finally some November weather

It was looking very gray and overcast before I left for school, but it wasn't supposed to rain, so I wore my sweatshirt and down vest. Sadly, as Scott and I were leaving class it was starting to rain and the ride home was miserable, with ice-cold rain and windy. It was sort of nice, though - I prefer this yucky weather to the perpetual sun we had been having. But I was also quite chilled when I got home.

Emily made curry for dinner tonight (yesterday I made a sort of red sauce and we watched a movie and got discount crepes). Japanese curry is more like gravy with meat and vegetables in it, not Indian tasting at all. It was quite good. I am not sure how I will heat up my leftovers, though, since cold curry doesn't sound particularly appealing.

I have decided to try studying a lot for Japanese to see if that helps... but I am seriously thinking I might not take it next semester (maybe just audit it, or whatnot) so as to not potentially harm my GPA. Especially since the next class sounds a lot harder than this one. I have realized that I'm not really that interested in learning much more Japanese - I can sort of get by with what I know, and the more grammatical patterns I learn, the less sure I am of the ones I do know. It would be much more useful to actually talk in class rather than sitting there listening to the teacher. I am perfectly capable of reading the textbook to find out about the grammar, and some of the teachers pretty much just read from the textbook to us - or follow it so closely that it is sort of like they are. We do have to do a presentation about our hometown, but that's the only thing in this class that we have to do to prove we can make a sentence without following an example. From what I've heard, the next class doesn't have any more participation in class, and that doesn't seem to be helping me learn anything.