Weekly summary
Friday: Anjo Corona, Howl's moving castle (Miyazaki's latest anime) - wasn't THAT impressed.
Saturday: Study, study, study.
Sunday: Using cheap rapid trains (shin kaisoku), went to Osaka and back for Comic City 53 + assorted sightseeing + shopping. Didn't buy a thing, but had lots of fun and was VERY tired when I got back - one way, the trip is about 3 hours 15 minutes or so, I left home 6:40 in the morning and returned 21:30 in the evening.
Weekdays I mostly study, unfortunately(?). Interestingly enough, even as the japanese claim to have garbage problem, they use INSANE amount of packing material needlessly in my opinion. No matter what you buy in a shop, you get a plastic bag. Many things are seperately packed, like today I bought icecream+chocolate balls, and EACH of them was in their own small (1cm across or so) plastic bag. Insane :-)
Also did some hotel reservations, which was funny practise of japanese - we had done something similar in the class earlier (calling random tourist attraction and asking about various things politely, listening to results and relaying them to teacher; that was apart from the Toyota factory tour my favourite exercise so far ^_^). Too bad one can't take pictures in interesting places (Comic City, Toyota car factory)..
Saturday: Study, study, study.
Sunday: Using cheap rapid trains (shin kaisoku), went to Osaka and back for Comic City 53 + assorted sightseeing + shopping. Didn't buy a thing, but had lots of fun and was VERY tired when I got back - one way, the trip is about 3 hours 15 minutes or so, I left home 6:40 in the morning and returned 21:30 in the evening.
Weekdays I mostly study, unfortunately(?). Interestingly enough, even as the japanese claim to have garbage problem, they use INSANE amount of packing material needlessly in my opinion. No matter what you buy in a shop, you get a plastic bag. Many things are seperately packed, like today I bought icecream+chocolate balls, and EACH of them was in their own small (1cm across or so) plastic bag. Insane :-)
Also did some hotel reservations, which was funny practise of japanese - we had done something similar in the class earlier (calling random tourist attraction and asking about various things politely, listening to results and relaying them to teacher; that was apart from the Toyota factory tour my favourite exercise so far ^_^). Too bad one can't take pictures in interesting places (Comic City, Toyota car factory)..
posted by Wanderer at 13:16
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