Welcome to my blog. My name is summer and I’m from southwest China. I’m taking my first Japanese language course this semester, but my interest in Japanese culture goes back a long way. As a child I liked the Japanese actresses Komaki Kurihara, Yoko Takashi and Yamaguchi Momoe and used to go to the theatre to watch their movies. I also liked to read Japanese detective stories and novels. I’m learning Japanese because my interest in Japan and Japanese literature and poetry. I hope that one day I will be able to read Murasaki Shikibu and Kawabata Yasunari in Japanese.

I’ve never studied the language before, so class is fast-paced and a little challenging, with a lot of new vocabulary for me to memorize and recite. But I like the learning of the language so far, and it’s exciting to be able to say some Japanese out loud.

I’ll be posting regularly, so feel free to stop by again!