Because of several issues, I am indeed in a dorm instead of a house, and considering how fast I realized that I was nearly dying of boredom, that might be a good thing... (I've been here for less than 30 hours.)
My roommate is named Shiori (or Shio), and she is in fact an exchange student... from Japan! She very nicely let me hang out with her and introduced me to her friends, who were also nice and almost all from Japan, and we got to talk about music and manga and Ponyo.
As the final day of orientation, the students got to go down the bay and experience the canoes!
They're Hawaiian canoes, so they're very long and skinny, and each one sits 6 people. I was Number 2. (I would have been Number 1 had that not been the steering position, and then it would have felt very Star Trek-like and awesome. But anyway.)
None of us flipped the canoe over, which was good, and we very thoroughly lost the races, which was okay.
I also, of course, forgot my camera.
As a result of the beach adventure I also have a large and painful sunburn on my legs... but only on one side.
Classes start tomorrow, and I get to buy textbooks and harass a whole bunch of people, what fun! Like the housing office, after the dining hall couldn't let me in because I wasn't on the list. I LOVE my little hotpot. Cup noodles and tea, how very college-like. (Well, maybe not the tea.)
I'm currently signed up for Japanese (the 'special' class), two Japanese Studies courses that I don't feel much like taking but might as well get out of the way, Linguistics (yay!), and Sociology (not so much yay.).
We'll just see how things go.
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| By the sea, by the beautiful sea~ |
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