I have found a wonderful place near where I live that sells used CDs for five hundred yen or less. This is fantastic, especially considering that new CDs usually cost at least three thousand around here. And I do like quite a bit of Japan's music. I'm just wishing I could pick up the artist's name or the song title every now and then so I could ( Read more... )

Whoo! We won! Go Japan!

Well, I missed the Superbowl, but I've managed to get rather wound up in Japan's version of it. The soccer World Cup qualifiers are on right now, Nippon vs. North Korea. I am learning all sorts of useful vocabulary thanks to my host father's constant shouting at the television. It's very entertaining ( Read more... )

No sweet food for Lent. Except ice cream, because ice cream is way too expensive for me to buy every day, but if I go out sometime I'm not completely barred from snack food. Yes ( Read more... )

I went to the Setsubun festival on Thursday. It was quite a bit of fun. Setsubun is the day when, according to the old lunar calendar, winter ends. So technically it is Spring now, though I am wearing wool socks and a fleece jacket over a sweater and still freezing my ass off. However, that is beside the point ( Read more... )

Sometimes I really, really hate myself. Not so much for what my own stupidity does to me, but because I let other people down and make them upset.

Actually, after fiddling with lots of numbers that now completely cram the pages of my planner with green sparkly pen, I have found that all hope is not lost. Providing one can be put on probation for this scholarship, which I think is the policy though I cannot be sure seeing as I don't have the paper that tells me all the ins and outs of the ( Read more... )

Whee, that's it. Won't have my Croft Scholarship anymore.

( Hah, I didn't get enough sleep last night. )

( the survey thing )