'The Great Wave'

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Een Rasha, Ai voz vizzisizt. Een America, Ai em Janitor.

 The above quote was in an attempt at a Russian accent (can't remember what that type of writing is called, theatre people, help me out). I think it's a very fitting quote for today. I spent most of my time relatively sane-seeming, but the problem came at the end of the day. This campus is huge, and I forgot how to get to the place where I was meant to meet Haruna. Remember, O my brothers, that today was the last day of the trip, which meant I was carrying three bags and an umbrella with me at the time, wandering around a huge building, looking for the exit. When I finally found the exit, some teacher was blocking my way. She would NOT let me get out without finding out first who my host sister was, and where I was trying to go (apparently sick bay doesn't make sense here). I looked like such a tourist walking around with the random teacher helping me. I finally found the place I wanted, at which point I realized that I wasn't sure if it counted as a place you're meant to put on your outdoor shoes or not... I chose the former and found I was wrong when I saw 'that's not what you're supposed to do' looks on my host sister and her friend's face, so had to stumble to get my right shoes on while trying not to think about how clunky I am ><

Apart from that, it was a good day ^^

I spent most of it in a windowless interview room with Sarah. That is the place that I will be practicing my Japanese in. Two hours a day. No light. Literally. I felt happier about it, though, when I got my Japanese workbook and saw a note from the previous user ^^ Thank you previous person (if you're reading, which you may or may not be...)

We got our schedules today (still two periods of PE a week :( ) and did other orientation stuff. I made Japanese conversation too ^^ It's made less spectacular by the fact that the whole basis of the conversation was poking fun at the suggested 'get to know your host sister' questions in the tour diary. It makes it a lot easier to speak Japanese at least.

I went to Harajuku on Sunday and Disneyland on Monday. Harajuku was... disappointing... It wasn't that interesting in the end for me. I think I hyped it up too much in my head first.

On the other hand, I was pleasantly surprised at racist bastard land. The rides were fun and there was cool Alice in Wonderland stuff. I bought too much though. Not regretting the purchases yet... yet... Especially not regretting the ID holder purchase... It squeaks ^^ :D


That's all I'll write for today cos I feel sick now... Hope I don't cough and splutter my way through my first day.

2 comments:

  1. "Rascist bastard land"? "The rides were were fun"? What is up with that?

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  2. Disney was a racist bastard, Disneyland... Racist Bastard Land ^^

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