Weekly summary
Up to last week, the group of students at Yamasa in my class has been limited (mostly only one classmate, during first week 3 classmates). That changed last friday, and not really for the better. Now I have 5 classmates, and some of them are struggling to keep up => teaching is slow => I am very bored in class. I have gotten into a habit of dragging my laptop to class to study with it when it seems I have spare time (so far, quite lot of it, really, unfortunately).
Friday afternoon: Osaka castle with fellow student (castle itself was boring, but the park was nice; maybe not worth the 1000 yen entrance fee). After that, we went to Sakae (shopping district), browsed through two stores, found wireless LAN access, and located nearest Book-Off. Went there, and got home after 22, quite tired.
Saturday: Went sightseeing with the same guy. Inuyama castle (oldest surviving in Japan) was quite impressive, as well as Meiji-Mura (lots of 100-year-give-or-take-some old buildings in a nice garden with museums and stuff). In afternoon went to a famous teahouse for a quick walk - their garden was also quite nice. When sun went down, returned to Nagoya. In Nagoya, assorted shopping (laptop memory, new ipod headphones (lousy ones, as it turns out), some anime/manga fan stuff). After dinner, we used same method as the previous day to locate larger Book-Off store, and went there. Bought some 40-ish manga books or so for 3000 yen (24 eur?) - now I need to figure how to ship them home. Got back to apartment around midnight, very tired (having walked from the morning, and dragged tons of stuff half of the day too).
Sunday I mostly rested and studied a bit. Had a nasty fight with the laptop's extra memory, turns out it was overheating due to sticker on it. Oh well, now it works (and I have 768MB RAM).
Monday I did my studying record; 0900-1430 in class (40 minute food break in middle), 1440-1530 private lesson, 1630-1800 talking session with teachers-in-training, 1830-2230 homework+kanji study at home.
Therefore I did not feel very motivated to study so hard today so I'm semi-idling through the late evening, sorting photos and so forth (although I have studied few hours today too).
Friday afternoon: Osaka castle with fellow student (castle itself was boring, but the park was nice; maybe not worth the 1000 yen entrance fee). After that, we went to Sakae (shopping district), browsed through two stores, found wireless LAN access, and located nearest Book-Off. Went there, and got home after 22, quite tired.
Saturday: Went sightseeing with the same guy. Inuyama castle (oldest surviving in Japan) was quite impressive, as well as Meiji-Mura (lots of 100-year-give-or-take-some old buildings in a nice garden with museums and stuff). In afternoon went to a famous teahouse for a quick walk - their garden was also quite nice. When sun went down, returned to Nagoya. In Nagoya, assorted shopping (laptop memory, new ipod headphones (lousy ones, as it turns out), some anime/manga fan stuff). After dinner, we used same method as the previous day to locate larger Book-Off store, and went there. Bought some 40-ish manga books or so for 3000 yen (24 eur?) - now I need to figure how to ship them home. Got back to apartment around midnight, very tired (having walked from the morning, and dragged tons of stuff half of the day too).
Sunday I mostly rested and studied a bit. Had a nasty fight with the laptop's extra memory, turns out it was overheating due to sticker on it. Oh well, now it works (and I have 768MB RAM).
Monday I did my studying record; 0900-1430 in class (40 minute food break in middle), 1440-1530 private lesson, 1630-1800 talking session with teachers-in-training, 1830-2230 homework+kanji study at home.
Therefore I did not feel very motivated to study so hard today so I'm semi-idling through the late evening, sorting photos and so forth (although I have studied few hours today too).
posted by Wanderer at 15:40
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