It's already past my bedtime, but I think I'll update anyway.
1. Japanese class is oh so demanding. Srsly, a whole new vocab list, a reading and a worksheet each night? Man...
2. Today I went to lunch at Heiwa Nakajima's headquarters. Which was on the 33rd floor of a skyscraper in Roppongi (pretty central Tokyo), with, from the lunch table area, a stunning view of the sky-scraper filled area and a great view of Tokyo Tower (from that window was the first time I ever saw it, actually XD).
I got the first 200000 yen of my scholarship (the moving/set-up allowance). Holy cats. Now to buy a cell phone and denshi jisho.
We also had lunch, which was not just sushi, but great, expensive sushi. Man. I wasn't totally sure if I should wear a tie and get all dressed up, but as soon as I walked in and saw the oak paneling I knew I'd made the right decision.
I also got treated to a long lecture in Japanese about how the kanji for many newer words were determined by the Japanese, by combining old characters, of course, like 銀 and 行 to make ginkou ("bank" - a relatively new word in Japanese, which did not have kanji when it was introduced), not the Chinese, and how although some Chinese people know of this, most Japanese do not. I understood maybe 60% of it, tops, but he was so nice that I felt I had to keep listening.
Anyway, all in all it was a quite pleasant experience, I got the financial relief I was desperate for (having had only about 4000 yen left XD). Plus, though I had to take three trains to do it, I got to Roppongi all by myself. XD
3. We practiced our song tonight. +) I think our arrangement will be almost entirely all of us just singing in unison, since we have so little time to practice, but I'm still glad.
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