Hey everyone. I want to write what I could before I forget. AND I've recently had more free time on me so it def. works out.
Anyways, today I woke up early for the Japanese Placement Exam. Considering I didn't study, I think I did alright, but there were tons of stuff I couldn't recognize... such as KANJI (Chinese Characters). I really do want to get placed into an easy level Japanese Course so that I can solidify the understanding of the Japanese Basics... J1 is the beginner's level which people with no experience go into, so I hope to be placed in J2 or J3, which is still elementary (I think).
Anyways, today at around 9:30 we had an earthquake! We were already inside the classroom taking our exam, but the proctors gave zero cares and told us to keep working. Personally, I thought we were going to evacuate or go under our desk since I'm so used to American protocol, but I thought it was pretty funny and a bit surprising that we were just told to stay in our seats. Granted, they have much more earthquakes than us in California and their buildings are more earthquake resistant so it's understandable
Anyways... during our break at about 10:45am, I noticed it was sprinkling... FINALLY different weather other than humidity and sun.... well... it really was still the same, it just added rain. The atmosphere was still very humid if not even more humid, and the weather was still warm. The trees and plants + the rain made the campus smell really good though.
Since then, I've just had brunch (Curry Rice / 2pc Chicken Katsu aka Chicken Nugget) and relaxed.
In about 5-10 minutes (1:30-1:35pm ish) I will need to leave for my next orientation, which is a academic one about registering for classes and information about Japanese language class..
Yeah so the orientation was pretty cool. We had 3 speakers. One was the head of the Japanese Studies program which lasts a year, so I won't be able to do it -- but his presentation was pretty creative, using a donburi (rice/meat bowl) as a metaphor to describe your experience at ICU and Japan. The last presentation was by the head of the Japanese Language Program named Kazumi Tanaka. She was an elderly woman but she was SO FUNNY and sounded so lax. Man, if only I could take a class with her, that would make my quarter. She was the most sarcastic and jokey Japanese national that I have met so far. Maybe she came from Kansai Region?
It started to rain again and it was quite beautiful because it wasn't completely cloudy. It was what I call "sunny rain". Not only was the scenery beautiful, but there were also orange and blue butterflies flying around, but I didn't manage to get a photograph of it.
Anyways, later that night we went to the first of two club orientation where there were about 20 performances, 5 minutes each. There were some really good performances like the Kempo performance where they made a Mario-type show and had mario use all these martial arts attacks on the enemies. LOL. Then there was a "hero club" where their performance was pretty much like a green power ranger fending off these evil doers. One club I was interested in was "ICU HUB" where domestic students can hang out with foreign students, so that'd definitely in my crosshairs. After the performance we got tons of papers from the clubs who performed who were waiting just outside. I had to go to the bathroom SO bad but I managed to hold it. lol.
After that I pretty much chilled in my room. It was quite relaxing again, but I'm not complaining. I actually saw my first Japan THUNDER and LIGHTNING when I was hanging out in my room so I wanted to eventually go downstairs and photograph it. I finished the last of my frozen food and had a packet of tonkotsu ramen. After hanging about for a bit, I went downstairs to the 1st floor to check out the thunderstorm. I ran into a big group of people and walked with them around outside to try and find / feed the campus cats (which we have quite a lot of apparently). The temperature outside was crazy because it had just rained, and it was overcast, but it was still a comfortable 75ish degrees! After feeding the cats we came back and went to the 3rd floor where it's always "at" and tried turning on Pacific Rim on the TV since there were people who wanted to watch it. Unfortunately the audio sucked so we turned on The Conjuring instead and watched that with Ashley, Julia, Andrew Z, Danny, and some others who came and left after realizing it was a scary movie. We stayed up until about 1:30am watching it, then we talked for a bit about other movies we wanted to watch and I later fell asleep.
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