As some of you, who are watching me may have noticed, I've been sort of inactive for past few weeks.
While I have done some WIP sketches that will be finished in time, the reason is I'm preparing myself for Japanese Language Proficiency Test at the N2 (second highest) level. It's beginning on July 7th at 12 o'clock (Central European time). I've really decided to put for that efforts to train myself for JLPT the last days, since believe it or not, this level is genuinely difficult
I did attempt write JLPT on that level back in December 2016 (sadly without any great results), and while the kanji/vocabulary and grammar part wasn't really hard, reading was a bit harder however the toughest part was listening. You may think it shouldn't be so tough for me constantly studying Japanese for almost half of my life (sic!), but believe me there are two issues that make it for me really problematic.
The first one is that each question can be heard only one and you really have to pay good attention to the words. Even one misheard word may cause a wrong answer. And the second one it's played too fast, even for me, and while I do my best to focus, my brain gets overloaded due to overfocusing
I have been doing a lot of N2 practice with my Japanese teacher and while my average scores are somewhat better than 3 years ago, I'm still quite nervous how it'll go this time, but I'm not gonna give up my Japanese language skills
Now let's leave the stressful stuff for now, because as most of you may not know, I'm attending Eurofurence this year!
Not only is it going to be my very first Eurofurence, but the very first major furry convention
I've already dreamed about going to EF before and seeing what it looks like, but just a month ago I had no idea it'd happen THAT soon
I regestered at official EF page in early June without knowing whether I'll attend or not, but a few days I've made up my mind and decided to go. While I won't be staying at Estrel Hotel, because for now it'd be beyond my budget (and let's be honest here, I didn't sign up early enough
), I'll be staying for 4 nights at Rix House Hostel, just 22 minutes by foot from Estrel. For some of you staying at a hotel may be a better option, but I like the way how I settled it
I'm not going to have my Dealer's Den stand, because I wanna see first how it all looks like, then some time in the future I'll be a vendor
As for fursuit, I'm not going to have one this time, but I'm still saving up my money and will order one in 2020. And I'm and by "saving up" I really mean a lot, since it's gonna be a fullbody suit of my slightly altered fursona, so a maker would have an easier job.
By far, once I'll be done with my JLPT (really hope I succeed this time) I'll be uploading more art and looking forward to have a fun at Eurofurence.
Kentaro out!