So, Mello tells me I'm supposed to write about school.
Particularly, interesting things I've learned lately. Uh.
I actually find a lot of the things I've learned about interesting, but interesting is such a subjective statement. Then again, this is a blog, so I can talk about whatever I like, ne?
My subjects this year are all actually pretty awesome. The one I like the least is Old Testament, mostly because it focuses more on me writing a billion essays than I'd like. I think I'd enjoy it more if I could read books that interpreted the Bible for me instead of that. XD My favorite is certainly Japanese, though.
Cus I love Japan and Japanese AND JUST. It is a beautiful thing okay. I'm also thrilled because I found this grammar guide that they had available as an app, so now it's on my iPod, and it was free, and it's also /so smart/. And it actually explains everything that I needed to know. It's so lovely to know that once I'm done reading it, I won't have to wonder anymore how to conjugate verbs or . . . use adjectives properly, or anything like that. I'll finally understand all the basics, and it will be gorgeous.
I just finished reading the section on adjectives twice, anyway. It was so lovely. So now I know not only that there are two different types of adjectives in Japan, but I know how to use them properly, too. :'3
な-adjectives (na-adjectives) are the GOOD STUFF MAN because basically they work like nouns. You can say 私は元気です (watashi wa genki desu, "I am healthy" (okay actually there's better translations for genki, but I'm just going with that)) and use it normally with all the other forms of です, and it's lovely. But they're called な-adjectives because when they immediately precede a noun, な comes in-between. :D So if you want to say "I'm a healthy monkey," that'd be 私は元気なさるです (watashi wa genki na saru desu).
い-adjectives are awkward though. Nothing comes in-between them and their noun if they immediately precede one, but then other than that it's like wtf. ;-; If you want to simply say "I am awesome," then it'd be 私はすごい. For some reason, です can't follow い-adjectives. It confuses me.
Pffff I can't think of anything else to say about adjectives, so that's that.
Chemistry has been another subject I particularly enjoy. I didn't think I was going to like it; when I was in biology I always scoffed at chem, but in general I think I really do just enjoy science. x3 I've learned about all these different theories for the structures of atoms and how our currently accepted model is the quantum mechanical model. And like, I've known about the existence of electrons and protons and neutrons for a while, and for a year or two I've also known about how atoms normally have the same number of protons and electrons so that the overall charge is positive. And also how different numbers of neutrons make for different isotopes. The differences between isotopes are insignificant though, unless you're planning on making atomic bombs. But it would be foolish of me to tell you how to make them, so we'll just move on.
Then uh so since the electrons are the outermost part of the atom, they determine its chemistry—primarily, the number of valence electrons it has determines the chemistry. WHY AM I EVEN TALKING ABOUT THIS LOL THIS IS SILLY um I will just summarize in a confusing manner. Valence electrons interact and then there are molecules and there's all these complicated ways to write the formulas for molecules and it's frustrating to concentrate on that when all I want to do is keep reading and actually absorb new information, but all the same it's cool. ^-^
I also love grammar. I'm learning about gerunds. And just, it makes me happy to gain greater understanding of the English language. XD
Ffff I just have no capacity to explain things right now. But I'm ending it now.
SO HEY MELLO. HAVE AT IT.
