Japan is still rockin. Classes have started. Business class is boring as hell, but I have no interest in business no matter how you slice it. My Japanese class is good. We had to take a placement test and I ended up in the class with all my other classmates so all is well. Well, one guy was placed in the class below us, and one girl was in the class above buuuut she had a minor freakout the first day and so she's in our class now.
Culture classes start next week and those are the ones I'm really excited about. I think Japanese culture is really fascinating. Plus, it's the more samurai-type stuff that I think a lot of people like about Japan. (I had to re-write that sentence 3 times because it kept coming out in Spanish and Japanese grammatical patterns which meant it said something like 'I think that a lot of people are enchanted with Japan because of about it.' Woo yeah, brain fried. Like such as.) I have a friend that was in Japanese class with me that was all into Japan and samurai and stuff and honestly, he'd be sorely disappointed. Japan has its weird moments but honestly, the gakusei (students) are just like any other student. We like to eat good food, drink good drinks (alcoholic or otherwise), dislike homework, and would rather sleep or hang out with people than be in class. I suppose more differences will become apparent as time goes on (after all, I haven't even been here a week) and I hang out with more nihonjin but right now it's pretty awesome. I'm also ending up with a semi-core group of friends - me, Julianne, Andrew, Lukas, Rachel, and Ashley to some extent (all from Nebraska), Asa, Spenser, John, and Pat from Oregon (Pat is doubly cool cause he studied here in the summer so he knows his way around), and Pete, Jamie, Megan (a displaced American), plus (spelled phoentically cause they have Gaelic names that I can't spell and you couldn't pronounce) Quee-lynn and Goronia from Dublin. Oh, and Ken, who is a displaced Japanese kid who grew up in Toronto. So we're a motley crew to be sure.
There's hanabi (fireworks) that I'm going to with Hiyoshi, a Japanese student who speaks zero English after the Halloween (yes, it's early) party on Saturday. I've also met some other people like Takuya but that night we all went out and it was fun so we ended up talking most of the night. Anyway, that's pretty much it for now. On the weekdays I'll probably end up being in class most of the time so, blah on that.
See you, space cowboy!
Culture classes start next week and those are the ones I'm really excited about. I think Japanese culture is really fascinating. Plus, it's the more samurai-type stuff that I think a lot of people like about Japan. (I had to re-write that sentence 3 times because it kept coming out in Spanish and Japanese grammatical patterns which meant it said something like 'I think that a lot of people are enchanted with Japan because of about it.' Woo yeah, brain fried. Like such as.) I have a friend that was in Japanese class with me that was all into Japan and samurai and stuff and honestly, he'd be sorely disappointed. Japan has its weird moments but honestly, the gakusei (students) are just like any other student. We like to eat good food, drink good drinks (alcoholic or otherwise), dislike homework, and would rather sleep or hang out with people than be in class. I suppose more differences will become apparent as time goes on (after all, I haven't even been here a week) and I hang out with more nihonjin but right now it's pretty awesome. I'm also ending up with a semi-core group of friends - me, Julianne, Andrew, Lukas, Rachel, and Ashley to some extent (all from Nebraska), Asa, Spenser, John, and Pat from Oregon (Pat is doubly cool cause he studied here in the summer so he knows his way around), and Pete, Jamie, Megan (a displaced American), plus (spelled phoentically cause they have Gaelic names that I can't spell and you couldn't pronounce) Quee-lynn and Goronia from Dublin. Oh, and Ken, who is a displaced Japanese kid who grew up in Toronto. So we're a motley crew to be sure.
There's hanabi (fireworks) that I'm going to with Hiyoshi, a Japanese student who speaks zero English after the Halloween (yes, it's early) party on Saturday. I've also met some other people like Takuya but that night we all went out and it was fun so we ended up talking most of the night. Anyway, that's pretty much it for now. On the weekdays I'll probably end up being in class most of the time so, blah on that.
See you, space cowboy!
_kungfoo_:
Pictures! Include wacky Japanese stuff for bonus points.