Report for the day

It's Friday and what do I have planned for myself? NOTHING!

Well, basically I am a homebody! Just give me internet and I'm fine. I'm still using the internet that I'm stealing but I am also using the university one in the 1st floor.

I officially ended a full week of language classes.

Tanaka-sensei and Fukuoka-sensei teach Grammar
Ishiguro-sensei teaches Composition, Kanji & Terminology and Reading
Tsuruta-sensei teaches Conversation
Iori-sensei teaches Reading
Yokota-sensei teaches Cross-Cultural Seminar

Of all the classes, I really like Fukuoka-sensei's. She really makes the entire class participate and she is always o-genki! Also (although I'm not biased) she is Catholic.

The classes that I have a tough time in is Tsuruta-sensei's conversation, for the main reason that I don't have a large vocabulary.

Iori-sensei is somewhat manageable, but he speaks only in Japanese. I can read with the furigana. But I'm VERY slow.

Ishiguro-sensei's Kanji class is interesting, but he also speaks in Japanese and the terms he introduced for today are mainly economics terms. I don't blame him, since out of the7 students, I am the only one in History, all of them are in commerce and economics. Oh well.

Nakagawa-sensei is an optional class. She teaches oral communication. Very sweet and kind lady. I attended her class but decided not to continue it since most of my classmates there are advance-level students. While Li-san (Thai) said it is okay, I'm a bit embarrased to slowing down the class to my level.

Replacing Nakagawa's class, I will ask if I can take Ishiguro-sensei's Support class for the zero-level students. Hopefully I can take it to review.

I also got a Japanese student tutor who will help me with my Japanese. Stupid me forgot her name! I'm soo sorry. But I really have to take advantage of it. She is being paid for this service. About Y1070 an hour. I can meet her for 60 hours for the 6 months of language training. My schedule with her is 1620 - 1800 getsuyoobi (Monday) and 1800 - 1900 mokuyoobi (Thursday). I wanted to meet her twice a week so that I have someone to speak to.

Hmmm...what did I eat nowadays? Usually I eat lunch in the shokudo (cafeteria) in the East campus. The first time I ate, it was at the West Campus. Kaari raisu (curry rice). The second time was a rice topping of ground beef, ginger and shredded egg. I became a bit uncreative nowadays since the shokudo is packed with students and we only have a 55 minute lunch break. Chikkin suteki (chicken steak), meron pan (melon bread *see yakitate! Japan). I told friends and family I really would've wanted to try ramen, but I also eat instant ones for dinner.

Stupid me this lunch. We decided to eat out at BLDY (I found it funny because their menu cover is BLDY Menu *I read it as bloody menu). I ordered their set meal of hamburger and ebi suteki (steak) with sarada (salad) and suupu (soup). I forgot it was Good Friday!!! So I paid Y609 for only half a meal! oh well!

Tomorrow, I plan to walk to Tachigawa / Tachigaya (I don't know which one exactly) to check out shopping there.