kimochii (きもちいい): good feeling

good feeling; feeling good

mimi + ate (みみあて): ear warmers

Another good example of a hard word that makes a lot of sense when broken down into kanji

verb stem + mono

Sensei thought us that the objects of a verb can be called by the verb stem + mono. For example, kaimasu (shopping/buy) makes kaimono, tabemasu makes tabemono, etc. At the same time, you can figure out that wearing a kimono is kimasu.

kushi ire (くしいれ): skewer container

Little container in which to put used yakitori skewers

Kanji stroke order guide

How To Guess A Kanji’s Stroke Order: Great website about general Kanji stroke order rules.

atashi (あたし): poor girl's watashi

Yesterday, the guys at U-Zen were enjoying my Japanese and wanted to teach me funny/unusual tango. They said "atashi" was used (instead of watashi) by young girls from the country side and that I would sound pretty funny talking like that. They said "atashaa" can replace watashi wa.

From Yuko: "You only hear in old tv shows about farmers life or samurai's old girlfriend from back home etc.  It is definitely a blue collar word. So SSG guys, especially Ayumu, will love it.

"Asha onaka ga suitan dayooooo "

(I'm hungry: I will say this if I'm playing a poor farmer girl in country side)."

kochira (こちら): more Japanese demonstratives

This Japanese demonstratives wiktionary page is great, it adds more to the "ko-so-a-do" rules:

re: object (kore, sore, etc)
no: when specifying noun (kono, sono, etc)
ko: location/place (koko, doko, etc)
nna: to describe the type of object (new!)
chira: direction (new!)

Japanese demonstratives (edit)
	ko-	so-	a-	do-
Object	これ	それ	あれ	どれ
Determiner	この	その	あの	どの
Kind	こんな	そんな	あんな	どんな
Place	ここ	そこ	あそこ*	どこ
Direction	こちら	そちら	あちら	どちら
	こっち	そっち	あっち	どっち
Human	こいつ	そいつ	あいつ	どいつ
Manner	こう	そう	ああ**	どう
* irregular ** regular (long vowel)

shitsurei shimasu (しつれいします): I am impolite

People say this when they serve you or walk behind you. It means "I am impolite" but you rarely get a free beer out of it.