So, I've been in Japan for an entire month now! It's weird thinking it's been that long, it doesn't feel like it's been that long. I kinda feel like I'm still jetlagged… Today, unfortunately, was not a momentous day. EDIT: Turns out I can't count, and a month was actually yesterday. I guess a big earthquake counts as momentous, right?
Started off with a pretty bad fail. Econ prof said last week that he wanted us to be early today and I totally forgot. Not only that, but when I got to the station at my normal time, there was a huge crowd. The trains hadn't been running right, and my train was a whopping 30 minutes late. So yeah… I was a little late for Econ today. The trains being late happens often enough that the stations are prepared and actually have these little slips that have the date, and how late the trains were running, so you have a legitimate, official late slip to give to professors or work if you're late because of the trains. Pretty cool. My prof marked me present anyway, so I got to keep the slip. Don't know what I'mma do with it, but it's kinda neat.
Classes today were also kinda dull. I had planned on taking a bunch of pictures of campus today, since I haven't done so yet. Unfortunately, it was raining and gross all day, so any picture I tried to take ended up pretty dull. So, maybe after Golden week.
Speaking of Golden week, I suppose I'll write a little bit about that. Golden week is the longest official, national holiday in Japan. It includes such important days as Showa day (to celebrate the birthday of the Showa Emperor), Constitution Day (commemorating the new post war constitution), and Children's Day (well, boy's day at least. Girls day is actually in early march). Because these days take up most of a week anyway, most companies and schools will create arbitrary other holidays to end up giving the entire week off. That means that I have no school next week at all.
I don't really have plans for Golden week. Travel is usually especially expensive at that time, so going anywhere and staying anywhere is more expensive. I'm hopefully going to be able to go to a few museums, aquariums, and various temples and shrines in the Tokyo area. That's the plan at least. Since this is peoples' travel/adventure time, I figured most people won't be visiting the more "boring" places like those. I guess I'll find out.
I also plan on reading a lot of Harry Potter. I actually cracked it open in my spare time today. I had about three hours between classes, and hanging out with people, so I managed to get through an entire 4 pages! Yeah, I think this may be a little more difficult than I'd imagined. Well, if I read 4 or more pages every day for the rest of the trip, I should be able to finish it before I get back. Maybe. It's a great chance to expand my vocabulary! I actually learned two new things today: First, ずんぐりむっくり, which means very short and stout, like a certain Vernon Dursley. I also learned the kanji and word for "to fly" 飛ばす (tobasu), which, coincidentally, is also used in the word for airplane. The word for airplane, then, is composed by fly-go-machine. Yep. I love Japanese sometimes.
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