Interesting day today, on my walk the 雰囲気(funiki) of the area reminded me of why I had fallen in love with this country the first time. Although I now have no plans to stay here(one winter was enough, and I miss my protein, among other necessities that are only in the US(Her)) I had a glimpse of what it was like when I made my plan. I seriously think that it has a lot to do with the fact that today was a good day at school. I was reminded of when I just started in Japanese, and I was learning something new every day, along with being challenged just a bit by all the tests. The fact that I didn't have to haul my heavy legs around town on a rickety bike probably also added to it. Oh, and I was an alpha today, I think I can keep it up, if I just stop giving a shit about being accepted by the people around me, and just do what I want to do, not what we or they want to do.
Anyways, to the topic of the post, while farting around on the internet procrastinating my time away I came across something that might actually be useful. It's called traineo and although I'm not sure if it's going to actually work for me(I'm pretty sure it's based on losing weight, and I'm trying to go from 175-180) I still think it'll be nice if I can track my progress. Aaaannnnyways, while clicking around on the site I came across an interesting post called "100 push-ups". There's a fitness test for my new plan and it requires 60+ push-ups to gain the rank of upper echelon, which I usually want. Because of that I was captivated and brought to a site that had a program to be doing 100 push-ups non-stop in 6 weeks. Unfortunately I only have 4 weeks until I get a chance at him*, and I have to be able to complete the challenge. This made me a little upset, until I found that due to my current state of fitness, I can skip half the program. So I am now on a course to be doing 100 push-ups non-stop(which I've never been able to do before). Also, on the site was a program for 200 sit-ups(once again, useful for the test), which I've already started, once again on week 3 rather than 1. Finally, being hyped up from my chocolate dinner, I found the section on 200 squats. The basic requirement(to skip half) is 30 and to me that seemed like a joke. So I decided to perform their "fitness test" to see where I should start, and found that I can already do 200 squats, and probably a lot more, before getting really tired(note: after 200 I was short of breath, and my heart was beating, but my muscles were nowhere near ready to quit like with the other exercises). So now my weekly plan is sit-up training 3 days a week(MWF); push-up training 3 days a week(STT); and on the final day(S), at least 200 crunches(I lernd semicolens to!!1).
*Note on him: I know that there is no reason to believe it's true, but for some reason when She was talking to him it reminded me of when the one who's better than me was talking to the nerd. I really need to get this under control, because if it goes down again like last time I will never be able to get out of the stump, but my gut just hates all of them that make Her get that look on Her face, especially when they talk like that...
Japanese(Yay!!): 雰囲気(ふんいき/funiki) this one has a tricky spelling, and it's always hard to get it out on the computer correctly the first time. It means "atmosphere" and the reason that it came up was because it was on my test this morning, so I still had down to the stroke order for all the kanji fresh in my head while writing this, and it just happened to pop up before the English equivalent. Also, it probably has something to do with my essay that I used to get into this school.
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