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Oh wow, I actually didn't say anything useful for an entire week. What is this being busy shit.
My recollection of days is very sporadic, since pretty much every day is the same:
a. Wake up around 6 to actually become conscious, check apartment related email, avoid the sink rush in the morning
b. Eat breakfast
c. Leave the house between 7:30 and 7:40 (we've been getting later and later and while we're not actually late to class it still annoys me to have to book it up the giant ass hill)
d. Ride the bus for 20-30 minutes
e. Ride the tram for 7 minutes
f. Get up the damn hill
g. Class from 9-12:15
h. Lunch or something
i. THE AFTERNOON
j. Do the whole transportation thing in reverse to get home around 5-6
k. Eat dinner, shower, find the anime on TV when we're not watching game shows (my housemate is not a fan of anime)
l. Homework until I pass out, usually around 9:30 or 10
Anyway, over the weekend I called both my parents and my friends. I stressed out at my parents for a bit, and they're helping me out with the apartment application. I feel really bad since seriously, I'm a big girl and I can take care of this, but I can't fill out the application on my computer, I don't have a scanner, I obviously didn't bring my checkbook to Japan, and I don't have any money. I'm annoyed because if I'd known I still wasn't going to have financial aid, I would have just applied for an apartment with my parents back in April.
Apparently everyone ever is coming to visit me for my birthday, which is great, but ugh. Are they all staying in my apartment? I don't mind, since I'll definitely have the space (and if I end up with Jen and Gameli's old bed, then I'll definitely have the accommodations), but my birthday is on the first day of classes, and I know there's going to be some god-awful Japanese assignment that night. Also I like routine, and I want to be able to fall into a routine quickly to get myself on the right track (which I will obviously fall off of quickly, but that's not the point).
Looks like I won't be coming down for Dragon Con, aznramaster. My aunt and brother are planning on staying through Labor Day weekend, and wanted to take a trip somewhere (Williamsburg, I think). So if you want to come up for that weekend and go to exciting historical places with us, feel free. I don't get Labor Day off, though, so we'd be leaving Durham like, late Friday afternoon.
aznramaster and stardarkangel and co. were having fun at AX ): I was jealous. Apparently there was some pretty epic fail which made me lol. But there was epic awesomeness, and according to Alex I have to thank Will a million times over because somehow (I'm unclear on the details) between the two of them another signature was added to my KKM fanbook! *squee* My new dream is to have a complete set of signatures in that fanbook. It's not going to happen, like, ever (because there are too many characters and I can't tell the difference between female voice actors), but I can dream.
I don't know what was up with me over the weekend, but I felt kind of icky so I actually did all my homework and went shopping. The Uniqlo is right next to the Book Off, so I bought myself new pajamas (gd I hate laundry here) and a new shirt (which I've already had to wear). I stopped in Book Off but couldn't remember the publishers for what I was looking for, so I gave up. I feel like I should stop being so damn lazy and just read the manga in Japanese, but argh. I'm already doing a translation project, I don't want to have to do another one. I also bought stuff at the Mega Don Quixote because. Well. I needed clothes like bad.
On Saturday Laura and I actually did go to the Trappistine Convent and took pictures of the outside, and while we were there ran into another student and friends of her host family.
This week was ugh awful. We had to give our speeches, have an independent study project meeting, and take our semester exam. ): Yesterday before the test Okuno-sensei asked us who we thought had won, and someone said, "One of the boys." Now, okay, the boys definitely did have better delivery, but some of the girls had very good content and all of the boys honestly said about the same thing. This statement made me feel awkward, because... well, why one of the boys? Then it turns out that the top students in the class were all of the boys. I'm not entirely sure why this makes me feel so awkward, but it does. Sort of like how every time a speech has to be given for us in front of other people (the opening ceremony, our group trip, the elementary school) it's always given by a white man. Once a white woman. The pictures in the newspaper of the white people I get, but when it's HIF selecting? It just feels weird.
So anyway the exam is over and I'm just relieved. And kind of exhausted.
After the exam we went to lunch, then went to the warehouses for cake and shopping. I ended up getting a windchime for my window at the department store - my reward for... surviving, I guess.
Also I said I'd go to the elementary school on Monday so I need to remember to actually do that, and get indoor shoes while I'm at it. My family doesn't use them, so I might have to hop over to the 100円 store over the weekend.
