First Post…

Okay, here it is.  The first post.  The hype is…well, not here.  Mainly because I didn’t really tell anyone I was even creating this blog.   So what is the real purpose of this?

Well mainly, it’s to keep track of my progress as I expand my language and cultural knowledge.  I’m going from knowing only English to learning one of the hardest languages that native-English speaker can learn – Japanese.  I always get asked, “Why Japanese?”  Well, to be honest, it comes down to the challenge.  If I’m going to devote hundreds if not thousands of hours to learning a new language, why not choose one of the hardest?  It’s not only that though, I actually find Japanese culture very interesting.  There’s a big sense of tradition I’ve seen that you don’t find the U.S. very often.  I really want to learn as much as I can and eventually, hopefully, be able to travel and experience it for myself.

So in a nutshell, I’ll be keeping track of the things I learn on a daily basis and things I just find interesting.  It will be really cool a year from now to look back and see how much things have changed and how much I have learned.  I’ll be putting small things here and there from my personal life, but the focus will mainly be focused on the progression of my knowledge and my cultural enrichment.

Everything looks kind of bland right now on the blog, but I’ll be working on that bit by bit as time goes on and hopefully things will be looking better and more lively very soon. I’ll try to put updates out daily as I do plan on studying daily – like I have been for the past 2 weeks, but we’ll also see how that goes.