始めまして！
私は、ミシェルです。アメリカ人です。ケンタッキー州に住んでいます。私には、二人子供がいます。私の息子は、１１歳です。私の娘は、４歳です。私は、とりあえず主婦です。しかし、一月に大学に戻ります。私の専攻は、英語です。私の彼氏は、日本人ですので、私は日本語でぺらぺらになりたいです。
よろしくお願いします！

(in kana)
はじめまして！
わたしは、ミシェルです。アメリカじんです。ケンタッキーしゅうにすんでいます。わたしには、ふたりこどもがいます。わたしのむすこは、１１さいです。わたしのむすめは、４さいです。わたしは、とりあえずしゅふです。しかし、いちがつにだいがくにもどります。わたしのせんこうは、えいごです。わたしのかれしは、にほんじんですので、わたしはにほんごでぺらぺらになりたいです。
よろしくおねがいします！

(in English… so people can point out my mistakes! ;-) )

It’s nice to meet you. I’m Michelle. I’m American. I live in in the state of Kentucky. I have two children. My son is 11 years old. My daughter is 4 years old. For now, I am a homemaker. However, I will return to college in January. My major is English. Because my boyfriend is Japanese, I want to become fluent in the Japanese language. (Please be kind to me.)

I have casually self-studied Japanese for about 2 years now. However, there has been no real method to my madness, so progress has been very slow, especially vocabulary. I started using Twitter for language exchange over the summer and ended up meeting my current boyfriend as result. (In fact, he is in the States visiting me right now!) Our relationship is pretty serious, so I really need to get organized –and serious!– about learning Japanese. While my boyfriend is pretty much fluent in English, his family is definitely not, and I just *might* need to be able to hold a conversation with them someday in the (hopefully) not too distant future! ^.-

I very much need an organized, textbook approach to learning because I have ADD, and I am a fairly chaotic thinker, but I have found most text books lacking (even Genki, which I am currently using). I think TextFugu will offer me the “textbook” structure that I seem to need while taking a different approach to learning certain elements (kanji!) and I’m sure it’ll be a lot more fun than reading about “メアリーさん” and her exchange student adventures. :-D