Sunday, September 7, 2008

Speaking Partner!

Today the home-stayers finally moved out, so we are rid of our arrogant, early-to-bed third-wheel. It's nice to not have to jump over his suitcases to get to my desk. We had a meeting on house rules for the third time and then I went to CIE to meet with Yukina who contacted me via Facebook.

She's really nice, and energetic! She's from Nara and does Japanese Archery, and apparently at some point she participated in a National competition which is pretty impressive. She wanted to learn English so she can understand English song lyrics and I guess it took off from there. We mostly talked in Japanese so I missed a lot... She also knows Kansai-dialect so she'll teach me some! Hopefully we'll become friends, I'd really like to make some Japanese ones. This will be hard until I get my cell-phone, which takes forever for us foreigners. I might try to get that taken care of tomorrow morning, we'll see.

Other than that it was a boring day from 3:00 out. People were in the kitchen playing Mario Kart on their DS' and I wasn't too interested as I can do that in the USA... They're all really nice though. I tried cooking gyoza again and failed, but my miso was fine since you just add water... So now I'm just puttering around the dorm. Oh well.

Hopefully tomorrow will be interesting with Asian Studies classes starting. We'll see.

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