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Time is rolling down here in Japan. I have six of the nine reports I need to do completed. Unfortunately I still have one 10 page paper left, one ass kissing thanks for the 800 dollars a month and free plane tickets, and one last 5 pager on some topic that I haven't really had the heart to look at yet.

Oh, and I just...
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Man it has been quite some time since I updated. I guess thats because things have been relatively routine. I have met a bunch of new people in the chat lounge and am working very hard at learning more Japanese while I am here. I don't know if I mentioned it yet, but I bought a Sony PSP here with some of my monthly stipend...
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Absinthe. Tried it once, wild night, almost assuredly will never try it again. Luckily everything turned out fine after that crazy night of partying. Rest of the weekend was pretty enjoyable, it was a school festival here so we did all kinds of things with the bunkyo students. Could have been better, but could have been much worse. One thing really bothered me though, but...
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Not too much has happened the past few days I suppose. More classes. Went to the business class for the last time. Our advisor was asking questions in class and the "professor" was answering them from reading from the text. Another question was asked, and he said "It isn't in the text, so I don't know"

That was the final nail in the coffin right...
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Well, the weekend was quite exciting actually, went to nikko in Japan, saw 5+ sacred shrines including the masoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the most influential emperors in ancient Japan. Its almost impossible to explain how it was, but I took lots of pictures. None of which I really know how to upload onto here. I'm thinking of just moving my diary to a...
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Well, I am actually pretty bummed out. It didn't really help that today was pretty uneventful and one of our teachers just read out of the book for 80 minutes for a second time in a row. Supposedly action will be taken this time. This class i got fed up and started asking questions about the topic to see how much he actually knew. To...
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Today is pretty much over at this point, despite it being only 5.27pm. I am not really too inclined to go exploring ie spending money tonight. I went to tea ceremony club which was incredibly complex. Every movement it seems is scripted. everything has a special method of being carried. Unfortunately the person in question wasn't there, which deepens my suspicion that nothing will come...
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Today was uneventful.

Today was a relatively dull day. Satomi came over, and I found out that Hiroko (the girl I mentioned yesterday) tried to e-mail me but it wouldn't send for some reason. She emailed Tyler and he emailed my email address to her once more in an attempt to get through I guess. I hope she is able to, but did not recieve any e-mails from...
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Well, this is my second attempt to update in two days, the first draft of this update was destroyed by an internet interruption, the one time I didn't copy it to make sure it survived. Figures.

Anyway, starting from yesterday again, here goes.

Originally, yesterday's plan was to go shopping in Harajuku with some friends, because I have no fashion sense whatsoever. Anyway, that play...
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Yesterday was pretty fun. Vented my frustration to our program director about our classes, with limited results. Hopefully something will happen. After that we drank our sorrows away for a while and then went dancing in Roppongi for the night. It was cool. No further comment

Katie and Voltaire are no longer active on Suicide Girls? What has this world come to, they were the two reasons I joined.

Anyway... Today was a horribly frustrating day. I realized that my school, St. John's University is robbing me of my money. The education I am getting here in Japan isn't even up to par with a community college in the states. Our...
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