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Ugghh the past few days have been so distressing. It started Friday morning when a friend of mine who went on the Calstate International Program to Japan IMed me asking for permission to pour his heart out about how the program apparently sucked. He had a lot to say, but in short, he didn't enjoy himself because the dorms are crap? Basically, they live in, like, a frathouse, where everybody is dragged out of their rooms at 6AM to go jogging every morning, and all the Japanese guys avoid the few gaijin that end up tossed into the mix. The rent is 70,000 yen a month, and you don't even get your own bathroom or kitchen; instead there's a communal bath. =_= I mean, it's all partly expected I suppose, except oh wait, one of my friends stayed in a dorm in Tokyo last year for 12,000 a month, and had her own bathroom and kitchen. I can't help but think that somebody here is totally getting gipped.
So I've been spending most of my waking hours looking up dorms, apartments, guesthouses... anything that doesn't involve staying with a group of xenophobic jocks without even the luxury of a private shower? I've had Sakura House and Tohto recommended to me, but even their guesthouse rooms average 80,000 a month and don't include a private shower. I mean, I don't necessarily want to be all that picky, but come on, if there are people getting a completely self-sustaining room for a sixth of that, there has to be a better deal. T_T
I'm probably going to ask my grandma in Taiwan to help out since she's fluent in Japanese and has friends in the country, but umm...does anybody have suggestions? :
So I've been spending most of my waking hours looking up dorms, apartments, guesthouses... anything that doesn't involve staying with a group of xenophobic jocks without even the luxury of a private shower? I've had Sakura House and Tohto recommended to me, but even their guesthouse rooms average 80,000 a month and don't include a private shower. I mean, I don't necessarily want to be all that picky, but come on, if there are people getting a completely self-sustaining room for a sixth of that, there has to be a better deal. T_T
I'm probably going to ask my grandma in Taiwan to help out since she's fluent in Japanese and has friends in the country, but umm...does anybody have suggestions? :