Social sport is good. No pressure to be skilled, people can be really encouraging and the ones that aren’t move on pretty quickly. You don’t need to be good, you just need a good attitude.

Check out KanaDojo. Its a cool little web app that will help with hiragana and katakana.

In Australia we fill up first and then go in to pay.

I think you can prepay in some apps or at truck stops or whatever but its far from the norm and usually a choice.

I read this as demonoid cyst which might be a better name.