I am so sorry for not updating more, really I am, I am just so busy as you can imagine. I think I will start making posts more often, but making them shorter.
To sum up today. I woke up a bit late, so I got dressed, did not put my hair up in chopsticks, and I skated to the train. I missed the first train because there was no space on it, seriously, it was packed full of people, so much so that I would have had to be crowdsurfing to get on... or I could ride the top of the train like speed... come to think of it that would have been pretty cool.
I got on the next train, I used my gai-jin power to make sure that I was first in line for the next one, and hopped on as fast as possible. I listened to shiny toy guns on my psp on the way there, and noticed an elderly man reading a pornographic magazine in plane sight of everyone... even children. It was very graphic too... for Japan. That was strange.
Arriving at the kamicho station, the "close" station to Yokohama National University, I ran out of the train to beat everyone to the elevator, took the elevator up to the exit, and skated off down the street to school.
However, Down the street is a misnomer. In fact, the YNU campus is on TOP of a frelling hill. Thats right, a hill. Its all up hill skating on the way there, then up a bunch of stairs and a very steep incline to campus. I cant skate the latter part, but if I am dedicated, I can skate the early part. It is however, exhausting to skate instead of walk. When running late however, one has no option but to use wheeled transportation, and I skated my little heart out to campus. I made it JUST in time to class, right as the Sensei started teaching our fourth session of Japanese A. I was sweating balls, but I had made it on time, and my make up was only sort of messed up.
Despite that somewhat happy ending, I was in Japanese class! GAH! Never before has such a cool subject been so disheartening to me. I love the class, but everyone else in the class knows at least hirigana, one of the japanese alphabets, and has some expierence. They should be in Japanese B, but they are either lazy, time conflicted, or failed the placement test. As such, I look like the doofus in class, and it is moving EXTREMELY fast. I have to learn all of Hirigana by this next tuesday, so I have been studying like I have never studied before.
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Oh, and there was a cute new student in class, but I will leave that to your imagination.
Skip forward to lunch. I had three hamburgers, hash browns, a rice ball and I still needed a snack within an hour. NOTHING HERE FILLS ME UP! GAH! Even the hamburgers are very small. I have to keep cup of noodles on hand since they are only a buck each and keep me going in between meals, and they make for a good breakfast.
Forward some more, I got to teach American slang to Japanese, Korean, and French students. I taught them how to say whats up, que pasa, adios, peace out, word up, etc. I also threw in the rock and roll devil horns sign, the surfer shaka sign, the fact that no one in the usa uses the peace sign, and some gang signs. I will have pictures of three really cute korean girls throwing up blood sign on a subway train while smiling their brains out.... awesome.
I also tried NYU brand beer today. It cost the eqivalent of five bucks for one bottle. It seems like it would be very expensive to drink much in this country. I grabed the weis beer, since I perfer lighter beers, but it was really not very good... it tasted sort of... synthetic.
I then went to my Japanese electronic industry class. It is flipping sweet, I could not have asked for a better class.
Then I went home.
I threw a dance party on the subway train to chombi christ music on my psp...
I was the only one dancing.
time for cup of noodles.
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How funny, my school is on top of a hill too! That's why I didn't have you bring my skateboard. It's exhausting, walking to school in the morning.
And I won't say "I told you so" about the hiragana. I even sent you textbooks. But did you listen to me? No...
Don't get too disheartened about Japanese class! I know how you feel. Hirigana and katakana aren't too hard to learn, so study up and you'll be getting the hang of things soon enough! Practice by reading advertisements on the train.
I hope I can visit you soon!
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