Way to not go to baseball :O
... the other day... I don't remember which day... Me, my friend Aya from the youth hostel, her boyfriend and his friend went to Shimokitazawa to chill and then to Nakameguro for the sakura festival. Um, so I want to move to Shimokitazawa now. It's really awesome in a way that is hard to explain... there are all these tiny streets with tiny ridiculous shops that are like ROCKNROLL or RANDOM COLORFUL STUFF actually the best one ever had all these intricate lamps with like circuits or metal cutouts, plus a bunch of household items like that, and like every surface in the store was black and there was a bunch of neon and it was blasting techno. And then right across the street up some stairs was a shop that sold tiny pastel things which were displayed in little wooden shelves on the walls and it was all bright and empty and clean. Also I am fairly certain that it is like the music neighborhood.
Oh man the cafe we went to was also amazing because it was designed by this woman who traveled around the world and wrote a bunch of books. You go through this door (that really doesn't look like a door) and then down some steps into the cafe which has some more steps up to a little enclosed wooden booth and a bunch of bookshelves everywhere and it's really awesome. The food was also good. I had taco rice which was like a taco over some rice NOT AT ALL related to octopus which is what I was expecting (octopus=tako) >:( which continued my eating-out theme of SURPRISE MEAT. But it was still really yummy. Also Aya had some coconut curry which was the best thing ever. If I could make a drooling emoticon I would right now.
NAKAMEGURO. There is a river, I don't know which river, shut up, anyway it is lined with cherry trees and at night they are illuminated and there are a bunch of little stands selling matsuri food like takoyaki or baby castella. Nom nom nom. Ok enough with this food theme.
Today me and Jonmin walked to school together. It was fun. Kind of warm though. WHAT HAPPENED TO SPRING?? Let me give you a time line. 3 weeks ago: freezing. 2 weeks ago: slightly chilly. Spring! BUT THEN the last 3 days: SO WARM I AM SWEATING D: Why is this happening. And now that I've spent at least half of my words today complaining about the heat it's going to snow tomorrow or something. I can feel it.
Anyway the two of us dipped off campus real fast after the general health inspection to go to the city hall and post office. The cherry trees in Sagamihara are still ridiculously pretty -- in fact even more so because now they are in full bloom.
We completed our business (getting some documents and opening postal bank accounts) and went to eat lunch at Denny's. I've never been to a Denny's before but I'm pretty sure it's real different in America. Anyway I ate some vegetable pasta (vegetable-ish. There was like one bite-size chunk each of bamboo shoot, potato, tomato, and carrot and then some chickpeas and a giant puddle of oil)(but the oil was garlic-flavored om nom nom)(OH MY GOD I can't not talk about food)(you'll just have to deal with it) but APPARENTLY they left the words "has bacon!" off the menu. SURPRISE MEAT CONTINUES.
Thus, tonight I made some REAL VEGETABLE PASTA. Slash I really needed to cook my 1/2 zucchini before it went bad. Zucchini is yummy ANYWAY I clearly win the pasta battle. ....with Denny's.
Tomorrow classes start. It is a Friday in Japan too, yes. There is some esoteric class-registration-related reason for this, I suppose.
Let me summarize classes because I like explaining unimportant details of my life.
We need 124 credits to graduate, of which 70 are "required courses," 20 are "electives," and 34 are "free courses" (free does not equal not paying by the way). As I have my schedule set up now I will have 26 credit-hours of electives. Required courses are pretty much automatic; for oil painting majors it is our actual oil painting classes and there is a set time for them. So I pretty much won't have to think about my schedule after this year... maybe... well, I suppose I might take too few free courses? I don't know if that's possible.
OH OH OH I'm going to take Korean because 80% of the exchange students are Korean so I said I would take it as a joke and then I was like "...why not?" because I don't want to take Japanese, English, French, German, Chinese, or Italian. Sorry.
But I am NOT going to try for teacher certification because I HATE CHILDREN. I would feed them lead paint in a week.
BEFORE THAT I bought a cell phone. It's butt-ugly but I can deal with it. Also it was really cheap and the plan is pretty good, plus approximately everyone I know uses Softbank AND it makes mad international calls. Yep.
Oh man the cafe we went to was also amazing because it was designed by this woman who traveled around the world and wrote a bunch of books. You go through this door (that really doesn't look like a door) and then down some steps into the cafe which has some more steps up to a little enclosed wooden booth and a bunch of bookshelves everywhere and it's really awesome. The food was also good. I had taco rice which was like a taco over some rice NOT AT ALL related to octopus which is what I was expecting (octopus=tako) >:( which continued my eating-out theme of SURPRISE MEAT. But it was still really yummy. Also Aya had some coconut curry which was the best thing ever. If I could make a drooling emoticon I would right now.
NAKAMEGURO. There is a river, I don't know which river, shut up, anyway it is lined with cherry trees and at night they are illuminated and there are a bunch of little stands selling matsuri food like takoyaki or baby castella. Nom nom nom. Ok enough with this food theme.
Today me and Jonmin walked to school together. It was fun. Kind of warm though. WHAT HAPPENED TO SPRING?? Let me give you a time line. 3 weeks ago: freezing. 2 weeks ago: slightly chilly. Spring! BUT THEN the last 3 days: SO WARM I AM SWEATING D: Why is this happening. And now that I've spent at least half of my words today complaining about the heat it's going to snow tomorrow or something. I can feel it.
Anyway the two of us dipped off campus real fast after the general health inspection to go to the city hall and post office. The cherry trees in Sagamihara are still ridiculously pretty -- in fact even more so because now they are in full bloom.
We completed our business (getting some documents and opening postal bank accounts) and went to eat lunch at Denny's. I've never been to a Denny's before but I'm pretty sure it's real different in America. Anyway I ate some vegetable pasta (vegetable-ish. There was like one bite-size chunk each of bamboo shoot, potato, tomato, and carrot and then some chickpeas and a giant puddle of oil)(but the oil was garlic-flavored om nom nom)(OH MY GOD I can't not talk about food)(you'll just have to deal with it) but APPARENTLY they left the words "has bacon!" off the menu. SURPRISE MEAT CONTINUES.
Thus, tonight I made some REAL VEGETABLE PASTA. Slash I really needed to cook my 1/2 zucchini before it went bad. Zucchini is yummy ANYWAY I clearly win the pasta battle. ....with Denny's.
Tomorrow classes start. It is a Friday in Japan too, yes. There is some esoteric class-registration-related reason for this, I suppose.
Let me summarize classes because I like explaining unimportant details of my life.
We need 124 credits to graduate, of which 70 are "required courses," 20 are "electives," and 34 are "free courses" (free does not equal not paying by the way). As I have my schedule set up now I will have 26 credit-hours of electives. Required courses are pretty much automatic; for oil painting majors it is our actual oil painting classes and there is a set time for them. So I pretty much won't have to think about my schedule after this year... maybe... well, I suppose I might take too few free courses? I don't know if that's possible.
OH OH OH I'm going to take Korean because 80% of the exchange students are Korean so I said I would take it as a joke and then I was like "...why not?" because I don't want to take Japanese, English, French, German, Chinese, or Italian. Sorry.
But I am NOT going to try for teacher certification because I HATE CHILDREN. I would feed them lead paint in a week.
BEFORE THAT I bought a cell phone. It's butt-ugly but I can deal with it. Also it was really cheap and the plan is pretty good, plus approximately everyone I know uses Softbank AND it makes mad international calls. Yep.