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Things are starting to get busier at school. We’re going to have tests more frequently it seems and we also have an essay/speech coming up. We have to write a 1500 character essay and then do a 10 minute presentation based on that paper.

We’re allowed to choose our topic as long as it relates to either history or literature. I decided to write about the history of Okinawa, Japan’s islands to the south. Last year in my Japanese class at Middlebury College, I did a presentation on the native language spoken in Okinawa: Ryuukyuugo. Okinawa was actually it’s only kingdom for quite a long time and had a different culture and history from Japan. The language is somewhat similar to Japanese but is unintelligible to native Japanese speakers.

Since I did a presentation on the language, I didn’t get much of a chance to study the history so I figured this would be a good chance to do that. Well, in any case, tomorrow is Tuesday so this begins another week of classes!

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