Well, no fullmoon party either.. Why ? Because after googling up some pics with Chikako, the one that started at midnight seemed sort of boring; monks in a line carrying candles and just walking.. So, me, Ryo, Tomokun, Chikako and Todd headed out to rent a movie. The place we got to was just insanely cheap : 50 YEN per movie/music cd and you keep it for 7 days !!!! Gobstruck.... They even had all Naruto seasons, and any other anime, Korean drama, American series etc that you can imagine... Unfortunately no English subs...
We got Identity and Silent Hill and I found all of Home Made Kazoku´s albums to get home and copy. We got some snacks at 7/11 and headed home for movie night !!!
I finally got my room sorted out as well, papers are in neat order at my desk, and my clothes are sorted out!
Monday 15th
Woke up at 11am, got dressed and headed out, Takkun´s parents picked me up and took me to Takkun´s tiny apato for lunch. We had meat and a delicious potatoe salad, which Tomokun´s mom had made as well, but it contained apples as well.
The potatoe salad contains boiled potatoes, ham, mayo, cucumber and hardboiled eggs! So freaking delicious !!
Takkun has a model´s wardrobe, with vintage coats and shirts, a great sense for fashion. He promised to show me some cool second hand stores that are in Kyoto ! The kid has such a thick hair, I think it´s 3 times the average person, yokatta, but he is gonna cut it to shoulder length which I think suits him more though. He has a beautiful girlfriend, Yui who lives in Tokyo, they have been dating since highschool!
Headed back home to study, took a so called powernap that lasted 3 hours, woke up at 6pm, got something to eat and then I tried to study some for my review test. Tomokun was studying for his TOEFL exam, so we ended up studying together, but instead we just started talking about Japanese history, culture etc. Todd, Eddie and Chikako joined our convo that lasted until 4am !
Off to sleep !
Thuesday 16th
Test at 10, went pretty well I think, Speaking and Writing was troublesome with the kanjis again, but Im studying hard at it!
Lunch with Viktor and Sebastian with fun topics of why Japanese girls walk with their toes pointed inwards while wearing high heels.
Political economy class was very interesting, we discussed East Timor and it´s future procedures and then me, Sabrina and Yuji prepared for our expert panel which is on Thursday, where we have to discuss Washingtong consesus and a chapter in our book for about 15-20 minutes in front of the class. It is an active discussion!
Met Masayo in the hallway and headed to the basketball/football/freesbee court where Aika, Ayako, Alex, Mischa, Tomokun and miss Pineapple san Madoka were playing freesbee, and some cool Japanese guys were attempting football in the gazing sun !
There is one very kakkoii boy among the ryuugakusei students ;). It was pure entertainment watching the football match I have to say !
After the freesbee, me and Masayo decided to finally make an attempt at making cheese cake, I had promised her for days and days ! Headed to Fresco with her, Tomokun and Ayako on her funky moped to get the ingredients.
Back to the dorms, where we started making dinner, and baking cheese cake. Everyone got curious about our cheese cake, and the only problem was that we didn´t have anything to bake it in, so I rode with Ayako to the 100yen shop to get a couple of tiny baking tins. Everyone was getting impatient about the cheese cake. Even Koshin, who came to visit. I decided to bake 4 of the cheese cakes in the oven, and put 1 in the freezer.
After dinner and many minutes of waiting, we finally had our cheesecakes ! And it was a success !! Everyone who tried them loved them, YATTA !! The one that was put directly into the freezer turned out to have a icecreamy kind of flavour. I noticed we used a bit too many biscuit crums but it was all good !!
Finally watched the Silent Hill movie with Tomokun, and it was creepy but not in the horror sense but in the "strange movie" sense....
Off to bed, I have a vocabulary quiz tomorrow, manga class and then the resultats of that freaking Friday negotiation will be revealed, yikes !
I got my computer back, finally ! So there will be pics up, probably tomorrow, be patient !!
Love from Seminar House 4 ;)
tisdag 16 september 2008
söndag 14 september 2008
crazy days
I have been soooo busy this past week. We have classes everyday, and some start at 9am. Lunch is usually around 11 or 12 and then I have afternoon classes. And HOMEWORK ! It feels like highschool all over again.
I have been thinking of dropping one class because it is a bit too many classes. However, I like all my classes: Speaking Japanese, Reading and Writing Japanese, Japanese popular culture and media; (about anime, manga and tv drama), Political economies in East Asia (very interesting, about political and economical situations in countries such as East Timor, South Korea, China, Japan and so on), Negotiation.
My negotiation class this Friday was about us doing pair work negotiations, I was a company who sold motor vehicle pistons and my partner was a company who wanted to buy pistons. We each got our instructions and had about 25 minutes to prepare for it. Then we set up a meeting somewhere on campus for the negotiation. I had a hard time getting my cheap partner to buy the pistons for the price I wanted him to and he complained about our pistons´ quality having been bad in previous sales.
So when we finally settled, he told me wanted us switching papers and reading eachothers instructions. I GOT SCAMMED ! His company wanted to buy pistons from us at any price, and they were desperate ! I was too kind ! We handed in the paper and I decided that I have to continue this course just to improve my character integrity !!! Revenge time !
My Speaking Japanese seems good, but Im struggling with our new kanjis, I have to study harder !
