Lefty

Leftyの日常生活について記入だ。Leftyの生活は寝ることを中心として色々なベッドを毎日探している。ベッドというのは人の胸とか足の上をはじめ、押入れの中や家具の上も好きだ。Leftyの生活は寝ることをもとにして生活だけど、他の好きなこともある。例えば、食べる時の直前に大騒ぎすることが大好きだし、時間と雑音を問わず猫のトイレを使うことも楽しんでいる。Leftyの生活は私にとって、うらやましいというのは控えめな表現だ。

This post is regarding Lefty's day to day lifestyle.  In support of the dominant activity sleep, Lefty's lifestyle consists of daily searching for various beds.  To say bed means anything, starting with the chests and laps of people, and including places such as the insides of closests and on top of furniture.  Lefty's lifestyle consists primarily of sleep, but there are also some other things he likes to do.  For example, he loves making a racket just before meal times, and he's also enjoys using the litterbox with no regard to time or noise.  To say that I am envious of Lefty's lifestyle is an understatement.

練習により

現在、合気道とギターと日本語を練習している。練習するに伴って、満足ができるのは当たり前だが、自分の希望や目標による進歩に比べて不満な気持ちもある。人によって違うけどこの不満な程度はあまり珍しくないと思う。なぜなら私が思うに、目標を集中させすぎることだ。人によって違うと書いたから例を上げる。目標はほめられることだったら何かができるかどうかあまり考えない。ほめられることによって満足ができる。上手くできても、ほめられないとがっかりする。まどかによって表示した満足を見て、その満足もあると知らされた。でも私の場合は違う。自分が上手くできると思わなかったら、ほめられることはついうそと思う。

一番いいことは練習だけで楽しめることだとおもう。練習は楽しかったら、必ず完全に満足ができる。でも他の作者や先生によると、そのことはすごく珍しいそうだ。どやって私もできるようになれると全然分からない。

Presently I'm practising aikido, guitar and Japanese. As one practices, obviously you get satisfaction, but comparing my progress to my hopes and goals leaves me with a some dissatisfaction as well. This differs from person to person, but I don't think it's that rare. Because the way I see it is I'm focusing too much on goals. I wrote this differs according to people so I'll give an example. If one's goal is to be praised, one doesn't really think about what one is capable of. It's through praise that one is capable of satisfaction. Even if one can do something really well, if one isn't praised one feels disappointed. It was by seeing displays of satisfaction made by Madoka that I was made aware that this kind of satisfaction exists. But my case is different. If I don't think I do something well but am complimented, I will habitually think that compliment is a lie.

The best way is to be able to have fun just by the act of practising. If practise is fun, it follows that one will be capable of perfect satisfaction. But according to various writers and teachers, that kind of thing is really rare. I have no idea how I could become capable of it.

まどかは病気です。

先の土曜日、まどかは私に「HYPOCHONDRIAC」を呼ばれた。残念だから昨日まどかはとても病気になってしまった。病気なまどかは本当に変なことをする。昨日の朝に比べて掛け布団が三倍以上増えた。まどかにとっては、熱についても、あせが出したほうがいいといわれている。病気だからまどかに対して失礼なことをいってはいけないけどちょっとやりすぎるかもしれない。掛け布団はこのぐらい増えるにしたがって、私にもあせを出させられる。悪いけどまどかは直るにつれて、わざと掛け布団がなくなるかもしれない・・・

This past Saturday I called Madoka a hypochondriac. Which sucks because yesterday she got really sick. A sick Madoka does some strange stuff. Since yesterday morning the covers on the bed have increased by more than 3 times. According to Madoka, even with a fever sweating a lot is supposed to be good for you. I can't really be rude to her as she's sick, but I think she might be overdoing it. Because of the amount of covers even I'm being made to sweat. It's bad of me, but as she recovers the covers might just start vanishing...

文法の練習を始めましょう

ここでは、日記にかわって文法練習になります。日本語能力試験のために文法を練習しなければならないので日本語が分かる人（妻とか）とともに上手になる希望を持っています。日に応じ、五つJLPTにでる文法を赤字で書きます。初めにおいては、間違いところがありかねないので教えてもらうとともに、新しい記入で直すつもりです。私は学生としては不精なものだが、この引き受けたことに頑張ります。

From now this is changing from a diary to grammar practice. I need to practice grammar for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, so I'm hoping with the help of people who already understand Japanese (Madoka, etc.) I will get better. Every day I'll be writing 5 grammar patterns which will appear on the JLPT in red letters. In the beginning there's going to be a lot of mistakes, but as soon as I'm informed of them I intend to make new posts correcting them. As a student I am lazy as hell, but I really do intend to do my best with this.