The Niigata Chronicles

From now on, March 25th will officially be known as: "The Niigata Chronicles"

I finally made it back to Tokyo. This is probably going to be the first blog entries you guys all read, so take note before diving into The Niigata Chronicles. First of all, I am planning to read through each blog entry in the near future (aka. whenever I have free time not studying) and fix errors, insert pictures, and so forth. So if you guys can all wait until I give the signal, in a future blog entry, please do. I promise it will be worth the wait. It will probably be 10+ hours to get all my pictures up and even more time to sort through them all. I wanted to get the blog entries up asap in the case of my computer dieing or something along those lines. Second, because I was so busy in Niigata with work, I have some big gaps in my blog. I don't know if it will be possible to fix (for lack of memory) but I will try. Third, during the middle of my stay I was pretty gung-ho about writing in Japanese, ignore these parts (or try google translate) if you cannot read it. Finally,

So today I finally returned to Tokyo. After getting off the Shinkansen I hauled my luggage all the way through Shinjuku and made it home. I was welcomed by my host mother and father smiling. It is just not the same as the Hirai family! I had a cup of coffee with my host father and a good long talk about Niigata. He had to go to his dance lessons which meant I finally had free time to myself. I ran up to my room and unpacked as much as I could. I did a load of laundry before leaving the house.

Today was the Waseda graduation ceremony, which I would have attended had I been given earlier notice. All of my friends were there, but I was too late for the ceremony. I any case, I aquired the new syllabus of classes in order to select the interesting (or least work required) classes. I was also given a harsh talking to about the independent study which I have so far failed to plan out. No internet access in Niigata may have not been such a good thing.

Next I went shopping. I picked up some hair dye, a cage and soil for my newly bought beetle larva, and various odds and ends that I found useful living in Niigata that I did not already own. Back at the house I had a long dinner with my family. They of course wanted to hear all about Niigata.

After dinner I finished unpacking, moved my beetle into his new home, and got out the hair dye. I still want to go blond! This time the dye was half failure half good. It appears that I need 2 bottles of dye at the moment for my length of hair. The top of my head is the color I want, but the rest of my hair is streaked with blond from combing the dye through. I might pick up another bottle tomorrow and see if I can't get the rest of my hair to change color. And now for the sleep!