It's quite interesting, really, especially at a small one like mine. There are only two courses of study: Architecture and Machinery. They throw in a couple of classes like Japanese and English, shake well, and hope the third years don't get fried at their job interviews ( Read more... )

( It Happens. )

I am in desperate need of some new reading material. I've found a website which offers a $2 flat shipping rate in Japan, and want to take as much advantage of this as possible.

rheia78, I will definitely order "World War Z" if possible. You have me intrigued. silvershinigami, I shall be checking out "Water for Elephants," as well ( Read more... )

I have been facing many different issues here: learning to drive the Japanese way, trying to find vegetarian food, and now... toiletry issues. (Japan's sad lack of shaving cream, to be specific ( Read more... )

So, a fact which some of you may be well acquainted with is... I have a terrible sense of direction. This is magnified to a pitiful degree in a country which, largely, doesn't believe in street names. People also seem to assume that I know where things like Route 60 are, or which way I should turn on Route 10 to get to such-and-such a place, even ( Read more... )

Thanks to Japanese clients of my mother's, I now know that learning Kagoshima-ben effectively means that I'm learning the old anarchist language of Japan.

I am so dorkily happy.

Thanks to a brief lecture by a Japanese professor, I now know that in the olden days, the people of Kagoshima were rebels without a cause. They were so far away from Edo ( Read more... )

( Huzzah. )

( Much delayed due to a pseudo-business trip. )

Just had to share how very "kawaii" (cute) it is, even if it lacks functions such as... English menus. It's all good, I'll just learn that crazy kanji thing. Hey, I've already got "infrared" down. (They really should teach us these things in school, I think... I would've found a guide to cell phone kanji much more useful than learning to read mini- ( Read more... )

The thing I bought that I thought was sugar? It was salt.