Hello again! Here's my school ID and Alien Registration card. I just got the Alien card yesterday.
Since my last blog a couple notable things have happened. The first is that I got my hair cut at a beauty school for free! It was really high tech. For example the chair I was in was fully motorized for all the lifting, reclining, legrest and stuff, it had electrical outlets, seat warmer, and more. They first shampooed and conditioned my hair, cut it, shampooed and conditioned again, gave me a scalp, neck, ear, and shoulder massage, then finally shaved me. I was in the chair for two hours but it was worth it.
Another big thing is that I caught that cockroach! I saw him in the kitchen and threw a trap at him. He cringed as it approached him, hid behind a counter, then within a minute he entered the trap being that he was attracted to the smell of the bait inside. Want to see what he looked like before I terminated him?
Monday was a national holiday and I was taken out to dinner by Miho's family at a soba noodle restaurant. I ate duck, sushi, soba, and tempura. It was so good. I cook a lot at home though and am starting to like it a lot. Something I noticed though is that if you don't wash your pans good enough your fried rice will taste like French Toast.
Oh ya, I am brewing up some awesome ideas for my Halloween costume this year and have a bunch of events I will hopefully attend. here is one of them: http://lacittadella.co.jp/halloween/
I have been here one whole month!
Well, it has bee a while since I last blogged to let me try to catch up. The week following the weekend of baseball I just got my stuff together. Stuff like shopping for stuff I need around the apartment, registering for the National Health Insurance, and more. I also signed up for classes, attended some welcome parties hosted by the school, and finally started school this passed Monday.
I have really scored when it comes to getting appliances and stuff for my apartment. I have been on Craigslist searching the classifieds and so far have gotten a free rice cooker and small electric oven (both bought in January). I got those from a girl moving out of an $8000 a month apartment.
On Thursday the 27th I went on a day trip to the mountains to the west. The first stop was this nice little town that used to be a rest stop for people making treks on foot and by horse a long time ago. Therefore there are lots of old hotels. Here are a few pictures:
Waiting for the bus in Tokyo:
The town:
Then we went to a famous castle. This castle is older than the USA and was primarily used back when samurai ran Japan:
I took some pictures of Tokyo at night after I got back to town:
School has been great so far. I love living so near the campus. It is a very cool environment. College life here is a little more group-oriented so you are less on your own. I like it so far, especially my Japanese classes.
Some minor, random notes from the last couple weeks: my Ikea bed is already broken, there was a mouse-sized cockroach in my bedroom and I didn't catch him, the Chinese girl living in the other bedroom moved out and a Swedish girl is moving in, I cooked lotus root for the first time in my life, I met someone from New Guinea for the first time in my life.
I can't think of anything else at the moment. Hope all is well wherever you are. Ren
