A language I was absolutely obsessed with at age 10 when I came across the manga section at my local library in Adelaide. At the time I had a Japanese pen-pal called Mami who had spent a few months at my primary school. After reading books about the Japanese customs and lifestyle, I started learning the alphabet and performed in the Taiko Drumming troupe at my primary school for three years.
Through this I had the incentive to learn the language and would spend weekends writing out new words on my walls which I had picked up from the anima series “Love Hina”.