It's been awhile since I updated my blog, not like much have happened since the last update, so I am not even sure where to start. Just to try and sum it up rather shortly.
- School have mostly been the same for the past 2-3 weeks. Not much to say about that. At least the food and drinks are cheap and good!
- We all got our own Japanese conversation partners. I got a 19 year old boy named Yuya Takada who is currently studying English at JIU. And my rather big suprise, he has already been studying English for about 6 years. But despite having studied for such a long time, our Japanese appear to be better then his English. He is really nice, but at the same time rather quiet...So there aren't really much talking unless I am the one who starts a conversation.
- Ingrid and Yong's conversation partners like to call me ハンサムさん (Hansamu-san as in "Handsome"-san) since it sounds like ハンスさん (Hansu-san, as in "Hans"). Ironically it seems like I've met their conversation partners more then I've met my own...And at first they thought I was a Japanese guy, so I guess I really have to get used with people treating me as if I was a native Japanese?!
- Finally got my internet connection, woho! But since torrents aren't working, I'll still be switching back and forth.
- Been to Tokyo Game Show. The amount of people, the time spent on waiting in line to try out various games and plenty of cute looking booth babes was ridiculous! I grabbed quite alot of pictures from both days, but I'll post them later unless some of you really curious how it looked like. And no, I didn't take any pictures of cosplayers, and I only took one picture of two booth babes which were representing the video game developer Level-5.
- One Japanese neighbour have been complaining about how noisy we are during afternoon/night time. We did recieve some heads-up/warnings beforehand, thinking that the complaints didn't come from one single person, but from other people as well. So last night around 8 PM, Hara-sensei paid a visit to our apartment complex and told us that (s)he (?) was the only one who complained.
Apparently she threatened to call the police when some of my classmates were sitting outside and smoking (this was in the very beginning, when some of them arrived in Japan then earlier then me). Another thing is...she haven't bothered to say "Hello" back to my classmates when they tried to communicate with her (at least from what I gathered). We were told from Hara-sensei that the girl thought we looked suspicious, scary and threatening. She also have a "powerful" (in my ass) father which is a politician (in fact, it was her father who called to JIU and complained), so the teachers couldn't just ignore all the ridiculous complaints from her.
I have no idea whether she is a racist or not, or whether it's her "powerful" politician father blowing the minor complaints into unimagineable proportions (oh, that would make HIM a racist). But complaining about us being noisy when we are socializing (some classmates take a drink/smoke, others are chatting) during non-school times is so god damn ridiculous. For all I know, the offended person could be some extremely paranoid person, and at the same time being spoiled by her father.
Either way, as for now we were told it's best to stay inside our apartments for the time being (1 month, that's what I was told by Fredrik). Always nice to have some random prick spoiling the fun for the rest of the crowd.
And oh, please comment on my blog whenever you have time. Otherwise I'll just become even less motivated updating my blog, even though you have to suffer through my horrible English writting skills!
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ah, good to see you posting again Hans:) Well someone just have to suck all the fun out of things, so now our appartments has more or less become some kind of prison. (Well I guess she is happy now when she don't need to see other people (or foreiners) that often)
Well, I'm not that sure we will se our talkingpartners that often, if they aren't contacting us, it's not that much fun when to have a conversation mostly feels like rowing a boat in a sea of syrup :P
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