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Finally got my stupid visa ( Read more... )

So just now, I got back from having dinner with my Core Japanese classmates. It really is such a good group. Everyone gets along really well, despite certain language barriers. I guess we're all sufficiently good enough at at least Japanese to make ourselves understood (to each other. The teachers are another story). We went to a Chinese restaurant ( Read more... )

昨日 we went to see that movie 東京タワー with Jordan. (Just don't ask me about the trains. -__-|||) Movies in Japan are expensive. And for some reason, you have to pick your seats before you get into the theater. I don't know. The movie was about this guy from 九州 who moves to 東京, but it's mostly about him and his mom, who kind of puts him through college ( Read more... )

This Friday, one of my classes gave us homework: a 自己紹介 in the form of a Power Point presentation. Doesn't sound so hard, right? Except that the computers at school, although they have Windows and all the necessary programs, also have them in the Japanese interface. So everyone was trying to help each other figure out how to paste pictures, and ( Read more... )

It was so freaking cold this morning. And I had to ride my bike to the station. I tried to put the hood up on my sweatshirt, but it was so windy it kept falling off. So when I finally got to the bottom of the hill (and the station), my ears were frozen. It felt like I had an ear infection, because they were just generally very painful inside and ( Read more... )

My computer battery's about to run out, so I better make this my last entry for the night ( Read more... )

So we finally got the wireless internet to work here at home! Turned out to be as simple a thing as calling in to get the password to the network. Yes, we should have figured it out long ago. It's a huge relief. Even signing in to LiveJournal is easier, because the option "post an entry" is now in English again~!

And now I can use Photoshop to edit ( Read more... )

Today, we don't really have to go to school. They're just having a lottery for PE classes and office hours. It's up to us to sign up for classes on our own today. Luckily, we've got like the first week of school to decide. And tomorrow's the first day of real class! I should probably practice the way to and from the station today ( Read more... )

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