So, leading up to this week, I had had 3 blissful weeks of no roommate-ness. It was a nice time, spent in a nice warm room with 2 space heaters, without worrying about people slamming doors and waking me up or having to clean other people’s dishes. I was able to walk around [...]

Well, last night after about 8pm, all of the new people started to slowly trickle into the JCMU building. Hung out with a few of them for a while in the TV room and in the lobby/balcony, though most of them were too exhausted/jet lagged to utter coherent sentences. It was just nice [...]

Its now 2006 here in Japan. The year of the dog (inu). The clock striking midnight isn’t apparently a big deal in Japan, since I was only able to find two television stations that were actually showing a countdown, and neither of them did anything spectacular right at midnight. I miss Dick [...]

JCMU is now a deadzone. Walking through the dark hallways I can’t hear anyone making any noise….I feel like I’m in some horror movie where I’m stuck in this haunted building all alone. A majority of the students have either left for winter vacation back in the US, or have returned to the [...]

Here’s the scene: Cassidy and I are sitting on my bed, watching my R2 DVD of Howl’s Moving Castle. My apartment is trashed because I’ve been cleaning EVERYTHING since the departure of my roommate. There’s a knock on my door. ‘Who the heck is that?’ I’m thinking. Open the door to [...]

So my final grade in Level 2 Intensive Japanese is…a B!! This was one of the hardest classes that I have ever taken, so I’m very proud of my B. Hopefully I can make it a B+ for Level 3??!?
Bring on the vacation!

Wednesday was such a lovely day. I spent most of it half-heartedly studying for my Japanese final. At this point, I was ready to take it immediately because I just wanted it to be over with. Went to bed around 1am with the intention of getting up at 6:30am to continue studying [...]

So today turned out to be a pretty interesting day. Got up at 7:30am, hit my alarm a couple times, then got all dressed up for the upcoming speech that I would have to make infront of 80% of my classmates. Naturally, of the 36 speeches that would be taking place, I was [...]

In 7 days I will be finished with the fall semester at JCMU. I am sooooo looking forward to a good 3 weeks off from this place. At this point I’m not even trying to think about 3rd year Japanese, because it scares me. At this point, all that I have left [...]

Last night I went to Coco’s with Cassidy and with all of our conversation partners to enjoy their new ‘winter’ dessert menu, which has many yummy strawberry dishes on it. When we were done eating, we left the restaurant to find it pouring out. Since the academic building (which is connected to Coco’s) [...]