Dreaming in Japanese o:

    I began yesterday on the wrong foot, starting when I said goodbye to my host-mother with いってらっしゃい instead of いってきます....oops. She's supposed to say いってらっしゃい when I say いってきます.... ohhwell, I corrected myself and she understood my mistake because I haven't been sleeping much lately(: haha

     Anyway, this small slip-up was actually weighing on my mind all day, because when I went to bed that night, I had a dream where I explained why we say certain Japanese phrases at certain times... I was explaining いってらっしゃい and ごちそうさまでした. Hmm, a dream soley about explaining something....not too exciting, right?? WRONG.

   The dream was entirely in Japanese!! I was explaining the Japanese phrases in Japanese!(: And the explanation even made sense ((I don't know...I was asleep))! Even since my host-sister has come home from America, I have been becoming more comfortable with my language ability. I am now at the point where I will unconsciously think in Japanese in response to something, like if someone asks me a question or I see something scary-- My response is immediately Japanese! (: And the fun didn't stop there~ When I woke up, in Japanese, i questioned whether that dream was really in Japanese or not(: haha. My host-sister and host-mother promised they would speak Japanese with me 90% of the time, and I really appreciated them being patient with me at first, because now I am finally comfortable with just Japanese!

~Jane Claire  ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