Manga & Me

わたしはまんががだいすけです。One of my favourites in the しょじょgenre is いまどき。I know it sounds really cheesy to like しょじょ, but it's one of my guilty pleasures. いまどき in English means "nowadays." I thought this was a fitting title because when I first got to Canada, I really missed my home in とうきょうso I read まんが online. まんがをよみました。Reading this series always made me think that "nowadays" my life is so different from what it was before. わたしはとうきょうにすんでいました。This served as one of the only connections to my childhood in Japan, and to this day I still get really nostalgic when I read まんが or watch アニメ。

Why Japanese

I chose to study Japanese because I lived in Tokyo for three years when I was younger, but I have since forgotten most of the language. It’s funny to look back at old home videos and not understand what five-year-old me was rambling on about. Partly because I love the culture and partly because I want to watch the original Pokemon series in Japanese, I’ve decided to study this language. I’ve enjoyed my first two weeks of lessons; I’m excited to learn more Japanese grammar. I’m most scared of learning kanji because I'm afraid I will confuse Japanese characters with Chinese characters. Well, here goes nothing! I’m going to try my best (がんばれ)! 

Mini-Biography

わたしのなまえはトキエんです。

コロンビアだいがくのいちねんせいです。

じゅななさいです。

ちゅごくじんです。

ときょにすんでいました。

トロントからきました。