL goal for June: also L-R Method Guardian to the end of the 2nd arc, and read print novel to the end of the 2nd arc - and ideally that puts me finishing the first print volume in June. God mode goal for June: L-R Method ALL of Guardian (reading print novel can happen slower cause no way that’s happening in 1 month lol - I say that and now watch it happen cause I said it wouldn’t lol).

I’ve calculated it before so here it is again: Guardian audiobook is about 35 hours, so 70 hours to finish L-R Method steps 2-3. Add in time to read the english translation (step 1) lets add 8 more hours (probably would take me 2-5 hours to finish the english but I’m being generous). I’ve done 12 chapters already which is 8 hours. So I’ve got 70 hours left to do. If I did 2-3 hours of L-R a day (or on average), I could finish the novel in June. Like 1 hour Mon-Fri (20 days = ~20 hours), and 5 hours each weekend day (10 days = ~50 hours). That would have me finishing around July. However... that’s unrealistic lol. Now if for half the days per month (15) I could do 4-5 hours a week (the other days doing nothing), I could get done by the end of June. So like... realistically either I get super into Guardian and do a lot in a couple weeks (in which case its totally possible to finish just like I managed to watch ~60 eps of Love and Redemption, ~40 hours, in like 4 days because I was so into that show). I’m starting to get why the writer of L-R Method tended to do this in a focused burst for 8-10 hours a day for a couple weeks - much easier to make the time, if you’re just super into it for a short period of time. Its much harder to make a few hours to do this for multiple months (also why I think a lot of ppl did HP when testing this method, since the 1st audiobook is like 9 hours total so its only 18 hours to L-R the whole book). So I guess... either I get super into Guardian, or I might only get through the 1st-2nd arc by end of June. We’ll see.

Also... what a cool experiment it would be... to see where my listening and reading skills would be at after the whole book. And that’s without the shadowing/translation steps 4 and 5 which I’d like to try eventually lol.

4. Optional - do anything in chinese, shows, manhua, misc audio. My new feelings are: if I feel like doing something, I might as well do it as its better than nothing.

Japanese June Goals:

Finish reading Japanese in 30 Hours - or any other thing that strikes your interest. My new feeling for japanese study is just doing anything I feel like is better than nothing lol. (But grammar guide is still priority)

Continue Nukemarine’s Courses - if I can get into srs flashcards, if not don’t worry just keep remembering its ultimately a priority. (vocab priority)

Optional - whatever I want in japanese, shows, manga, lets plays, video games, reading scripts, wasabi japanese lessons, my Reading Japanese book etc. If I feel like doing something go ahead and do it tbh. (Long term I’ll want audio study to replace Chinese Spoonfed Audio though, like Core 2k audio files or Japaneseaudiolessons files, to study listening skills).

French June Goals*:

*all optional

Keep listening/reading Le Français par Le Method Nature. I just. want to finish that book... and its good review...

Read/listen to whatever, if I feel like. Hi Carmilla...

#may progress #may study plan #study plan #june study plan #june goals #may goals #rant #well this month went by surprisingly well for chinese i am actually shocked i stuck to everything i planned to do more or less #also truly shocked by the READING amount tbh #unfortunately considering how long chinese novels are lol i need to get to more like 200-300 chapters a month ToT if i wanna be able to fini #cnovels in reasonable amounts of time

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seoulfulcity · 6 years

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June 10, 2018: Take Me to Beijing, China

你好,

I actually finished my Beijing blog during my long 12-hour layover in Seoul. I exited the Tumblr app on my phone for a moment and Tumblr decided to just delete everything. So, here I am, in Osaka, re-writing my Beijing blog. Sigh.

Saturday, June 9, 2018: Beijing did not start off great, let me tell you that.

We arrived in Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU) at around 5 PM for our 9 PM flight to Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK). Little did I know, Wu Lei was also departing CTU that same time. He actually starred in a few famous Chinese dramas such as The Whirlwind Girl (Both the first and second one - shout out to Yang Yang and Ji Changwook) and Nirvana in Fire. Great way to start our Beijing adventures, right?

We went through security fairly quickly and had three hours to explore CTU after. Closer to our departure time, our flight was delayed to 10:10 PM with a new arrival time of 1:05 AM.

Just an hour of delay - nothing to worry about. Give or take an hour or two for transportation between PEK to our hotel by the Forbidden City, and we're looking at arriving around 3 AM.

Fact: We're only in Beijing the entire day of June 10 and we were flying out of the city the next day; so here's where the problem begins. We were supposed to go to the Great Wall at 7 AM and stay there until noon.