Last night I had the house to myself and I was able to watch part of the Pokemon Diamond/Pearl movie, as well as find Animax on the cable so I watched Reborn!. HNGH Yamamoto and Gokudera are hotter in the manga, but they have hot voices in the anime. I wanted to watch FMA but it doesn't come on until 10PM which is well after my host family gets home from work. Also apparently there was no new episode of Naruto this week? Which sucks because I wanted more Naruto-daddy ):
My recollection of days is very sporadic, since pretty much every day is the same:
a. Wake up around 6 to actually become conscious, check apartment related email, avoid the sink rush in the morning
b. Eat breakfast
c. Leave the house between 7:30 and 7:40 (we've been getting later and later and while we're not actually late to class it still annoys me to have to book it up the giant ass hill)
d. Ride the bus for 20-30 minutes
e. Ride the tram for 7 minutes
f. Get up the damn hill
g. Class from 9-12:15
h. Lunch or something
i. THE AFTERNOON
j. Do the whole transportation thing in reverse to get home around 5-6
k. Eat dinner, shower, find the anime on TV when we're not watching game shows (my housemate is not a fan of anime)
l. Homework until I pass out, usually around 9:30 or 10
Anyway, over the weekend I called both my parents and my friends. I stressed out at my parents for a bit, and they're helping me out with the apartment application. I feel really bad since seriously, I'm a big girl and I can take care of this, but I can't fill out the application on my computer, I don't have a scanner, I obviously didn't bring my checkbook to Japan, and I don't have any money. I'm annoyed because if I'd known I still wasn't going to have financial aid, I would have just applied for an apartment with my parents back in April.
Apparently everyone ever is coming to visit me for my birthday, which is great, but ugh. Are they all staying in my apartment? I don't mind, since I'll definitely have the space (and if I end up with Jen and Gameli's old bed, then I'll definitely have the accommodations), but my birthday is on the first day of classes, and I know there's going to be some god-awful Japanese assignment that night. Also I like routine, and I want to be able to fall into a routine quickly to get myself on the right track (which I will obviously fall off of quickly, but that's not the point).
Looks like I won't be coming down for Dragon Con, aznramaster. My aunt and brother are planning on staying through Labor Day weekend, and wanted to take a trip somewhere (Williamsburg, I think). So if you want to come up for that weekend and go to exciting historical places with us, feel free. I don't get Labor Day off, though, so we'd be leaving Durham like, late Friday afternoon.
aznramaster and stardarkangel and co. were having fun at AX ): I was jealous. Apparently there was some pretty epic fail which made me lol. But there was epic awesomeness, and according to Alex I have to thank Will a million times over because somehow (I'm unclear on the details) between the two of them another signature was added to my KKM fanbook! *squee* My new dream is to have a complete set of signatures in that fanbook. It's not going to happen, like, ever (because there are too many characters and I can't tell the difference between female voice actors), but I can dream.
I don't know what was up with me over the weekend, but I felt kind of icky so I actually did all my homework and went shopping. The Uniqlo is right next to the Book Off, so I bought myself new pajamas (gd I hate laundry here) and a new shirt (which I've already had to wear). I stopped in Book Off but couldn't remember the publishers for what I was looking for, so I gave up. I feel like I should stop being so damn lazy and just read the manga in Japanese, but argh. I'm already doing a translation project, I don't want to have to do another one. I also bought stuff at the Mega Don Quixote because. Well. I needed clothes like bad.
On Saturday Laura and I actually did go to the Trappistine Convent and took pictures of the outside, and while we were there ran into another student and friends of her host family.
This week was ugh awful. We had to give our speeches, have an independent study project meeting, and take our semester exam. ): Yesterday before the test Okuno-sensei asked us who we thought had won, and someone said, "One of the boys." Now, okay, the boys definitely did have better delivery, but some of the girls had very good content and all of the boys honestly said about the same thing. This statement made me feel awkward, because... well, why one of the boys? Then it turns out that the top students in the class were all of the boys. I'm not entirely sure why this makes me feel so awkward, but it does. Sort of like how every time a speech has to be given for us in front of other people (the opening ceremony, our group trip, the elementary school) it's always given by a white man. Once a white woman. The pictures in the newspaper of the white people I get, but when it's HIF selecting? It just feels weird.
So anyway the exam is over and I'm just relieved. And kind of exhausted.
After the exam we went to lunch, then went to the warehouses for cake and shopping. I ended up getting a windchime for my window at the department store - my reward for... surviving, I guess.
Also I said I'd go to the elementary school on Monday so I need to remember to actually do that, and get indoor shoes while I'm at it. My family doesn't use them, so I might have to hop over to the 100円 store over the weekend.
Last night I had the house to myself and I was able to watch part of the Pokemon Diamond/Pearl movie, as well as find Animax on the cable so I watched Reborn!. HNGH Yamamoto and Gokudera are hotter in the manga, but they have hot voices in the anime. I wanted to watch FMA but it doesn't come on until 10PM which is well after my host family gets home from work. Also apparently there was no new episode of Naruto this week? Which sucks because I wanted more Naruto-daddy ):