Feelin' Bloggish

Thanks to a bunch of random incidents, my parents thought it would be best if we left for the airport four hours early.

My daddy was so sad, he wouldn't even look into the camera.

Sam, me, and Antonia. We all go to Baruch, and Antonia was in my Japanese class.

We met other students going to KGU at the airport. Here, we've stopped over at Incheon Airport in South Korea, and had an opportunity to dress up in hanbok costumes.

At Kansai International Airport (KIX), waiting for other flights to land, so we could all take the limousine bus to the dorms.

Since I'm a homestay student, I was only there temporarily staying at Seminar House 1 for the first week. Most of my friends were in Seminar House 3, although some would leave for their homestay families as well. Here's what my dorm looked like:

Three futons. They are surprisingly comfortable. I slept near the paper doors (shōji), and I was afraid I'd poke a hole into it and wouldn't get my deposit back, 'cause I kept banging my arm into that thing when I slept.

Haha, I was tired after waiting at the airport for hours, so I just threw my stuff all over the place. But as you can see, there's a table, and in the corners, two desks for each of the students that would be staying there for the semester.

Closets, and not pictured is the air-conditioner/heater. If you don't count the futons and the one table, the room is pretty much evenly divided down the middle.

The first night, I had the room to myself. The following days, my roommates from Germany and New York arrived as well.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to take a picture of the rest of the facilities. There's a lounge, a kitchen, laundry room, bathrooms and showers, etc. The kitchen utensils are locked away for the first week, so I bought some spoons and forks at the 100 yen store (Japanese equivalent of 99 cents store). But you can boil water and microwave food. The showers have some kind of water saver thing going on, where you have to press on the handle every so often for the water to come out. Either that, or I didn't stay long enough to figure out how they worked, lol.

[Disclaimer: This post came from the future...!]