How about studying anime and getting credit for it ^^

Sunday 7th September
Had checkout and checkin. This meant bringing down your dirty linnen, checking your room for damage and mark them on a map of your room so that you won´t have to pay for damages when checking out. We finally got our keys to the gate so that we can enter the Seminar house after the gates close at 10pm. We even got a cabinet with a key with a cup, a spoon, a teaspoon, a fork, a knife, a plate, a soup bowl, a regular bowl and small dish, kettle and tray.
Cleaned up the room after the Seminar House residence meeting. Sachiko came at 3pm, we had some Pocky, crackers, Kex and drinks and talked for about an hour, I even showed her around. Afterwards I wanted to go buy some food, so while heading for Topworld, my eyes spot Avail, which is a clothing shop with really cheap clothes, opposite the main library, about 3 minutes from my dorm. I just wanted to check it out, but we ended up staying there for 2 hours !

I found soooo many things, including a black hat (finally!!!), a checkered top, a redcheckered shirt, a furry vest, a white longsleeved Nightmare before Christmas print, and a white plain tshirt ! All of this for about 600 SEK. I wanted to buy more but that was all the money I had on me ~
I headed back home after waving Sachiko off at the bus stop, changed my clothes and then headed out again to meet Sanzhar for dinner. Actually we were gonna have dinner the day before but he was late and there was some confusion. Anyways, we went to Hirakata station, had some dinner; I had beef with mushroom and sauce, and he had a club sandwhich, 600 yen aka 35 SEK each. Then some icecream at Baskin n Robbins, it was veeeery delicious, matcha and strawberry ! I never seem to get enough of matcha ~~
Back to the dorms, and sat in the park outside until about 2am, had some beer and cider and talked about our families which are kind of similar, Kazakstan tends to be rather similar to Iran when it comes to system and how people act. It was so peaceful and warm outside and almost nobody in the park.

Monday 8th September
Biked to campus at about 12.40 to get to my class. I chose the following courses:
1. Japanese popular media and culture
2. Political economies of East Asia
3. International negotiations: resolving the conflict and closing the deal
4. Spoken Japanese
5. Reading and Writing in Japanese

I had the popular media and culture class today. Basically; it´s about manga, anime and television dramas. I wanted a fun course to even out with the more serious ones. However, I wanted to take the history class and the Japanese society class as well, but the history class is already full, and the society class collides with negotiations class so well...
I had David and Luke with me in class so it was cool. Surprisingly there were as many girls as guys there, about 80 percent Americans, 2 people from HK, one Korean, one Taiwanese, one Thai and 5 Europeans.
There are a couple of Naruto fans, some are Cowboy Beebop fans, Gundam fans, Nausicaa fans, Ghibli fans. We will watch some anime in class and read manga extracts for each session so it seems fun ;)

I was a bit worried though that I didn´t have a course about Japanese society, so I decided to check out the Intercultural communication in Japan class. David and Rebecka were in that one. We had to do some peerwork presentations, I spoke to a guy name Yohei, who was very nervous about his English but I told him that people are nice and that he shouldn´t worry and to ganbarre!
The course seems to be interesting but we will see.. Biked back home after that and chilled in the dining room with Masayoh and Alex who just got himself a black Softbank cell. I need to get mine, probably I will try getting one tomorrow afternoon.
I had told Chikako to take me grocery shopping, so while she, Madoka, Ryo and Bill were in Osaka, me, Alex and Masayoh watched 2 eps of the OC. Masayoh liked it so yokatta!
Grocery shopping at 7pm; and well I might reconsider the whole cheap thing. 300 grams of minced meat cost me about 60 SEK, chicken breast about the same. Everything was in tiny portions, because they cook so many side dishes in Japan so maybe that makes it a bit cheaper. I have to start thinking like that.
I had the most bags; I bought chicken, minced meat, preserved tomatoes, milk, fish, rice, spaghetti, water, karage powder, kimchi.. I think it went up to about 400 SEK. It was a pain in the eye getting it all home, and Masayoh skidded with her bike and fell.
As soon as I got home, I started cooking Spaghetti Bolognese and some sallad, and it went very fast to make it, because the stove got warm really fast.

I had Koshin who was here on a visit and Ryo try it and they loved it ! Koshin and I decided to have a Naruto maraton tomorrow evening, YOOOSHI Dattebayo !!
Off to sleep, I got Speaking Japanese class at 10 tomorrow, after that I have Reading and Writing at 11, then lunch, then Political economies at 1 pm. And hopefully a phone after that !
Oyasumi