Monday, October 15, 2007
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Tests, Denny's, & Japanese Pennies.
Ok, so I'm going to whine again about the fact that we have tests everyday. Its a little aggravating but I guess its good in a way. At least if they test us everyday here, that means that every night we will all actually open our books instead of trying to start a top-eachother-on-how-long-it-has-been-since-I-opened-My-book contest. In that regard I am much more focused on my studies which is really nice. This is the kind of motivation that alot of people need in my personal oppinion. When I went to school in bellingham I think my record stands at like 3 months before I opened a textbook for a class, and that was before the final. (of course, not for my Japanese class, some other random class that wasn't any good for anything. Some English course or some such like that). I think the longest I go here without opening my book is like, half hour or so...you'd think that when you go to sleep you wouldnt be reading it but that is very ちがう、or very wrong. This book binds itself to your mind and forces you to open its pages every half and hour, concious or not. I had a dream the other night about being home with all my friends and we were all going to a sweet swimming hole near my old house, guess who decided to come along? My text book. No joking here, Minna no Nihongo decided to pop in and have a swim for about a half hour or so before it tried to drown me in vocabulary.
This weekend wasnt so bad though, I got to go and do alot of different things: of which included going to a Denny's. For some reason unknown to me, Denny's gradually becomes a better restaraunt as you go further east of Washington. At least thats my theory because by the time you go all the way around the world to Japan, Denny's becomes a severely nice place to eat. I had the best chef salad I think I've ever had (appologies to Jason "Hem-dog", the best chef beknownst to man, he has yet to make me one) in my whole life, and along with it some freshly, and I mean freashly, baked frenchfries. Now I know you're probably thinking "thats a barrel-o-lies, frenchfries never get made fresh" Oh no. They do. And its gooooood. My friends to the left and right all had nice lasangna's and quite a zesty bowl of ramen. It fills you up perfectly here too. You pay alot for the food and dont get very much but its almost worth it because you dont leave like...how do you say... ill from the ammount of food you have just consumed.
Along with that note, anything you buy here makes sure to be some odd type of number to make sure that you get at least 1円 (yen) penny back, with a max of 4円 pennies back. These are essentially useless, like the American penny, except that even if you take a giant jar full of them to the bank, they wont exchange them into money. So since I've been here about a month I have already amassed quite a few of these seemingly plastic pennies, and I pland to get some hot glue and make a tower, and then ironically sell this masterpeice of mine for about the number of pennies it takes to build it....
Hahaha--I know, I know "how devilishly tricky, Matt"..."your so smart Matt"..."That is the greatest plan that has ever existed ever!" Right? Right?
...Shut up, I know your not laughing. Well you might be but its not real laughing. Oh, dont try to say its for real, I know the truth. Oh yeah...I know. Watch yourself.
...yeah...moving on...
So theres an update for ya, sorry that I havent been on top of it lately. Hopefully people still stop by and check up every now and then. I'll resend and email just in case. Might need to cut my updates to the begining of the week and the end. w/e I'll figure it out. Soon there will be pictures too since I'm going to get a cell phone/5megapixel camera....Ahhh I love Japan. Cheers~
This weekend wasnt so bad though, I got to go and do alot of different things: of which included going to a Denny's. For some reason unknown to me, Denny's gradually becomes a better restaraunt as you go further east of Washington. At least thats my theory because by the time you go all the way around the world to Japan, Denny's becomes a severely nice place to eat. I had the best chef salad I think I've ever had (appologies to Jason "Hem-dog", the best chef beknownst to man, he has yet to make me one) in my whole life, and along with it some freshly, and I mean freashly, baked frenchfries. Now I know you're probably thinking "thats a barrel-o-lies, frenchfries never get made fresh" Oh no. They do. And its gooooood. My friends to the left and right all had nice lasangna's and quite a zesty bowl of ramen. It fills you up perfectly here too. You pay alot for the food and dont get very much but its almost worth it because you dont leave like...how do you say... ill from the ammount of food you have just consumed.
Along with that note, anything you buy here makes sure to be some odd type of number to make sure that you get at least 1円 (yen) penny back, with a max of 4円 pennies back. These are essentially useless, like the American penny, except that even if you take a giant jar full of them to the bank, they wont exchange them into money. So since I've been here about a month I have already amassed quite a few of these seemingly plastic pennies, and I pland to get some hot glue and make a tower, and then ironically sell this masterpeice of mine for about the number of pennies it takes to build it....
Hahaha--I know, I know "how devilishly tricky, Matt"..."your so smart Matt"..."That is the greatest plan that has ever existed ever!" Right? Right?
...Shut up, I know your not laughing. Well you might be but its not real laughing. Oh, dont try to say its for real, I know the truth. Oh yeah...I know. Watch yourself.
...yeah...moving on...
So theres an update for ya, sorry that I havent been on top of it lately. Hopefully people still stop by and check up every now and then. I'll resend and email just in case. Might need to cut my updates to the begining of the week and the end. w/e I'll figure it out. Soon there will be pictures too since I'm going to get a cell phone/5megapixel camera....Ahhh I love Japan. Cheers~
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