Caught Up Again

After a week of classes I finally got everything caught up again. It is a real hassle to do this stuff every day... It is even worse when I slack off for a week... But it is all here again. And yes, my parents were in Japan last week. I put off posting it on here because of personal issues which will not be explained any further. In any case, I did a terrible job of keeping a journal after the first couple of days. Since it has been a week already, I have forgotten a lot of the details. See? This is why I am keeping a journal in the first place! I took what I could remember and threw together an outline of each day. If I remember any more important details (which is unlikely at this point) I will update the outlines. I will not be fleshing these out, so if my mother or father would like to do this, go for it.

Yesterday I went to my Anthro class and watched a movie. We spent almost 2 hours watching a documentary of a guy's first time journey to Tokyo. It was a little interesting, but a lot bland. He edited the video so that every 10 minutes or so he would change locals. This is fine, except that his philosophy for filming is 1: not panning the camera and 2: leaving the camera running all the time. There were long clips of people playing pachinko or golf with no dialogue. After the thing was over we spent the rest of the class discussing it. I ended up eating at a Korean restaurant down the street with my friend Hayato. It was good.

I had no class the rest of the day so I figured I should continue reading that book for anthro. I went to the library and got half-way through it before getting tired and switching to Japanese homework.

Once I finished it was already 5pm so I figured I would go play some Go again. Apparently on Wednesday everyone shows up, so there were 30-some people there. Needless to say I got a lot of practice in. Afterwards we went out to dinner at a nearby cheap Italian place. I ended up getting home around midnight.

Today I had a presentation in Japanese class. I left the house at 7:30 to prepare for it, but my partner John and I ended up slacking off for half an hour instead. Our speech about Taiko Matsuri was alright... Well nobody elses was any better. Let's just leave it at that...

It took a while, but I eventually met up with Erika for lunch. I first met her at a party in December and have hardly talked since. We had a lot of catching up to do. Three of her friends Asuka, Tomoko, and a name I forget joined us in the park for lunch. I found out that a group of 4 other Japanese is a good number. I could grasp the conversation and put my own comments in as well. Today was a good day for speaking.

I was late for my next class. Sakurai sensei is still the coolest ever, although today he used a ton of kanji. It was fine in the beginning, but near the end I was completely lost.

Then I went back to the park and relaxed for a bit. I did my Japanese homework outside. Nature is good for doing homework... Except for the sun. Afterwards I met with Daniel and Michael in the lounge because I did not want to go home. We talked until they had class. Finally I ran into Steve outside and he told me that the best place to get tickets was in the co-op.

Speaking of which, I decided to go to Kyoto this weekend.

I went to the co-op and after a bit of conversation with the person behind the counter, I was the new owner of a brand new bus ticket to Kyoto and back. Also, if you use the student discount on bus tickets you can upgrade to first class seats for really cheap.

Along the way home I stopped at a book off and picked up some books. First of all I think I need a round of applause because I finally finished 2 of my series! In the Book Off in Baba, I found the last volume of Yu Yu Hakusho. I also convinced a worker to let me buy half of a wrapped set of books. They like to wrap whole series together and sell them as a big bundle. The problem was that I wanted the rest of Ramna 1/2 and they did not have it... Except in the bundle. He let me pick up the rest of the series from 21 - end. Yay! I also stumbled upon this one called Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. I ran into it when working on the translation for Jump Ultimate Stars and decided it sounded interesting enough for a look.

Now I am packing for Kyoto!

BTW: I just found out that I can change the date and time of each of my posts! This means that I can change all my previous ones so that they are on the correct day! It is pretty useless to do, but if I find myself with a ton of free time, you bet I'll do it!