The past few days, if I have not been in school, eating, or sleeping I have been studying for 4 tests I had today. The following is the list ( Read more... )

 So after my class was done for the day I decide to go to a Cat Cafe Calico (I will explain what that is later.) There is an area in the Shinjuku are called Kabukicho. Think of it as as Vegas with a mix of a "bad area" of any major metropolitan city. So i thought the cafe was a lot closer to the station. After walking around the block  for about 30 ( Read more... )

I have been meaning ( Read more... )

I woke-up this morning and thought it was way too early to get up. Then I heard  the children and knew it was later than I thought it was. Still had not opened my eyes, so I didn't know what time it was. Then I heard a differnt sound like a pitter-patter, and decided to get up and look out my window. To my eyes it was raining. Thank you weather. At ( Read more... )

So this weekend I was the typical American otaku and went shopping in the best of the best and a normal price-range, rather than designer names. Saturday I planned on going shopping in Shibuya, Harajuku, and Shinjuku. Didn't make it that far. I go through the famous 109 in Shibuya, as well as a couple of the music stores. I have a new definition to ( Read more... )

It is true... they are starting to make better sense. I am also thankful that my Swedish housemate has been patient enough to clarify things one in awhile. But he made a good point of saying that Asian school teach differently than Western schools (Europe and the Americas.) in short Asians learn to take things taught at face value, while the ( Read more... )

Here are the events of my train ride home ( Read more... )

 So glad it's the weekend. Japanese language school is exhausting. Yesterday (Friday) when I was done with the class, one of the office ladies asked me why I did not know certain things after a year. I simply replied, because was not taught it. Here is the best example I can give... the "counters." For counting people it's one way, for counting ( Read more... )

It‘s about 12:45 pm. Just finished with my first my first make-up lesson. Wasn`t too bad, but still not fun. Haven`t had my real class yet... not looking forward too it at the yet... not at the moment.

Thank goodness was yesterday was relaxing... the family and myself went to an onsen... a traditional hot spring. It was near Mt. Fuji. It was a ( Read more... )

 Thank goodness my level  check is over. So the result was that I am in the beginning section. The only bad thing is that I have to take a few make-up lessons to catch with the material that the class has already gone over. i expected something like that to happen. I am soo happy that they didn't turn me away. There was another guy there from Los ( Read more... )