2.10.2012

Orientation week

First off, I would like to apologize because my posts might get really long. I like to go into details about things...and I ramble...a wonderful combination, don't you think? I'll try to summarize my orientation week...
During orientation week, everyone has to stay at the seminar houses, so there might be 3 people living in one room during the week. Jessica was my first roommate, and she's from Australia and doing a homestay. Thus, she left after a week. My second roommate was named Sabrina, and she decided to rent an apartment instead of living in the seminar houses...so what happens to me at UNI (switching roommates every semester or having a roommate leave) actually happened in Japan! Woo! Well, now I have another roommate name Veronica, and she's from New York. She's pretty cool. We have a class together and eat together sometimes....and the most important thing is that she likes Epic Rap Battles and the LOTR movies XD.
Anyway, back to my first roommate, Jessica, she was really nice, friendly, and helpful. She introduced me to the Big Bang Theory, which is ok...I like Sheldon's character! XD And we attempted to do a Harry Potter marathon...and epically failed. We fell asleep during the first movie and stopped after it was finished...haha so much for that! She's actually sitting next to me in the computer lab as I type this. Random fact....=] (but not anymore because I'm editing this in my room. :P)
Orientation was filled with a bunch of helpful and useless meetings...I registered for classes and got into Reading and Writing Japanese 1, Speaking and Listening Japanese 1, Monsters, Ghosts, and the Making of Japan, International Communication in Japan, and Japanese Popular Media and Culture.
I'm so lucky that I got into Monsters, Ghosts, and the Making of Japan because 30 people can be in the class...and there are 29 people on the waiting list!!! Unfortunately, these two girls, who are twins, signed up for the class, and one got in and one didn't. Go figure!
I found out that my International Communication in Japan course counts for Sociolinguistics as part of my TESOL course...so I can graduate from UNI in two years, and study abroad twice (er technically 4 times if you count summer)!
At the seminar house there are three RAs, Eriko, who is really awesome and I talk to her sometimes; Midori, whom I have talked to a couple times (she tried to talk to me in Japanese), and Kaito, who said hi to me. They're really nice. Kaito said he likes to work out and said that if anyone wants to go with him to the gym that they could go with him, and I was tempted to ask because I work out sometimes at home, and I don't know if I can go four months without working out. I think it would be awkward if I asked though. Of course I think a lot of non-awkward things are awkward because I make them awkward. =D
My next post will be about me getting my computer registered XP ~Fin~

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