I went to Japan for two weeks last summer, and brought with me a little booklet I made with a few useful phrases in Japanese. I found them on the internet, so the only ones I actually knew how to pronounce were those I'd heard before in anime. Once I arrived in Japan, I was too shy to actually try using any of them, so I just let the friends I was visiting do all the talking. I hope to go back again someday, and hopefully this time I'll be able to do more than smile and nod when someone asks me a question or tells me something that's probably very interesting (if only I could understand what they're saying). Aside from that, I'm just hoping to have fun in Elementary Japanese. It's a good break from the Core and the Premed Curriculum, which (sadly) are normally the sum total of what goes on in my life.