Life with classes

Well, as expected my entries have slowed down a little bit. I do have few random thoughts to give. First, I just found out that there is no class on September 21-23. This is a Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Since I have no class on Fridays it means that this is a 5 day weekend. It is rather shame that I just found out about this, it does appear to be indeed a holiday and everything (in Kyoto) appears booked. There is another bus trip to a professional basketball game on the 23rd. I don't have much interest in basketball, but it is free and it will be nice to go out.

My roommate has finally arrived this morning, I only met him very briefly for about 5minutes. Based on a poster that he hanged in the room I assume that he just came back from studying abroad in Hong Kong, I will ask him for sure later tonight. I just came from my debate class, the professor did not show. We ended up having a long discussion about Ants and Bees (what he wanted us to research for today) without him. There is another class tomorrow, hopefully he'll come.

So, there are 2 things that I really want to do here but haven't gotten around to doing. The first one I mentioned earlier is to go to an Onsen (Hot Spring). Rumor has it that there are a lot of them here, however, most of them don't really have websites and if they do, they are generally in Japanese only. Well, I don't think this should be a problem, I will try asking where I can find one and hopefully go on Friday. The second is to go to a Karaoke bar, this is somewhat more complicated for me as I will need to either put some people together and go or join a group of people that are going. I overheard from people that went, that for about 2000 yen ($20) you get 2 hours with unlimted drinks and food. Make plans, make plans, make plans....