People here get drunk all week long. So when I wanted to do something fun on Friday, most people were already hungover from the other night. So me and Sachiko went to a izakaya, drank cocktails and umeshu and ate delicious food. We called Koshin up who came and joined us. Later we went to the Ring, which is an entertainment complex where you pay an amount of money and then do karaoke, play pool, whatever. Free softdrinks included.
After that, I took the train to Makino Station, where Koshin met me up on his motorscooter, he followed me home, these kind Japanese :). However, the shortcut we took was in the middle of the road so maybe not the safest way home.
Yesterday aka Saturday 13th, I wanted to go clubbing. Viktor and Sebastian where leaving a bit earlier though, so I decided to give up that. There is a club called Pure in Osaka, where girls pay 2500 yen aka 150 kr, and guys pay 3500 yen aka 250kr, then you get free drinks all night, and they are open until 5am !
I hung out with Masayoh, Madoka, Chikako and Aika, we drank umeshu wine which I had bought and they got tipsy after about half a glass haha. David and Jonas were sipping beer. Then came A.J and wanted us to play Flip Cup; you stand at a table on a line, 2 teams, and pour beer into plastic cups. Then you drink them up and have to flip the cup upside down with your hand. You get pretty drunk after a while...
After a couple of rounds, it was karaoke time. I declared my love yet again for Chin, the guy at Big Wave and poor him, he blushed. Since I was a bit tipsy, I asked whether he had a girlfriend and he mumbled no, but at that time we got our room. We were about 15 people in one room, screaming and singing and drinking. I felt a bit over it so I snook home after half an hour and went to sleep and slept until 11 the next day. I managed to lock my phone because I kept dialing the wrong code, so Im trying to look for the code paper which I brought.
Today is Sunday, and I had some awesome steak, fried shrimp and rice with Taylor, Eddie, Bill and Liz at Obaachan´s. 500 yen aka 35 Sek for lots of food.
Tonight there is a Fullmoon festival in Kyoto which starts at 1am, so everybody is taking the last train from Hirakata and stay there until the festival is over and head back with the morning train at 5am. We have a Respect the Aged holiday tomorrow so Daijobu !
kisses from Seminar House 4
I have been thinking of dropping one class because it is a bit too many classes. However, I like all my classes: Speaking Japanese, Reading and Writing Japanese, Japanese popular culture and media; (about anime, manga and tv drama), Political economies in East Asia (very interesting, about political and economical situations in countries such as East Timor, South Korea, China, Japan and so on), Negotiation.
My negotiation class this Friday was about us doing pair work negotiations, I was a company who sold motor vehicle pistons and my partner was a company who wanted to buy pistons. We each got our instructions and had about 25 minutes to prepare for it. Then we set up a meeting somewhere on campus for the negotiation. I had a hard time getting my cheap partner to buy the pistons for the price I wanted him to and he complained about our pistons´ quality having been bad in previous sales.
So when we finally settled, he told me wanted us switching papers and reading eachothers instructions. I GOT SCAMMED ! His company wanted to buy pistons from us at any price, and they were desperate ! I was too kind ! We handed in the paper and I decided that I have to continue this course just to improve my character integrity !!! Revenge time !
My Speaking Japanese seems good, but Im struggling with our new kanjis, I have to study harder !
People here get drunk all week long. So when I wanted to do something fun on Friday, most people were already hungover from the other night. So me and Sachiko went to a izakaya, drank cocktails and umeshu and ate delicious food. We called Koshin up who came and joined us. Later we went to the Ring, which is an entertainment complex where you pay an amount of money and then do karaoke, play pool, whatever. Free softdrinks included.
After that, I took the train to Makino Station, where Koshin met me up on his motorscooter, he followed me home, these kind Japanese :). However, the shortcut we took was in the middle of the road so maybe not the safest way home.
Yesterday aka Saturday 13th, I wanted to go clubbing. Viktor and Sebastian where leaving a bit earlier though, so I decided to give up that. There is a club called Pure in Osaka, where girls pay 2500 yen aka 150 kr, and guys pay 3500 yen aka 250kr, then you get free drinks all night, and they are open until 5am !
I hung out with Masayoh, Madoka, Chikako and Aika, we drank umeshu wine which I had bought and they got tipsy after about half a glass haha. David and Jonas were sipping beer. Then came A.J and wanted us to play Flip Cup; you stand at a table on a line, 2 teams, and pour beer into plastic cups. Then you drink them up and have to flip the cup upside down with your hand. You get pretty drunk after a while...
After a couple of rounds, it was karaoke time. I declared my love yet again for Chin, the guy at Big Wave and poor him, he blushed. Since I was a bit tipsy, I asked whether he had a girlfriend and he mumbled no, but at that time we got our room. We were about 15 people in one room, screaming and singing and drinking. I felt a bit over it so I snook home after half an hour and went to sleep and slept until 11 the next day. I managed to lock my phone because I kept dialing the wrong code, so Im trying to look for the code paper which I brought.
Today is Sunday, and I had some awesome steak, fried shrimp and rice with Taylor, Eddie, Bill and Liz at Obaachan´s. 500 yen aka 35 Sek for lots of food.
Tonight there is a Fullmoon festival in Kyoto which starts at 1am, so everybody is taking the last train from Hirakata and stay there until the festival is over and head back with the morning train at 5am. We have a Respect the Aged holiday tomorrow so Daijobu !
kisses from Seminar House 4
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