Another set of Random thoughts

Well, my entries are getting shorter but it has more to do with me getting tired with classes. Perhaps, I will write a longer entry over the weekend, I'll try but no guarantees. As far as the classes go I had a nightmare about Kanji (Chinese symbols) last night. Whoever, came up with the idea of having Japanese 4 days in a row is...not a good person. Some of the international students here are actually taking Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean at the same time...crazy people. Oh, and one more interesting thing is that the Japanese students all have electronic dictionaries that they carry to their lectures, if there is a word they don't understand they translate it right away.

There were tons of High School students touring the campus today, they appeared a little shyer then the group that came before. A few did greet me with "Hello", considering that they did in 3 people together made me think that they are a little nervous about talking to us. If students come again I'll make sure to greet them myself.

Some interesting Social things that I noticed. First, smoking, there are only few small spaces on campus that you can smoke, unlike Stony where there are some rules but they are barely enforced. There is a small room in Komachi hall with a table. So I feel like they have sort of their own club.

The other thing is language, while everyone here speaks English pretty well the Japanese Students tend to speak Japanese between themselves as do the students from some other countries. Even if the students are friendly this does create a barrier of sorts, if they are talking in their native language you have almost no way of joining their conversation. On a more negative note, you can't be sure if they are talking about you, it is irritating (did happen) when you have the strongest feeling that something was said about you and you have no idea what it was and weather it was true. I guess this entry is descent sized...