Japanese

My brother is teaching me Japanese.
I signed up to take it next fall, but figured I'd get a head start.
My brother is, after all, basically a genius. Not to mention a huge fan of anything that has to do with Japan. So he's more than willing to help me out. My free lessons are my birthday gift, he says.
What a cutie.

Tonight, I learned how to say the following:

'Minna san! Kore wa watashi no cake desu!'

Roughly translated, this means "Everyone! This is my cake!"

You had to be there to understand, but... let's just say that I love me some homemade carrot cake. Mmm mmm good.


In all seriousness, though, I'm really excited to get started. He's going to teach me hiragana and katakana, maybe some basic kanji, and whatever else that comes up. It'll be nice to be a little ahead once classes start. Seeing how I'm pretty sure that I'll be going to Japan over winter break, it'll be nice to hopefully have some conversational skills and helpful vocabulary under my belt!

Oh man. I'm stoked!