1st Day
It's around 11 in the morning, and i'm stepping in Japan territory.
It was really cool to land on Kansai airport, because it's on an artificial island, so it's just like we going right into the sea. I'm meeting with my girlfriend, watching around : there's only japanese people. It's normal but i just couldn't get used to it. We walking to the train station, looking at the map to see wich train we have to take to go to the house i'm gonna live in. Then I have to call the guy i'm gonna live with, and he'll pick me up at the station. I was really stressed, because i had to talk in japanese on the phone. I asked some vocabulary to my girlfriend, then learn the sentences i was going to use, and dialed the number. Well everything's fine on the phone, he's explained to me wich was the better way to get to the house.
I'm now living in Abiko, it's 3 train station to Tennoji in Osaka. Actually the guy i talked with on the phone, and exchanged mails before is not my housemate. He's my landlord. So when i saw a 50 years old man at the Abiko train station, i was really surprised !!!
In the house with me there's a western guy (i'm still wondering if he's english or american) wich i only met twice, but he seems cool and explained some things about the house to me ; and a japanese O.L (Office lady), wich i only met today, after 2 weeks. Anyway she seems really nice, and it was good exercise for me to talk in japanese with her.
The room is really big (bigger than the one i used to have in Lyon), and there's really everything i need in teh house (wich is quite big as well for Japan). In the Area of Abiko there's lots of restaurants and small shop, so when i need something i don't need to go to far away. Of course as everywhere in Japan there's lots of combini around my house.
My university is at less than 10 minutes walk from my house, so that's the other good point. I won't need to take train everyday, wich means doens't need to meet with the crow and to spend money. So i went to university the 1st day, because somebody told me i needed my student card as soon as possible. I meet with the litterature section administration, but they told me i needed to wait the meeting with my teacher (wich gonna be in 3 days, in 29th spetember).
DOing some shopping around, i'm buying my first manga in Japan (and actually i resisted not to buy around 1000 manga at the same time^^), a shower towel (cuz i didn't bring any with me >.<), and some food in the combini. I was also surprised to notice that even during summer, night is falling around 6pm in Japan. That's really wierd to me, doesn't make me feel that it's summer.
After that i went back home, cuz i only slept around 3 hours the last 40 hours, and fall asleep around 6:30pm. I wake up around 8, eat something with my girl, and watch japanese tv for a while. I don't remember what it was about because i was too tired, and i guess it didn't take me that long to fall asleep again.
To be continued
It was really cool to land on Kansai airport, because it's on an artificial island, so it's just like we going right into the sea. I'm meeting with my girlfriend, watching around : there's only japanese people. It's normal but i just couldn't get used to it. We walking to the train station, looking at the map to see wich train we have to take to go to the house i'm gonna live in. Then I have to call the guy i'm gonna live with, and he'll pick me up at the station. I was really stressed, because i had to talk in japanese on the phone. I asked some vocabulary to my girlfriend, then learn the sentences i was going to use, and dialed the number. Well everything's fine on the phone, he's explained to me wich was the better way to get to the house.
I'm now living in Abiko, it's 3 train station to Tennoji in Osaka. Actually the guy i talked with on the phone, and exchanged mails before is not my housemate. He's my landlord. So when i saw a 50 years old man at the Abiko train station, i was really surprised !!!
In the house with me there's a western guy (i'm still wondering if he's english or american) wich i only met twice, but he seems cool and explained some things about the house to me ; and a japanese O.L (Office lady), wich i only met today, after 2 weeks. Anyway she seems really nice, and it was good exercise for me to talk in japanese with her.
The room is really big (bigger than the one i used to have in Lyon), and there's really everything i need in teh house (wich is quite big as well for Japan). In the Area of Abiko there's lots of restaurants and small shop, so when i need something i don't need to go to far away. Of course as everywhere in Japan there's lots of combini around my house.
My university is at less than 10 minutes walk from my house, so that's the other good point. I won't need to take train everyday, wich means doens't need to meet with the crow and to spend money. So i went to university the 1st day, because somebody told me i needed my student card as soon as possible. I meet with the litterature section administration, but they told me i needed to wait the meeting with my teacher (wich gonna be in 3 days, in 29th spetember).
DOing some shopping around, i'm buying my first manga in Japan (and actually i resisted not to buy around 1000 manga at the same time^^), a shower towel (cuz i didn't bring any with me >.<), and some food in the combini. I was also surprised to notice that even during summer, night is falling around 6pm in Japan. That's really wierd to me, doesn't make me feel that it's summer.
After that i went back home, cuz i only slept around 3 hours the last 40 hours, and fall asleep around 6:30pm. I wake up around 8, eat something with my girl, and watch japanese tv for a while. I don't remember what it was about because i was too tired, and i guess it didn't take me that long to fall asleep again.
To be continued
posted by Raitoh at 7:08 AM
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