Day 2 - The Reckoning

I don't know why I decided to make a blog. It was a bad idea. I didn't last time I was in Japan, so I guess it should be something I should do. I got the day off to a great start by falling up some stairs. Tamarra and I went for breakfast at a French bakery, and on the way back I tripped in the hotel. I now have a good-sized pair of bruises on my hip. Horay. On the plus side, the food was delicious. Had a pastry with cheese and apple in it, and a really good cheese sandwich. Sorry about the poor image quality, it's a little dark in the hotel room.

Today was the second day of orientation, and we learned how horrible a kid named Paul was to his homestay family. It didn't really help to decrease my fears of somehow horribly offending my family. We meet them tomorrow night, and I guess I'll figure it out then.

The other traumatic experience of the day was taking the J-CAT. Japanese Computerized Adaptive Test. Last year I took it online, before I was supposed to come to Japan. I got about a 140? This wasn't much different, and I got a 162, but that puts me in the same class. So I'm taking 200-level classes here. Doesn't matter too much, since I'm officially done with my Japanese major. I got a C+ in my JPN 415 class, so that's done, over, officially off my check list. All that's left is econ. Which should not be difficult. Unless I can't sign up for the classes I need, but I don't need to worry about that until tomorrow. 

I realized that at this point, most of the pictures I've posted have been food. Today will not break that pattern. We had lunch at a place called Moss burger, where I had some sort of chili-onion crazy thing:

And Marie Sato, the Waseda OUS coordinator took us to dinner at a pretty nice traditional restaurant. All this delicious food for less than 2000 yen!

 

Also, most of the names of my posts are stupid because I'm writing these at night and cannot be clever.