Music and Japanese... together!

I signed up for University Chorus, mainly because of peer pressure (how terrible), but also because they are focusing on Japanese music this semester.
Considering that the majority of my competence in Japanese comes from music, I consider this to be some sort of sign.

The only problem is having to take my inhaler halfway through the class.

But one of the songs we're learning is Tegami ~Juugo no Kimi e~ by Angela Aki. (The video has subtitles, even!) It's a song I actually know and love, so I was very excited.

The music teacher also said I could use the piano in the practice room whenever it was free! There are two pianos in the Kehau and Kauanoe residence hall lounge areas, but both of them have tons of sticky keys and don't really do well with faster songs. It was very frustrating trying to play them this morning.

We had our assessment test in Japanese 201 today, which was awful. There are 210 kanji that I am supposed to know... and I know quite a few of them on paper, but I can't write to save my life.
That, and I couldn't remember the word for 'library'.
I'm predicting a lot of study time.

Last night at dinner the four Japanese girls I was sitting with told me that my original kanji name I found in Japan was not cute, so they put their heads together and made up a different version. It was really interesting watching them brainstorm, and they thought really hard about it! It ended up like this:
麗 - 'rei', which means beautiful. Misa says she'd feel a lot of pressure with this character instead of her own 'mi', also meaning beautiful.
知 - 'chi', knowledge? It's the same as in Chisa's name so she let me use it.
絵 - 'e', picture. I think Risa may have thought of this.
瑠 - 'ru', as in the word ruri, which is a really deep blue, or lapiz lazuli. Masa said it's a really pretty color. I think I like this one the best.

But they all agreed it's way too long for a name! I'm known as my last name in class, in the Japanese style, and it's a massive pain to pronounce at 7 syllables long (heizerutain), but I'm sitting next to a Wilkerson so it's not all that bad. But even in English no one can spell it.

Now it's off to Walmart! If I can find the shuttle! If not, it'll be a nice tour of the campus.