Last orientation day
Konnichwa!
Today I went to check out a hiphop dance class at Shinjuku Sports Center. I just stood outside trying to get a peek and after a while the instructor came out and I thought she wanted me to get lost, but instead she invited me to enter the room and sit on a chair and watch! So that’s what I did. The instructor was really good at dancing. She could really move! There were only four people there but she told me that usually there’s seven. At my gym at home we’re at least 12 for every class. I’m probably not going to take that class cause it’s in the morning and I have to go to school, but there’s one other class in the evening and I’ll probably take that one instead. I’m not afraid of making a fool of myself…I’ m not ashamed about being stiff.
Waseda University has about 3000 different clubs called circles and today we had a club orientation. It wasn’t any good at all actually! So I don’t know what clubs to join or if I even should join one. But the Japanese students that were there to help us were joking all the time and singing the Waseda anthem. I really liked them, they’re throwing a party for us tonight at Takadanobaba (just 20 minutes from my dorm). It’s called a “drinking party”. For 2500 yen you get free food and drinks. Too bad I’m a vegetarian that doesn’t drink any alcohol. When I told that to one of the Japanese students it took him a while to understand what I meant and when he did he just looked at me as if I was from another planet. Then he said that I could have as many soft drinks as I wanted! I must repeat that the Japanese population is so nice all the time, even when they think you’re weird.
Now I understand the benefits of belonging to a highly ranked university as Waseda, I live really close to school and the center of Tokyo, we have access to a gym, clubs and many other things. Other students have to travel about 40-50 minutes to get to their school so I believe I’m really lucky. Yesterday I met two Japanese girls that wanted to take me around Tokyo and the typical Japanese neighborhoods outside of Tokyo. So I’m going to give them a call as soon as everything calms down a little bit.
I’m just wishing for me to learn Japanese really well. It will be difficult but I think it’s possible.
Today I went to check out a hiphop dance class at Shinjuku Sports Center. I just stood outside trying to get a peek and after a while the instructor came out and I thought she wanted me to get lost, but instead she invited me to enter the room and sit on a chair and watch! So that’s what I did. The instructor was really good at dancing. She could really move! There were only four people there but she told me that usually there’s seven. At my gym at home we’re at least 12 for every class. I’m probably not going to take that class cause it’s in the morning and I have to go to school, but there’s one other class in the evening and I’ll probably take that one instead. I’m not afraid of making a fool of myself…I’ m not ashamed about being stiff.
Waseda University has about 3000 different clubs called circles and today we had a club orientation. It wasn’t any good at all actually! So I don’t know what clubs to join or if I even should join one. But the Japanese students that were there to help us were joking all the time and singing the Waseda anthem. I really liked them, they’re throwing a party for us tonight at Takadanobaba (just 20 minutes from my dorm). It’s called a “drinking party”. For 2500 yen you get free food and drinks. Too bad I’m a vegetarian that doesn’t drink any alcohol. When I told that to one of the Japanese students it took him a while to understand what I meant and when he did he just looked at me as if I was from another planet. Then he said that I could have as many soft drinks as I wanted! I must repeat that the Japanese population is so nice all the time, even when they think you’re weird.
Now I understand the benefits of belonging to a highly ranked university as Waseda, I live really close to school and the center of Tokyo, we have access to a gym, clubs and many other things. Other students have to travel about 40-50 minutes to get to their school so I believe I’m really lucky. Yesterday I met two Japanese girls that wanted to take me around Tokyo and the typical Japanese neighborhoods outside of Tokyo. So I’m going to give them a call as soon as everything calms down a little bit.
I’m just wishing for me to learn Japanese really well. It will be difficult but I think it’s possible.
posted by Indra at 5:16 PM
2 Comments:
Hej Indra!
Du verkar trivas med ditt nya spännande liv i Tokyo.
Har du möjlighet att kontakta Yumiko?
Ha det gott och sköt om dig.
Kram// Achara
Hej Achara! Jag har tänkt göra det så fort jag får tid. Jag fick inte internet förrens för någon dag sedan men oroa dig inte jag ska snart göra det och även skriva till alla på jobbet! Jag mailar dig när jag mailat henne!
Sköt om dig och tack för allt.
Kram
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