I saved two hours for the ride going back to the city and from 2-4 PM should have been the Summer Palace and the Temple of Heaven. Then we visit Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in the evening and call it a successful day in Beijing. Spoiler alert - none of that happened. This is an introduction to what is known as The Murphy's Law.

It all started with the flight delay.

After announcing the one-hour delay, they later changed it to "indefinite delay" due to bad weather in a nearby airport. Great. Indefinite delay. Not even the people in the receptionist in front of the airplane entrance had an estimate when we were gonna board.

Just "indefinite".

Luckily (well, no), we boarded the plane half an hour past midnight for a three-hour flight to Beijing. We were estimated to arrive around 4 AM. So, that 7 AM trip to the Great Wall needed to be changed, I suppose. To make it more interesting: after we landed in PEK at 4 in the morning, we were greeted by this beautiful marquee:

A 50-minute wait for a taxi at 4 in the morning. This was unbelievable. We only had one day to spend in Beijing and Murphy seemed to be keeping himself busy with us.

Sunday, June 10, 2018: We did not arrive to our hotel until 5:30 AM; we quickly agreed to hike up the Great Wall around noon instead. It might be a little sunny and crowded, but at least we would get enough rest. We cut the times for the Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, Tiananmen Square, and the Forbidden City in half to accommodate with our extra hours of sleep.

Once again. Murphy was very busy that day and had plans on his own for us.

That morning, we talked to the receptionist regarding the best ways to travel to the Great Wall and she said that taxis can't access the walls and public transportation will take about two hours each way.

We did not have the time to have four hours just for transportation. What about a private driver? 900 yuan. Nope. Too expensive. Group tours? Last one that picked tourists up in front of our hotel left at 7 AM. Great. Now what?

We planned to take a taxi from the hotel to Deshengmen Station, which would take us directly to the most popular tourist spot of the Great Wall - Badaling.

We hailed the taxi, who told us that since it was a Sunday, the last bus from Deshengmen to Badaling was at 10 AM.

Okay, mister. Come up with a better lie.

So, he offered to drive us to a nearby station (I don't remember what it was called since he used a translation app during the entire ride - Wufanglian? Wufangyin? Wangfingyin?) where a group tour can drive us to Badaling, see some Ming tombs, and a Chinese garden with entrance tickets and lunch included for only 210 yuan.

Not bad since the driver said they would drop us back to the station, which was very close to our hotel anyway. The group tour would save us the time and the stress with finding transportation. We naively agreed to it.

Now, let us cut to the chase - this was a scam trip.

The bus was filled with middle-aged Chinese locals, a family with two children, and a young couple in their mid-20s, so I didn't feel very uncomfortable. We arrived in a suspiciously-empty side of Badaling, with no security checking for tickets, whatsoever after an hour of driving.

Anyways, we were on the Great Wall and that was all that mattered. I could skip out on the Ming tombs and the rest and just spend my time marveling the beauty of one of the wonders of the world.

We stayed for one hour and went back to the bus. I estimated our time of arrival to be 3 PM so we had a few hours to fit the rest of the Beijing attractions.

I was wrong.

We were driven to a remote area where they had a terrible map of the Ming tombs on the wall.

That was the Ming tombs tour. Just a map.

We were brought in to a huge room where they sold expensive jewelries and we had stayed there for an entire hour before getting lunch of just appetizers, such as cucumbers. That was it.

That was then when I knew this was the type of tourist scams I've read about online.

We stopped at another spot nearby where they sold Chinese chips and we were there for another good hour.

Another stop was with a garden where the tour guide had us walk around to talk about different rooms in a temple, and another map of where some antique Buddha statues were located around China - all in Chinese. Once again, we were there for another hour where they tried to sell jewelries to us.

At this point, Simi and I were just upset and ready to pay a ridiculous amount of taxi fare to go back to our hotel since we were really far away from the city.

We were dropped off in front of the Olympic Stadium - I hated everyone part of that scam. They told us they were dropping us back to where we departed, now we had to figure out where we were and how to get back home.

Time stamp: 8:44 PM. Our day was gone. We were robbed 8 hours of our day with that damn scam of a group tour. I was very upset. We took a taxi to the Silk Market, since our Nursing family were staying in a hotel close to the market so we planned on surprising them before they leave Beijing back to Los Angeles.

After exploring the Silk Market, which was surprisingly a very fancy mall of six floors where you get to practice your haggling skills, we walked to the hotel where our Nursing family was staying.

We stayed for an hour until we had access to Wi-Fi and saw on Snapchat that they departed Beijing at 11 in the morning.

Bummer. All our plans went down the drain.

