IT'S HOT AGAIN

Gyack. The temperature spiked 4 degrees (They measure in celsius here, so that's something like a 40 degree spike fahrenheit. You should probably check my math though.). And they refuse to turn on our air conditioning because we'll waste electricity with it. Isn't Japan supposed to be some sort of crazy hi-tech super center? I thought everything her was run by invisible solar panels! Or nukes, like the vending machines are.

I think being left to my own devices has amplified my self-diagnosed OCD, as the entire time I was in classes today I kept wondering to myself if I left the window open and if I locked the door properly. Every three minutes or so this nagged at my mind and coupled with my lack of a lunch break on mondays and thursdays drove me to a mild insanity.

I forgot to fold the toilet paper into a triangle, didn't I?

I finally know enough people on campus that I run into people walking around. That's always pleasant. I'm still at the disadvantage of not having befriended the entire group of other exchange students due to my arriving late, but I think I'm freinds with the cool ones at least. Yeah, that's right. Suck it people I don't know.

For a university that sets itself up to the ideal of internationality, they sure don't propose a whole lot of..international accomodations. Any of my classes are taught principally on the concept that Japanese students will be taking them and tend to exclude the English students. What does this mean for someone like me? It means that myself, Ryan and Yusuke (I'm including him because he probably speaks better English than I do and he's helping me with my Japanese. Rock on) are sitting there in interpreting class listening to a dialogue in English that we entirely understand and then having to translate it into Japanese (Although my line was good evening. Rawk.)

This had a thought struck me. You always struggle in your foreign language classes to get them to repeat the same line over and over on the listening tests cause you JUST CAN'T GET IT. It never dawned on me that they do this in other classrooms around the world and that we seem JUST AS DUMB WHEN WE DO IT. Although Yusuke admitted that he took a class on how to teach Japanese so it's a lot harder language than he originally thought. So hey, I guess as long as you don't do it in your Spanish classes....

Boku no pakeeji ga arimasen. So I should probably call the post office tomorrow and get my crap from them. Or whatever. I'll make Anh do it. That's what RA's are for.

Also hopefully I'll finally get to go shopping. I'm going to try very hard to find some hamburger meat (ground beef?) to make tacos. If this fails I'm taking a ferry down to okinawa where they have 'merican foods for the military base.

You never know how much you love something until it's gone.

[This is a lie. I have always effing loved tacos.]

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