I just started an account at Tsutaya, which appears to be the Blockbuster of Japan. It wasn't terribly easy either...imagine someone trying to explain to you the mumbo-jumbo of starting an account anywhere, but in a language that, although you've been studying it for a couple years, you are no where near good enough at to be able to understand ( Read more... )

This weekend was a lot of fun - and very expensive...today, Monday, was a national holiday so we had a three day weekend. The students from the SICE program in Morioka visisted Kyoto and Tokyo, so I got to hang out with Grant and the rest of them ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm giving up watching anything other than variety and cooking shows...everything else is too depressing to watch.

It is the soft and juicy handmade hamburg Steak
which shut up the taste of beef
Since you place an order,
it is the hamburg Steak of the boast roasted carefully.
The dish which put and made the heart
- the time of one [ pleasant at Vicky's ] - pleasing.

Wednesday seems to be Waseda's relax/get shit done day since most people don't have classes at all. I unfortunately have class at 10:40, so I have to get up at like 8:30 anyway ( Read more... )

I had the remainder of my classes today. One of my professors, Katalin Ferber, appears to be completely insane. Or at least not far from it. Really she's just a very sarcastic and animated person and the fact that she has a very heavy Hungarian accent makes it even better. I'm looking forward to her class ( Read more... )

Today was the first day of classes for the exchange students at Waseda. I had my Japanese class at 9:00 and to start the fresh school year off we had three exciting tests. The first was a kanji test in which we were given a list of about 50 kanji and we had to write the readings down...I think I got like 15 at most. The second test was more ( Read more... )

Woot for Tower Records in Japan. I was able to find the live versions of all of Bjork's albums, except for Medulla...which I doubt there is one yet. So I decided to get three western cds, rather than one Advent Children dvd and spent just about the same amount of money. Prices are so strange here sometimes. A single costs about 1800en, but an ( Read more... )

Checked out Shibuya today. Seemed like a kinda interesting place. I'm sure it's much more interesting if you actually have somewhere in mind to go or if you've heard of a cool place. Classes don't start until Friday, so I'm trying to see as much of the city as I can while I have no homework whatsoever ( Read more... )

If you're ever in Shinjuku, or any big city area most likely, don't sit down at a restaurant/yakitori stand unless you really intend to get something there. I went with a couple friends today to Shinjuku and they wanted something to eat, but I wasn't really that hungry. So I decided I would just have something to drink while they ate at this tiny ( Read more... )