Should have uploaded this post a few weeks ago, but never got around to it....
Well, it’s about time to update the blog again. After this post, I won’t have too much left! 3 months, to be exact. Anyways, I finally have some free time ‘cause I was done with the fall semester since December 19th. I was supposed to take a winter class, but it won’t happen ‘cause I decided to stay in Utah for a month instead of 2 weeks. Furthermore, the snow storm we had on December 19th really screwed up my plans -__________- Moving along to the May!
May…. Was a pretty fun month. It wasn’t too eventful, though. We had a break from the 2nd ‘til the 6th ‘cause of Golden Week (a series of consecutive holidays in Japan). So! Ayumi and I went to Hakone for the weekend preceding Golden Week. We had a lot of fun :D We rode a pirate ship and walked quite a lot. We also saw a really cool shrine. All in all, a very enjoyable trip.
On the 3rd, if I’m not mistaken, Ryohei had a house party at his place in Mejiro. A lot of people came and again, we all had tons of fun. The police showed up at one point because it was a bit loud, but in the end, they went away because we managed to keep it quiet. Oh, I forgot to mention that on the way to Ryohei’s place, I saw that crazy Russian woman again… This time, I saw her on the train. The moment I sat down, I noticed that she sat in the diagonal seat from me. As soon as I noticed her, I stood up and changed to a different carriage. Luckily, she didn’t notice me XD
During this month, I started to hang out more and more with Michiko and her son, Hiroki. I’m pretty surprised that I haven’t mentioned them until this post… Anyways, Michiko used to be one of my students at Maskal. She’s probably one of the most unique and nicest people I met in Japan. She kind of took the rule of being my host mom during my time there. Anyways, we pretty much started to have sushi almost every week in Roppongi Hills in a place called Pintokona (a conveyor belt sushi place). Their sushi was sooooo delicious. Reminiscing about it makes me drool >_< Anyways! On the 23rd, I finally met her husband, Masaki. Masaki is a very nice person. I felt a bit intimidated when I first met him, because I wasn’t sure how to speak to him (formal vs. very formal Japanese). Michiko told me not to be intimidated and just speak with him a relaxed manner. The day I met him, they took me to a really old-fashioned sushiya (sushi place) in Roppongi. Michiko kept on saying that Arnold Schwarzenegger ate there and that I must eat there, too. The sushi was amazing. The otoro (fatty tuna) tasted like meat. I’ll be honest, though. I prefer Pintokona’s simple rolls.
For some reason, I can’t really recall anything else that happened. I guess I was right about May being not so eventful…. If I do remember anything, I will sure to add it. I’ll try and write about June as soon as I can as I have a lot of time off this month!
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April 2009
Since I have some time and since it’s been quite a while (again), it’s finally time to update the blog! I know, crazy, isn’t it? :) No worries, though. As I said before, I do plan on finishing it. So… On to April!
April…. Wasn’t as eventful as March. Well, school was back in session. The first “major” thing that took place was the placement test at AGU. We had to take it again. Frankly, there was no point for us (the people from the past semester) to take it, because in the end, we were bumped a level. I actually did ok XD Considering the fact that I haven’t studied at all for it XD I think that I got 158/200. Anyways…. The second “major” event was the Seder (Passover dinner). It took place in the Hilton Tokyo hotel. The dinner was a bit expensive (¥8,000 ~ $80), but since I was a student, I paid ¥6,000 ~ $60. When I got to the ballroom where the dinner took place, the Rabbi was shocked to see me XD I have been “out” of Chabad for a few months and he thought that I already left Japan. After kinda-sorta catching up with him, we proceeded to praying and then to dinner. The dinner was great. It was a full course meal. It’s been a while since I ate chicken, so it was very satisfying. Oh, also, at dinner, I got to see Sarah, a girl that I met in Korea’s Chabad. I also met Samantha, a girl from Australia who was studying at Waseda at that time. After dinner was over, it was then that I decided to go to Chabad every Friday night, ‘cause it is located in the same station where I worked, and since services took place right after my job was over, hey, I thought, why not? I didn’t attend the second Seder, though. I celebrate it the “Israeli way.” :D
So the following week was pretty much hellish ‘cause I had worse food restriction. During Passover, I couldn’t eat bread or anything wheat. Also, I technically couldn’t eat rice. So…. I had to deal with matzos, which is kind of “cracker bread.” It wasn’t really a cracker. Well, I guess you can call it that. Anyways, my mom sent me some from the states and luckily, they arrived the next day with a few more goodies. So, I was able to survive XD At one instance, though, I snapped at Justin (my roommate), ‘cause of something really stupid…. The lack of food kinda triggered it…. I apologized to him after that.
The day before I went back to school (Sunday, April 12th), we had a spring excursion with school. We went to pick strawberries and had lunch at Chiba. The excursion was a lot of fun, albeit I couldn’t really eat anything except for the strawberries. I don’t think that I’ve ever had that many strawberries as I did on that day in my life O_O They were very, very delicious, especially because of the condensed milk sauce. Ahhhh… Just thinking about those strawberries make me hungry…. After we were done with picking strawberries, we went to eat lunch. I just ate some vegetables. Couldn’t really eat anything else -_- So… We got back at about 4-5, I think… And then, I remember that I had a lesson or two. Actually, yeah, two lessons. I was pretty much starving that day XD
Hmmmm…..What else…. Well, my private lessons finally started to pick up! I started having more and more lessons :) I was really relieved, ‘cause I was actually less and less worried about money and I was able to eat out more and have more fun memories with my friends!
On the 18th of April, Eleanor came over from Korea, so she stayed at our place. She stayed until the 22nd or 23rd, can’t remember….. Anyways, I took her to the same places I took Melissa to and she had tons of fun! It was really nice having her. I showed her Aoyama, too, and she met some of my friends. Oh, she also cooked fried rice for us with tuna! Umakatttttttttttttttttttttttta!!!!! (It was delicious!).
I had a few days off before classes started (April 11th). Since I didn’t have any classes that day, which was a Saturday, my classes technically started on Monday. So yeah, classes started again, and I had very interesting teachers, to say the least XD My listening class in Japanese was ridiculous…. There were a lot of words in some of listening comprehensions that I’ve never heard of in my life… So… In the beginning, it was pretty difficult XD Other classes were ok. I was planning on taking 14 credits, but I decided to drop one class (financial institutions? Or something like that). I had been pretty busy with other things, so I couldn’t take it in the end. Actually, I think that I dropped it in May. Yes, it was May when I decided to drop the class. Other classes that I took -> this time, I was able to take the 4 classes of Japanese, art, Japanology, and Nihon Jijyou. That’s it! So my schedule was quite relaxing.
I think that that’s it for April…. May was a bit more eventful? Well, I think it was as eventful as April XD Anyways, I’ll try and update soon~ I have 2 more weeks before finals start, so I won’t be able to update until the later part of December. But! I will definitely do so! XD
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