Cooks, Fans, and Placement Exams.

I've taken quite well to cooking here. Mostly I cook cheap things: onions, eggs, and toast. Sometimes I'll get a potato and fry it on up for breakfast. The funny thing about it is that everybody in I-House (International House) never cooks. I never see anybody cook but when I start cooking people come over and say hello, have a bite, and tell me how good it is in Japanese.

Beyond that, there is still quite a lot of awkward glances that people give me when I walk around. Its nice though, because every time I speak Japanese to a Japanese person, they always laugh. Seriously...like every time. I know they understand me because the sentences I'm saying aren't very difficult. I feel like some sort of phenomenon to men and women alike.

I am the giggle godzilla. Prepare yourselves o ye Japan inhabitants.

Heh, I actually laughed at that last bit. Pretty funny to think about. ::ponders::

Anyway! today especially was fun. You know those placement tests people freak out about in all those story's you hear about Japan's school system? guess what? I just took mine yesterday, and then, another one today. I was in that friggin chair from 9:20am till 2:00pm. o....m...great goodness....it was absolute pure and refined insanity. At first I was like "WHAT NOW TEST!?!" and after like a half hour it was a roller coaster between "Should I just burn my test and accept failure?" and "Forget burning the test, should I just die? like right here and now?". Needless to say it was one of those experiences that my dad would infamously say "it builds character", or something along those lines. Heres a good depiction of it:



Ah! This is a good comparison; it was comparable to the number of quotation marks in that last (or this) paragraph...in lifetimes of doldrums. That's 8 lifetimes of doldrums. One less than a cat, but lets be realistic cats have the good sit-in-the-cool-of-the-sun-and-lick-your-hands-then-go-eat-some-more kind of lives. Hardly comparable to doldrums.

This has been my life to date. I miss you all.

Oh! One more thing: I've decided to write on Monday Wednesday Friday. You guys can just check up then to read the latest. Cheers~