My name is Wesley Johnson and, as of the 7th of September, I am a freshman at Columbia University. I plan to major in Economics with a concentration in Anthropology. I chose to take Japanese as my language because, throughout middle school and high school, I had an interest in Japanese but I never got the opportunity to take the class. When I came here, I was given the opportunity to take the language and immediately grasped it. I am incredibly excited about learning how to speak the language and being able to eventually use it in a conversation. The one thing that I think that I think will be very hard will be the learning of Hirigana as well as Kanji because it is essentially learning an entirely new alphabet. However, I am very excited to learn and eager for the challenge.
-Wes