Orientations

Since there're lots of orientations in these three days. I don't go to anywhere except for a tour within the campus. I have met many new friends. However, since this programme is for international students in nature, I have befriended only 3-4 Japanese students. Anyway, quality should be given more importance thatn quantity, shouldn't it?

On Thursday, I went to Toyonaka campus by Train. However, it appeared that my room mate Kim, who went there by bicycle, arrived at the campus much quicker than me. What a surprise!
Will find his special route somehow.
I also learned from my colleagues that the university dorm, though much cheaper than my place, had lots of troubles. How fortunate that I didn't push so hard in changing my accommodations. The saying "You got what you pay" is still applicable in this case.

Tomorrow, all the classes will start, hope that all the things will get well with usual.

Staurday-Monday

15 Sept 2010
- Buy the clothshanger from Saty-know that the Japanese has a special way of packing the big stuffs.
- Found out that I could bu cheap Sashimi at the Supermarket.
- At night I met another thwo Danish people and one Amermican from Seattle. All of us went for drinking at Umeda. Hopefully that I will be able to ride a fenris wheel someday.

26 Sept 2010.
-Mostly stay at home. However in the evening I went to explore how to get to the Campus on food. Even got lost at first, I found out that it took about half an hour to walk from my place to the campus.
- Will try to play Starcraft lesser.
-Came up with some resolutions for myself.

27 Sept 2010
- Finally got the alien certificate and opened the bank account.
- In the morning I went to the Yamada station on foot. Found out that it took about 40 minutes. On the way I also found students do apublic works. Very interesting.
- Bought Hankyu pass. Costs 1200 yen. I later found out that it couldn't take me to places in Osaka. However, I found out that it can be used for travelling to Kyoto.
- I went to Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto to find my short term crush that I met two years ago. I found the shop where we worked at. However, it was closed because I arrived in the evening. The shrine was closed as well. I will try next time.
- Met two colleagues from Thailand and Korea.
- The orientation will start tomorrow. Hopes everything will go well.
- Met an oussep colleagues from France.

Second and Third day in Japan

23 Sept.

- I went to the Shopping mall to buy some stuffs for my new apartment.
-In the afternoon, the technician came to fix my AC. Actually, the thing wasn't broken. There's only some misunderstandings. The even though he couldn't speak English, the technician was nice and had a mild manner.
- In the evening I went to the Shinsaibashim the shopping district where I had visited two years ago. I also had a ramen in the same place. It's 850 yen.

24 Sept 2010
- In the morning I went to the City Hall in Suita. Got the registration and insurance matters done. However, I still had to apply for the certificate on Monday and opened a bank account then.
-In the afternoon, I went to Den Den town at Nipponbashi station. There were tons of interesting such as anime stuffs, toys, and maid cafes. In fact there were also adult stuffs. By the way, all of them were expensive. Before I returned to my place, I had lunch at maid cafe called E-maid. The maid sans there were nice. One of them could speak English fluently.
- I started to study more Kanji alphabets now. Hope it will get better.

First day in Osaka

I just arrived in Osaka today for my participation in the long awaited Exchange programme. Even though there are several inconvenience occurred during the day: Have to fly by the economy class instead of the expected business class, the broken AC while the weather is still bery hot, and the internet that is not wireless (that makes me travel to the other part of city to buy the LAN cable), things still go well. The staffs and the colleagues are very nice. Like the previous visits, many Japanese I have encountered (such as Taxi driver, Waitress in the Ramen shop ) are professional enthusiastic in their works.

I have several expectations when I come to attend this exchange programme. Hopefully that all of them will be fulfilled.