Classes and internet

Internet is still lacking as of today, the 13th of October, but there is finally some headway. A group of four of us, Sergio, Yung, Ariane, and myself, went directly to the Overseas Liaison Office to speak with them about the matter. They called both Yamanobe-san I think and the people either upstairs or downstairs to find out more about the problems going on, such as the wireless card and the missing cooking utensils. The wireless card will come to the dorm and will be installed by one of us- probably me cos I’m the Computer Science major in house lol. The microwaves and rice cookers are up in the air right now honestly because funding from Sophia is very tight. From what I last heard from Ariane, the wireless card will come in tomorrow, even though the lady at the Liaison Office said maybe a week. But knowing that it’s coming (whether a week or day) makes my heart feel lighter and makes me feel happier with the knowledge that I’ll have internet soon.

A great success happened the other day though, I cooked my own food for the first time without burning anything and it tasted good! I cooked up some pieces of chicken, added some bean sprouts, and then finally added a pack of instant noodles. It was very good and even though I ate a lot of it, I had enough for lunch the next day. I’m so proud of myself ^.^v やった！

Anyways- the classes right now are fairly easy so I’m very happy. My hardest class to keep up with is Japanese, as we have homework and class EVERY day. My Literature class had Yung and Julie in it but both of them dropped out, Yung mainly because he said his English is very bad and he was having a difficult time understanding anything. I don’t know why Julie dropped out. For me, the class seems fairly straightforward and easy as long as I really work in it I think. I’ve had a lot of work analyzing text throughout my classes in my high school AP English courses so I think I’m fairly well set to take on the challenge of Pre-modern Japanese poetry, prose, and poem-tales.

On the other hand, Culture and Identity is very engaging and I think it’ll be harder to keep up with the ideas behind what I’m reading in this course. In fact, even in my first assignment, though I had a different answer from most people in the classroom, was still fairly far off from what Kelsky (the author) actually intended. Perhaps this class will cause me to look at things in a different light? I think that will be a very good thing and still quite enjoyable.

My last class I’ve only had once so far and the next time I have it is tomorrow. I can’t wait. I get to design my own webpage using a program called “Dreamweaver”. I have a friend attempting to get me a copy of it (torrent possibly) so I can work on my site from home and not have to worry about working on it only during the class. The teacher seems to be a lighthearted person, much like my other teachers, so I’m very happy. I think he’ll also explain a lot better than some of the teachers I’ve had in the past. I can’t wait to actually start designing since I want to redesign my three blog sites, including this one.

All in all, it’s been a lot of fun so far, my plant seems to be doing well- I’m sticking it outside during the day and bringing it in when I come home for the day. It’s a クロトン…. I have no clue what this is honestly. All I know is that it’s cute and when I get a chance, I’ll put pictures of it up on my Facebook. I’ve also bought some sewing and drawing supplies as well. I’ve already drawn a picture of a girl but I don’t know if I’ll put that up lol… she has no real face honestly because whenever I tried to draw it, it didn’t come out right. I think it looks more mysterious that way but I really want her to have eyes and a mouth honestly. >>;;; well… it was a good thought in the first place XD.

Anyways, I need to go to Harajuku to the Dai… something… the 百円 store. I’m going to pick up a white board, some more little flash card thingies, see if I can find a knife sharpener, and possibly bug spray since the flying ants seem to like my room whenever I open up my doors. It’s annoying to have to keep them shut all the time now. I enjoy having the actual air blowing into my room.

Anyways- it’s Wednesday, I have all of my homework done SAVE for the Culture and Identity because I need Internet access for that and I was too busy with other things at school today (aka kind of talking to too many people and downloading the movie Tuan kindly put up for me) so I didn’t really work on the assignment. My headphones don’t work on my little Acer computer anyways and I’m unsure why… they work fine on my Toshiba.

Oh well. I’m going to eat, possibly work on clothing, probably work on Misfortune’s Fortune (my awesome story that sucks people in apparently XD) and then go to sleep. ^^v

- One Lost American Girl

PS – not much to say here honestly today. I’m getting the books for Culture class shipped to me and am considering asking for my studio headphones. My MP3 player is beginning to fall apart as well- which makes me really sad. I think my instant きつねうどん is done XD