We arrived back to our hotel close to midnight and agreed to visit Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City early morning before our 1 PM flight to Hong Kong. Our hotel was situated just a 10-minute walk to the Forbidden City, so we spent the first part of our morning exploring the Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.

So, what did I think about my experience in China? Let's go back to the 10 fears mentioned in my Macau and Guangzhou blog.

China is filled with scammers and you have to constantly be wary of your surroundings - I only had this experience in Beijing, so I can't generalized the entire country based on that one incident, but yes. Scammers are ubiquitous in China and you need to be aware and educate yourself on the different schemes they use prior to visiting the country to avoid being placed in that situation.

Language barrier is the most terrifying thing - nobody will be able to help you since English is not widely taught; and apparently people are too impatient to even bother with a translator - Yes, language barrier is the biggest problem you'll have on a day-to-day basis but a lot of apps are available to help you navigate through China. I used Translate Offline and Pleco and got through just fine. Although, the Chinese have this great app that translate spoken Chinese into really well-written academic English sentences and I was very impressed. I still wonder what app that was.

The Great Firewall. Enough said - Okay, no. I made myself believe that all these apps would not open in China, but that's wrong. They're just very slow. If you use your data, you have access to all the Western apps, but if you use the Wi-Fi, then you wouldn't be able to even use them with how slow they are; but I used ExpressVPN during my entire trip in China.

China has a history of tracking its citizens, and visitors need to buy things that could prevent identity theft - I never really had an experience with this but I was told that WeChat is used by the government to track its people - and WeChat is everywhere. China is almost cashless because of WeChat - it's crazy. You can't survive the country if you don't have this app installed on your phone. This is a link to Mamahuhu’s video on how important WeChat is to the daily lives of the Chinese population if you want to find out more about it: China is Beyond Cashless As a review, WeChat and a VPN are the two most important apps you need installed prior to visiting the country.

Pollution. The internet needed me to buy a thick face mask to protect my respiratory system - Yup. The air was mean to my throat which gave me dry cough throughout my stay in China. You can see me wearing a black face mask in most of my pictures in the country. Even a few weeks after leaving Beijing, my throat is still somewhat irritated. It was so much worse in Beijing since you could not even see the buildings with how bad the pollution was. I will attach a picture towards the end of the blog.

The hot and humid weather is unbearable. You won't be able to do a lot with how much energy you're wasting by just sweating - Beijing had one of the most beautiful weathers I had ever experienced. It was cloudy with a nice cool breeze. We hiked up the Great Wall and did not even break a sweat.

Wild dogs carrying rabies everywhere, children pooping in street corners, squat toilets, and basically the complete opposite of the magnificent America. Apparently the whole country is rabid and unsanitary - No. This is just no. China is very civilized most of the time. The only time they aren't is in line where everybody feels the need to overtake. They even have quotes in the men’s urinals saying that stepping closer to the urinal is a step closer to a civilized China. Like, how communal is that? Haha. Other than that, Americans are actually meaner than the Chinese - at least in my experience in Los Angeles.

The food and water are very dirty. They apparently boil sewage water for consumption and the oil they use for street foods are months old. I was suggested to bring different medications for diarrhea, constipation, acid reflux, and all kinds of drugs for future stomach problems - I never had the chance to take any of the medications, thankfully; but for future reference, there are pharmacies in China and you are more than capable on buying Pepto Bismol when you need it. Bringing the whole pharmacy in your luggage is a little too much. I was scared for this to happen, so I only ate in actual restaurants and avoided suspicious places and streetfoods.

The people are mean and unforgiving. They will yell, hit, and shove as an instinct - Only in line!!! Beijingers are the worst during rush hour, and I've used the New York subways!

Overall, China is going to be a scary place for a first-time solo traveler - It is a very intimidating place, especially for someone whose Chinese knowledge is limited to ni hao and xiexie. But, embrace the independence if China is the first country you're traveling to as a first-time solo traveler. It has so much to offer, such as history, culture, food, and night life. I could not have asked for any other country to dive into as a solo traveler other than this one. The country matures you faster and you become more aware of which travel habits you need to change that only worked when traveling with other people and family.

My phone is acting weird like it's not typing the word I want it to type and the cursor jumps everywhere. It rained today in Osaka, so I guess it got wet? Or maybe the screen is just oily from my fingers?

Anyways, I don't plan on writing a blog on my layover in Hong Kong or Seoul before heading to Tokyo since they were very uneventful.

Although, I stayed in HKG for 31 hours, which was definitely a first.

Just a heads-up, I expect my Tokyo blog to be very lengthy so I plan to divide it into four different blogs, so keep an eye out for that one (or those four, I guess). Until then!

谢谢, Chris 「克里斯」

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