I wish I could post pictures of the campus, but I still haven't bought a camera. Sorry guys. The campus is lovely and pretty small. There are two main classroom buildings, a cafeteria and shopping complex (bookstore and convenience store), a library, a gym, an administration building, and a building for international education.
*Side note about Japan in general* Japan is full of cute. Walking down the sidewalk along the Main Gate of the university there were pictures set into the sidewalk of different animals--cats, otters, cows, all cute. A lot of the signs and product labels have cute pictures. Hello Kitty is just the beginning.
My first day went smoothly and I got a lot done. I paid my fees, turned in my forms, registered for classes, attended a computer program oreintation that I needed to take before starting my Japanese courses, and I applied to open a savings account at a local Japanese bank. That banking session was amusing as they stressed that you must fill out the forms by writing your name and address exactly as it is in your passport even down to the serifs in the font. Any mistake and you had to fill out a new form. I was one of the few who was able to get it on the first try.
In between sessions I wandered around campus and even down the road a little ways to go with a friend to the 99 yen store. I had lunch at the campus McDonald's because I hadn't found the cafeteria yet. I decided to have chicken nuggets instead of one of the more Japanese options such as an Eel sandwich. As expected, the portion sizes here are much smaller than American sizes. The medium drink was smaller than an American small. I like it that way though. By dinner time I had found the cafeteria. I got some Udon soup and have decided that I don't like Udon noodles. This does not bode well.
It is a 20 minute walk from campus to the seminar houses. I spent most of the day walking around, and the trip to the 99 yen store and back took a little while and since I did all this with my laptop in my bookbag on my back I was very tired and sore by the end of the day, not to mention still jet-lagged. So unfortunately I did not do any socializing or exploring after I got back to the dorm. Instead I wrote my last post and went to bed--sound asleep by 7.
Now I am in the middle of day 2 of orientation which I will write about later--I have to get to another meeting. TTFN!
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Thanks for the update! Glad you're getting around and seeing what's what. I look forward to hearing what classes you got. Have fun!
Love,
Dad
Unagi Mac . . . I love it. They need to put of those on the local McDonald's menus. Eel Mac and Fries. Tasty. Eel is my favorite--truly!
Yeah, that doesn't bode well that you don't like Udon noodles. That would like a Japanese coming to America and not liking apple pie. How about the Saki? Did you try that? :) Keep that to yourself though. Gray and Jill might be listening in.
That's a McEel sandwich...
Sounds like you're doing well, McEel sandiwches and Udon noodles aside. Hurry up with that camera (you're in Japan, home of everything electronic); I want to see some pictures. At some point you have to go to a bonsai garden for me and take lots of pics. ;-)
My bad. I read it incorrectly. It was a shrimp sandwich (ebi) not eel.
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