I never thought some creatures could stay awake 24/7 but it seems like chikadas can. It does not matter if it is day or night, there is a noise around the International House all the time. Despite the warmth, I even have to close my balcony door a bit for the nights so that the sound of the chikadas would not bother me while trying to fall asleep.
昨日カラオケを歌いに行きました。Yesterday evening we went to sing karaoke to Tenjin. We had some problems finding each others because our group (the European exchange students) had devided during the day. It is a bit hard to reach each others for now since most of us have internet only at the stations or some other places with free wi-fi. I don't even have wi-fi in my room. I still have to go downstairs to the lobby of the International House to get my phone connected to the internet. But getting back to karaoke... In Japan they have separate rooms for groups of friends where nobody else can hear them and you can call for free drinks (non-alcoholic, at least in the place we went to) anytime you want with the phone in the room. So it was so much fun to hang out with our group and sing songs in English, French and Japanese. I was so surprised when I could find a song coming from Finland (The Rasmus) and many songs of some of my favorite Japanese bands! When we left from karaoke there was such a heavy rain. We walked under the just bought umbrellas two people under each one. It felt so good when we finally got back to the International House.
Today's program was only go to a bank to have bank accounts us. We need those at least to pay the rent here. We had to fill again papers by copying the right kanjis from the example papers at "Kokusai sentaa". But we got to practice kanjis a bit more at the bank. We needed to be so exact with all parts of the papers that some of us had to copy the kanjis and other things 3 or 4 times again. For example you had to have your name written in capital letters and your family name first. If it was not like that, you basically had to fill the whole form again. We did not know whether to laugh or cry... The bank even got closed during the time we spent there copying and waiting.
I still have not described how the International House is like so here is some information about the place I stay at. When you enter to the lobby, you have to take your outdoor shoes off and change to the indoor flippers. (This is very normal in Japan.) You put your shoes/flippers to a tiny shoe box when you change to the others. The box is so small that you can fit there one or two pairs of shoes at a time and the rest of the shoes you just need to keep in your own room. The room itself is a size of 3x6 meters (approximately) and it has bathroom, toilet, fridge/freezer, bed, desk, chair and some shelves. In addition to this, there is a balcony attached to each room. Very nice, I would say. There is also an air conditioner but since one pays for the used electricity, I try to avoid turning it on. Better get used to the warm weather.
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| The lobby of the International House |
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