Learning kanji

It's as difficult as they say; in fact it's difficult, difficult lemon difficult. They all look the same, but now at least I can write love, pressure, dark, commit, rank, clothes and enclose, even if I can't remember what they mean when I'm writing them. Actually, 'enclosure' is quite easy to remember - look;
it even looks like a box! Though 'clothes' (koromo) doesn't look like clothes;

I'd love to stay and chat, but I really cannot think of much to talk about today. I did mini racing at school on this website. It proves that you should never put me under pressure when I'm doing mental maths (you had to answer maths questions to speed your car up) - I nearly pulled my hair out trying to remember what
8 x 7 is. And I got stuck doing the towers of hanoi with 10 discs, because I had to keep stopping, so I'd get out of rhythm with it. I have a secret system, you know. I'm not telling though - that would be telling.

I drew a polar bear in Chemistry - though at first it came out as a sort of seal-cat. It now looks like it's relieving itself on an iceberg - but it's not an iceberg, it's a plastic bag! And this was actually working work, cuz we had to do posters to remind people about the environmental costs of plastic bags. I could have drawn a polar bear weeping, but I'm honestly not that good at animals. Or buildings. I just draw people really, and even then I can't do guys.

There, smashed some words out. Gut gut und shpengelgut. Oh, and we watched Blackadder in History - at my request, since the teacher realised we'd already done the lesson she'd planned. It was the one with Speckled Jim in it. 'Corporal Punishment' it's called.