Try to teach Japanese to your brother

Alas, I was literally all set to go to Japanese chat club today, but I at the last minute decided to drive up with my brother to my great aunt's house in Connecticut. Some close cousins are also in from Chicago. Cars have an incredibly soporific effect on me, but I managed to stay awake for the first half an hour or so to explain the extent of my limited Japanese to my brother. This was very amusing for the both of us. I stumbled over 'Your car is over there,' and 'Is this your bag?' Nice! Also when we drove through Chappaqua I told him, 'Susannasanwa New Yorkno Chappaqua karakimashita.' (I hope I got that right-please correct me if not.) He was a bit surprised at the extent of the personal knowledge I have of my fellow-students, but I explained to him that actually, Japanese isn't a class but an intimate social gathering. 'Party desu!'

I tried to memorize all the vocab that I could for last night's quiz in hiragana but it totally backfiired and I think I wrote desk instead of clock. I admire my own effort, but I think I was a bit too ambitious in my adoption of new study techniques and probably ought to have stuck with the language system that I could most easily remember under stress. For better or worse, I'm forging ahead, which is perhaps why I described my 4 month old half-brother to my aforementioned brother as big instead of small. I think I'll go work on that right now...