freshman camp!
Today I went into the city to help out at this event called Freshman Camp. I think it's mandatory for all freshmen at NUFS, but it's not the go-outside-and-have-a-shitty-time "camp" you might think of when hearing the event title. Instead, it took place in the dining room of a gorgeous hotel in Yagoto and began around 11am or so. This place had an equally pretty buffet with high quality food and plenty of adorable desserts (*o*) I was assigned to a table with one of the teachers in the Japanese program (I'd never met her until today, which is a shame because if she'd ever been one of my teachers I would have loved it!) and what we had to do was stay at our table and just talk to the freshmen about classes and whatnot. I was so nervous, but immediately upon sitting down, the girl next to me, Yuko, began chatting it up. Within five minutes we were exchanging numbers, and within ten minutes we were taking pictures together and she was inviting me back to her house. I had loads of fun just chatting with Yuko and her friend Saki, as well as the other teacher at my table, and the other two transfer students (Chinese/Korean students who come here for more than one year). We ate lots of great food and stuffed ourselves silly on dessert. When I went back to get some coffee, I was called out to in English by three Japanese boys sitting on the nearby sofas. They greeted me, and then one shouted, "You are very beautiful!!!"
Anybody who tells you Japanese people are shy CLEARLY haven't been to NUFS.
After everybody had eaten we chatted some more, and then Yuko, Saki, and the two transfer students had to move to other tables. In exchange, we got two slightly quiet girls whom I chatted with about classes, dramas, and celebrity gossip, and two of the boys who had called out to me earlier. I'm pretty sure the moment they sat down was when they asked if I had a boyfriend. LOL. Sorry to disappoint *(^o^)* But we talked about things like club activities, and I told them if they came to the English language lounge they'd find plenty of single foreigners. For the last hour, everyone participated in a quiz game, which involved things like listing as many words you can think of that begin with "j" or "p," for example, and our table got the damn Japanese subject of "List as many yojijukugo that begin with 'ichi' as you can think of." Things like "ichigoichie," "isshoukenmei" and whatnot. We ended up winning that round and made it to the finals, but there was a 4-way tie and in the end we lost with janken. The final prize appeared to be a Kewpie keychain for each member of the winning team - apparently in the past it was things like Wiis and Playstations. (o_o);
I came home ready to fall into bed, which isn't surprising given my state recently. I can't remember the last time I woke up feeling genuinely refreshed, or even like I got a good night's sleep. To make matters worse, my insomnia has decided to flare up again, so even when I want to fall asleep it takes me several hours. This all started to hit me earlier this week. Imagine combining insomnia with narcolepsy. It doesn't work out, right? Instead of cancelling each other out like they should, I begin to drop from the narcolepsy but the insomnia refuses to let my body shut down. It's left me feeling like a zombie, which is what I was referring to in my last post, and I can't get my right eyelid to stop twitching. It's a good thing I don't actively look how I feel, which is like "crazy cat lady" (the hair, specifically) mixed with "junkie" (the everything else). Friday morning I forced myself back to sleep twice after waking up just before 7am, and I'm going to try the same tomorrow morning as well if I have to. What's causing it? Will said it was probably stress from the first week of school, but that's over now. Is it the jishin-yoi, or constantly feeling like the earth is shaking? Wouldn't that eventually rock me to sleep like a baby? =P
This wasn't happening until I spent the month at Will's. I got way too used to that. (=_=) But I've got to fix this, because continuing this pattern of "fake sleep" for the next WEEK, let alone the next three and a half months, is going to make me clinically insane. Saying I can't sleep without him next to me just seems so pathetic, like I can't even do so much as sleep by myself.
Anybody who tells you Japanese people are shy CLEARLY haven't been to NUFS.
After everybody had eaten we chatted some more, and then Yuko, Saki, and the two transfer students had to move to other tables. In exchange, we got two slightly quiet girls whom I chatted with about classes, dramas, and celebrity gossip, and two of the boys who had called out to me earlier. I'm pretty sure the moment they sat down was when they asked if I had a boyfriend. LOL. Sorry to disappoint *(^o^)* But we talked about things like club activities, and I told them if they came to the English language lounge they'd find plenty of single foreigners. For the last hour, everyone participated in a quiz game, which involved things like listing as many words you can think of that begin with "j" or "p," for example, and our table got the damn Japanese subject of "List as many yojijukugo that begin with 'ichi' as you can think of." Things like "ichigoichie," "isshoukenmei" and whatnot. We ended up winning that round and made it to the finals, but there was a 4-way tie and in the end we lost with janken. The final prize appeared to be a Kewpie keychain for each member of the winning team - apparently in the past it was things like Wiis and Playstations. (o_o);
I came home ready to fall into bed, which isn't surprising given my state recently. I can't remember the last time I woke up feeling genuinely refreshed, or even like I got a good night's sleep. To make matters worse, my insomnia has decided to flare up again, so even when I want to fall asleep it takes me several hours. This all started to hit me earlier this week. Imagine combining insomnia with narcolepsy. It doesn't work out, right? Instead of cancelling each other out like they should, I begin to drop from the narcolepsy but the insomnia refuses to let my body shut down. It's left me feeling like a zombie, which is what I was referring to in my last post, and I can't get my right eyelid to stop twitching. It's a good thing I don't actively look how I feel, which is like "crazy cat lady" (the hair, specifically) mixed with "junkie" (the everything else). Friday morning I forced myself back to sleep twice after waking up just before 7am, and I'm going to try the same tomorrow morning as well if I have to. What's causing it? Will said it was probably stress from the first week of school, but that's over now. Is it the jishin-yoi, or constantly feeling like the earth is shaking? Wouldn't that eventually rock me to sleep like a baby? =P
This wasn't happening until I spent the month at Will's. I got way too used to that. (=_=) But I've got to fix this, because continuing this pattern of "fake sleep" for the next WEEK, let alone the next three and a half months, is going to make me clinically insane. Saying I can't sleep without him next to me just seems so pathetic, like I can't even do so much as sleep by myself.