Japanese/Chinese

Tonight I went to an event for the friendship family program that I am involved. My host student could not come, but I had fun talking to some of the other students. A lot of the students were Chinese and their Japanese is very good. I always mess up on the self introduction that are so important in Japan. I forget to say my name, just blurt out the other stuff I want to say.
I would love to start studying Chinese, but I think I should master my Japanese first. I love to study the chinese characters of the Japanese language. I should start writing this blog in both English and Japanese. Good Luck to all of you who do not know Japanese....maybe you will learn something!