Japanese Test....

...yeah...well.....

If they had questions about "You'd like to get up off the carpet and put on clothes and go to day service, wouldn't you?" - then I'd have aced the thing!

But instead Level 4 had things about Kenji and whether Takashi-san had helped him with his studies, or whether the hotel reservation is Y10,000 a night on the Internet.

Who knows? The reading was easier than I expected - the long passage was a letter from an old person thanking the junior high school students who came to help him, and the listening was easy for me because I listen to Dear Son's daily dinner lectures about all-things-under-the-sun. 
But the kanji.....ahh.....I hadn't studied enough higher level kanji really. And it was questions that didn't allow guesswork,, so I used that time honored test taking technique - choose c).

Anyway.
December 2 2008. That's when it all started.....I was furnishing an apartment ready for my boyfriend's mother, who was moving to Sapporo to live next door to us. I was wondering what to cook for dinner (things never change!) and my life as an Oyomesan was about to start...

Down memory lane...
Okaasan and Me....the first day...