September 24, 2006 – 7:09 pm
In the week before leaving for Japan, I received an email from a quirky-sounding girl named Akiko welcoming me to the school and prepping me on the next steps. For fun, I replied back to the email in Japanese thanking her. For some unknown reason, she replied back to me. This went on for the [...]
September 23, 2006 – 5:03 am
Lee and I were approached the other day about the possibility of working for the school as English teachers. Since I won’t be graduating at the end of this semester, I can’t take the job; but Lee is and can.
This was presented at the time when we have placement tests, our good friend and Resident [...]
September 20, 2006 – 9:12 pm
We, Lee and I, were both in a sort of panic this morning on our way to school to check out what classes we were put in to. When we got to the announcement board they had only put up the lower classes, so we had to wait around a little. Finally they put up [...]
September 20, 2006 – 1:11 am
Based on my score of yesterday’s tests, I got placed into the upper level tests today to determine which class I’ll be placed in to. Last semester I was in I class, which was designated as the intermediate level. This semester, having been designated into today’s test, I’m sure to be in one of the [...]
September 19, 2006 – 4:58 am
Finished!! The test was almost exactly the same as the same placement test administered my first semester here, and I can definitely say that this time it was easier. I understood more of the vocabulary; I understood more of the sentence patterns; I understood the reading comprehension passages along with their questions easier; all-in-all I [...]
September 19, 2006 – 12:05 am
It’s that time of year again, the beginning of the semester and therefor placement tests to determine our worth. According to our schedule that we were given at the end of last semester (in July), today we begin at 9am. According to the notice on the notice board, the old students begin at 9 and [...]
September 14, 2006 – 11:11 pm
That’s right ― I said it: Starbucks sucks. I don’t understand what it is that makes everybody just love Starbucks here, but I don’t see it.
While in Tokyo, I had to go to Starbucks. I paid about $3 for a small cup of orange juice and ice. There was no Vodka in the juice; nor [...]
September 8, 2006 – 10:35 am
I returned from Tokyo and all its splendid cities (Tokyo is a prefecture and a city, like New York) on Wednesday night. I was completely beat and nearly dead-tired, but we ― Lee and I ― decided to climb Mt. Fuji (affectionately called Fuji-san, 富士山, in Japanese) today.
We aimed at starting out ascent at around [...]