I got started on two New Year's resolutions this week:
--I finally found a music book I'd been looking for: "Jazz Hanon" (you pianists and former piano students out there probably remember Hanon . . . finger exercises!) I'm going to get serious again about improving my piano technique and theory, specifically in jazz, so I started practicing from the book this week.
--I've been working on memorizing katakana, the writing system used in Japanese to transliterate foreign words. It's also sometimes used in a way similar to the English usage of italics. I'm over half done with that. Also, I ordered a book that just arrived today. It teaches kanji, the last (and most difficult!) writing system that I need to learn to be able to read Japanese. It's the system of characters originally borrowed from Chinese. I'm planning to start that this weekend.
And for anybody who hasn't already heard, recently I was officially invited to return for a second year of teaching at UICS, and I accepted the offer, so I will start the 2008-2009 school year in April.
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