Dead neighbour is the best neighbour
I am not insanely happy with my neighbours right now. One seems to like banging something at walls in middle of night, and the nastier one speaks (in chinese) on VOIP or something during night. I think neighbour hunting season starts soon, although I will have a chat with the VOIP guy first (the random wallbanger is not frequent enough to prevent sleep, but loud speaking from the room next door is).
That said, the weekend was mostly interesting. On Saturday I went to Okazaki castle again, and saw fuji (wisteria in English I think) and some other assorted flowers blooming. Quite nice. On Sunday the forecast was bad, so I planned on playing Go at local Go club, but unfortunately they were on vacation or something and I went to Nagoya's Go club instead. It rained a lot the whole day :p.
Monday involved just furious studying, as I had 8 hours of it with people (5 in class, 2 private lessons and one hour of unmoderated talking) and some private activity on top of that. The day's first not-so-pleasant surprise was lack of open restaurants - it is Golden Week now in Japan, which means that most people are vacationing, so all reasonable lunch restaurants nearby were closed. So we ate boxed lunch, *sigh*. I assume that's on the menu for much of the rest of the week too, unless I'm luckier than I think.
This week there is a Go tournament in Nagoya on Sunday, and I intend to head there for fun. The days after Tuesday involve no school, but as all Japanese are vacationing I do not feel like being in middle of crowds -> I probably just study or do something else equally boring.
Next week school ends on Thursday, and I am still debating when to actually leave Yamasa - I have paid my rent only up to Tuesday, but I think I will pay one or more nights more. The infrequent picture flooding will most probably stop when I am in in travel mode, as I will depend on the unsecure wlan points for access and doing excessive file transfers is not good idea.
Rough plan for next week and start of the one after:
- 12.5. Thursday (at the latest) to Hakata １５２8→２０２０ or so
- Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday:
Hakata/Nagasaki/nature/onsen-project (not yet decided)
- Tuesday morning I head to Tokyo (or maybe Monday afternoon, not decided yet). Scary how it takes just 6h 12min (with 'slow' hikari class shinkansen) to go the whole 1170 km of Hakata-Tokyo.. of course plane would be faster, but this is cheap with JR rail pass.
- 17.5. Tuesday lurking around Tokyo
- 18.5. Wednesday -> Kyoto
- 19.5. Thursday Expo
- 21.5. Shinkansen-> XXX -> Tokyo
- 25.5. Return to 'real life' (*sniff*)
That said, the weekend was mostly interesting. On Saturday I went to Okazaki castle again, and saw fuji (wisteria in English I think) and some other assorted flowers blooming. Quite nice. On Sunday the forecast was bad, so I planned on playing Go at local Go club, but unfortunately they were on vacation or something and I went to Nagoya's Go club instead. It rained a lot the whole day :p.
Monday involved just furious studying, as I had 8 hours of it with people (5 in class, 2 private lessons and one hour of unmoderated talking) and some private activity on top of that. The day's first not-so-pleasant surprise was lack of open restaurants - it is Golden Week now in Japan, which means that most people are vacationing, so all reasonable lunch restaurants nearby were closed. So we ate boxed lunch, *sigh*. I assume that's on the menu for much of the rest of the week too, unless I'm luckier than I think.
This week there is a Go tournament in Nagoya on Sunday, and I intend to head there for fun. The days after Tuesday involve no school, but as all Japanese are vacationing I do not feel like being in middle of crowds -> I probably just study or do something else equally boring.
Next week school ends on Thursday, and I am still debating when to actually leave Yamasa - I have paid my rent only up to Tuesday, but I think I will pay one or more nights more. The infrequent picture flooding will most probably stop when I am in in travel mode, as I will depend on the unsecure wlan points for access and doing excessive file transfers is not good idea.
Rough plan for next week and start of the one after:
- 12.5. Thursday (at the latest) to Hakata １５２8→２０２０ or so
- Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday:
Hakata/Nagasaki/nature/onsen-project (not yet decided)
- Tuesday morning I head to Tokyo (or maybe Monday afternoon, not decided yet). Scary how it takes just 6h 12min (with 'slow' hikari class shinkansen) to go the whole 1170 km of Hakata-Tokyo.. of course plane would be faster, but this is cheap with JR rail pass.
- 17.5. Tuesday lurking around Tokyo
- 18.5. Wednesday -> Kyoto
- 19.5. Thursday Expo
- 21.5. Shinkansen-> XXX -> Tokyo
- 25.5. Return to 'real life' (*sniff*)
posted by Wanderer at 20:30
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