Study Day?

First of all, I changed my settings on the blog so anyone and everyone should be able to comment now.... so please comment! Hehe. It's always fun to hear what everyone thinks when they read your blog =) Thanks for all the comments so far!

Another announcement: Greg has uploaded the first of our podcasts, so head on over to his blog and check it out! It was recorded on our plane flight, so please excuse how utterly bored we sound, haha.

Yesterday was pretty laid back, and that was nice. We were expecting Jeannette to arrive in Japan at around 3:00pm, so we didn't make any big plans (and I think we were about big-planned out). Sometime around noon, Hunter was kind enough to show Greg and I the proper, non-time-dimensional-warp way to get to Yaoko Marketplace. It's actually very very simple, and about the closest food-housing place to the DK House. There is a big curve in the road before you get there, so that could explain how we ended up there last time.

We all got some nice groceries while marveling over how much delicious-looking food their was, yet how it was all soo expensive. I've learned to look for a little discount sticker on the baked goods and I stick to the 98 yen shelves for everything else. We all got a box of sushi for a good anytime snack though, and it made a good snack last night! I was very tempted to buy a 600 yen tonkatsu and rice meal box that looks sooo delicious, but maybe I'll save that for a special day or something. 600 yen is too much to pay for something that isn't even fresh.

After we checked out, we went back over to the bakery section to pick out some lunch! They had some interesting lunch-appropriate baked goods, mostly involving hot dogs, tonkatsu (pork cutlet), or pizza, so we each picked out a few. When I went up to the register, the cashier had hopelessly frozen the machine and we got to watch as she tried to fix it, tried to get another girl to fix it, and the other girl called someone else to try and fix it, with everyone laughing nervously and apologizing the whole time for the inconvenience. In the end, we had to go to a normal register on the other side of the store (over to which the cashier BOOKED IT), but that was fine with us because it was closer to the exit. It was all kind of funny =)

We enjoyed our bakery lunches at the DK House and then went our separate ways. I tried to spend the afternoon studying without taking any naps or eating any snacks, but that just didn't pan out. I'm way way forgetful about kanji, so my personal goal was to get through reviewing the kanji in Genki II, but it seemed like I would write three or four kanji and then just tooootallly space out thinking about something else. I was having the most difficult time just staying focused =/ Aaand I ended up taking a short nap and eating some snacks as well, haha..

At some point after 6:00 or so, we started to get worried that we hadn't heard from Jeannette yet! We figured if she was supposed to get in at 3:00, she'd arrive at DK House about two hours later. So Greg and I decided we should go ask Uzuki-san if she had happened to arrive yet and just hadn't found us. That's what we decided to do, but what we actually did was poke our heads into the lobby, look around, see lots of students coming in but no Uzuki-san, and then run away back upstairs. It was preeetty pathetic. We tried again a few hours later, and the only reason we got any further that time was because another student was asking the same kind of question, and we saw that Mrs. Uzuki had a list of students with her. Unfortunately, Jeannette had not yet arrived!

A while later, Greg invited Hunter and I to come up and record a podc----errr.... hang out for a while in his room, so I was opening my door to go up there at the SAME TIME that none other than Jeannette was knocking on my door! =D Hooray! Jeannette made it to Japan! Her flight had been delayed. So we all grabbed our coats and headed out to the station so she could eat something after her long flight! Of course we went to Yoshinoya and we all got the gyuudon! I may have simple tastes, but I just love Yoshinoya, haha. It's simple and delicious and cheap and I can eat all of it. We had a very nice meal together and there was much laughter all around the table and on the way back home =)

After dinner, Jeannette rightfully passed out in her room, and the rest of us..err...just hung out in Greg's room. Yup. You'll hear more about it later. And that was the end of Tuesday! Today (Wednesday) is orientation at school, so I'm excited to see how that goes =)