Found out today that I probably could have gotten internet connection for way cheaper (as in, 50% off) if I did some more research beforehand. Of course, I would have had to apply in Japanese, which I probably can not do, but then again I could have asked for help. For $20 a month, it probably would have been worth it. Oh well ( Read more... )

Well, it is still Silver Week in Japan (one of the two 5 day holidays in Japan) but I have done nothing at all. Mostly because there really isn't anywhere to go (all the other Fulbrighters just moved in or are still in hotels) and traveling alone is not very fun. Wasting away my days like summer, sigh...probably should work on my Japanese more... ( Read more... )

Well, second day of official orientation and while I had already known about most of the stuff, some things (like getting to know Japanese students, how to use a special language learning fund) were useful. It was nice that they brought in two former Fulbrighters to answer our questions (there was one yesterday as well). Thanks to listening to one ( Read more... )

First official day of Fulbright Orientation. Woke up at 6:30 AM (have not done this....in quite a while...hate it). The orientation itself was pretty boring, mostly because I had already heard about most of the stuff. Lots of move in stuff that I already completed. In the afternoon, the other fellows went to the bank to cash their first check. ( Read more... )

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Wow, it has been a while. To be fair, I did not get internet until 2 days ago and it is a pain to blog on a public computer with people waiting for you. Anyways, I guess an update it needed ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like I will be getting internet at my place next Saturday (9/12). It is actually a pretty quick connection in Japan considering that it is about 2 weeks since I applied. Still, not being able to use your own computer for internet is painful, very painful. For one, it is a pain to try to send files and I do not really trust public ( Read more... )

Was horrible. The test was computer-based for the most part but we had 40 sentences to complete by hand at the end. Questions were multiple choice but with the time limit you really had no time to seriously look at the question. Listening part of the exam sucked and I was simply guessing in the end. You literally had 2-3 seconds to look over the ( Read more... )

Hmmm, since Dan commented on (and I agree) that it is hard to follow blogs on blogger when you are used to having a friends page, I will be noting when I update my blog here. One questions though, should I just post a link to blogger or should I just repost the whole entry here?http://dcrono.

So yeah, I have given in and decided to (at least attempt) to blog my Fulbright year in Japan, despite the fact that I used to be quite against blogging every detail of my life (come on, I am simply not that interesting a person). It beats sending mass emails that sometimes get stopped by spam filters. Let us hope that I actually continue blogging ( Read more... )