Well, as the title says that's pretty much all that's been happening so far, the least exsiting part of anything. I am currently listening to music on YouTube, something I haven't done since leaving the states and it feels surprisingly relaxing.
Yesterday, we had an "ice breaking" dinner. The food was all you can eat, and it seems the fact that I ate a lot less since I arrived in Japan caught up to me and I ate quite a bit. The actual "ice breaking" was pretty fun, we played a game called "Human bingo" where we had a bingo card that instead of numbers had things like "Like movies" and "Speaks more then 3 languages". Most of them were pretty general, you pretty much had to go around the room and fill in a person's name if they match the category. I do like the 2nd category I mentioned since with 1 semester of Japanese I was one of the few people in the room that qualified :) The first 10 people that completed the card got T-shrits and mugs but I don't think anyone cared too much about that. We then played a 2nd game where you had to play "Rock, paper scissors" and the person that lost would have to put their hands on the winner's shoulders and follow them around. The point was to eventually form a single long snake with a single winner. So fun night.
Today was not so fun, it started out with the super brutal "Japanese Placment exam." I doubt studying for it would do any good, all of it was rough and there weren't any questions that I felt were "beginner level". All I want is to get in to the 2nd semester class, the results will be posted tomorrow during "Academic orientation". We had a "Library oreintation" in the afternoon that I ended up sleeping through (A combination of the exam and still not being used to being here). Well, I can't wait for the weekend, I will try to take some pictures soon, I will also try to get off campus and have a look around, see if I can find an
Onsen, I am sure there is one around here somewhere . As I mentioned in my last entry there is a field trip organized by "Student Services" on Monday. The Community Outreach office also has a short trip to the "Agricultural Experimental Center Festival". I'll tell you how it goes.
PS: I updated the "Time stamp" on the blogs to US eastern time, for some reason it was set to Pacific (California) time, I am little curious at what time in New York I post these at.
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