Bleh.

Well, no free time for awhile. Writing and reading is Kanji study, and since everyone else used the Genki textbook I have a lot of reviewing to do. We'll see if i can keep up with level 4. This sensei, Mori, uses much harder Japanese than the speaking teacher, sadly. But oh well. I really don't understand what my homework is (other than learning all these new characters,) and for speaking I think I was supposed to do something in the lab. I will find out tonight and perhaps I will be visiting the lab at 8:00AM if it's open tomorrow. Ugh.

So yeah, not much free time. Negotiation was fun though, it should be a good class. The professor is very likeable. It'll be fun doing mock negotiations and all of that. Japan China tomorrow might not be fun, we'll see if the professor likes to talk or if he likes to check on our progress of the reading. I don't have time to read 147 pages of something over two days with 4 other classes, two of which being the reason why I'm here. Sorry. I may drop this class if things don't go well, but we'll see if I can get by. There's a while before the final drop period.

Tonight I went exploring with Joe and another guy from the dorm, Jessie, to find a new place to eat. The place next door is great, but three variations of noodles gets old. We found one that serves Japanese / Western hybrid food, such as fried chicken with an egg and ham, over noodles with bean sprouts, with a mountain of rice, some miso soup, and some pickled radish. That was only 600 yen (less than $6!) I don't have my counters down though, so I messed up ordering two of the meatloaf + omlette dishes for Joe and Jessie and we had to wait for another one to be made. I should study that.

Anyway, that's all the time I have. About four hours left to study, so I have to get cracking.