Woke up late this morning. Again. Having to get up by 7 for a 9'o'clock class is dumb. First class, Econ, was as engaging as ever, which is to say, a little dull. Thankfully, the classroom we use is full of computers, so I can distract myself. I'd feel guilty, but all we've done so far is discuss how to read data and set up a model. I learned how to do that 2 years ago. I'm fine, really.
Next class was the personal history class. Where we did… self introductions again. It seems that's all we can do in Japanese classes for the first week or two. I talked a lot, and wrote a lot. I ran out of time, actually at the end, but the prof was nice enough for me to tack on a sloppy end to my written version.
Lush was moss burger again. I think I actually had the exact same meal, without meaning to. It's hard ordering stuff in Japanese, okay? I think I'll just close my eyes and point from now on. Still, it was pretty good, if covered in so many onions. I went to see Marie, the OUS coordinator. She's getting us museum passes, which is super convenient. Most museums charge 1000 or 2000 yen to get in, but with the pass (which is only 2000 yen itself) you can either get in free, or at a great discount. I also asked Marie where I could get a flag pole in Japan. That was fun. It seems 6', hollow, aluminum pole are a little hard to get your hands on here. Go figure.
After lunch was some other class. I'm actually having difficulty remembering right now. Um… OH! Literature and Art. Sorry, it's just the class is so absurdly boring that's it's difficult to remember. Still on the topic of TS Elliot and now some new guy. Starts with and H. You can really tell it's sinking in. Turns out though, that for the final, all I have to do is compare two or more poems that we've covered in class. Easy. I just hope I don't fall asleep in class, I don't think he'd be cool with that. I can't hide behind a computer screen here.
Next was another Japanese class. It's hard to keep track of them, there's so many. It's one of the lower level ones, and I managed to talk Tamarra into joining it with me. It was really exciting today. Jk, more self-introductions. I wasn't lying. Though for this class, each of us stood in the front and had the rest of the class ask questions. I felt like mine went on forever. Maybe I'm interesting? I dunno. The period went by much faster than the Literature one did.
I walked back with Tamarra to Takadanobaba station, where I take my train. It's nice sometimes, just talking with people in english, not having to worry about how it's gonna affect your grade, or if you'll horribly offend them in a way you don't even understand. But man, the walking is really grating on me. Literally. If you decide to do study abroad, make sure to bring comfortable shoes, etc. I'm constantly getting new blisters. Oh, and band-aid brand makes really nice blister band-aids. My hero.
It just started raining as I was walking back from the station. Looks like I managed to avoid it once again. Though, the weather reports seem to say it'll continue on through tomorrow. Might ruin some of the Akihabara fun I have planned. In other news, there was another earthquake today. Always fun. And by fun, I mean paralyzingly scary. This one was much longer than the other two, but by the time I decided I should probably duck and cover, it'd ended. Nothing fell though, and there was no sound. It was just a bunch of shaking. Hopefully I'll either get used to it, or they'll just stop. Well, it's the third in the past 24 hours in my area, and the 4th in the past week, and then there was that one when we first got here, so maybe it won't stop…
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