Falling behind!

October 13, 2009 ellagoesglobal

My gosh, I’ve not updated for so long, I have about a weeks worth of stuff to talk about! One would think that’s a lot, but in fact, I’ve been pretty dull and not done much. However, I did have my placement test. Which went pretty well, I got placed in to the intermediate group, which is level 4 of 8, and I’m with people who have been studying between a year, like myself, and 5 years. And to be honest, I am the most rubbish person in the class, and I’m also the youngest. However, this doesn’t bother me too much, as I hope to just get to their level quickly through working hard….I say this now, but talk to me in a month or so and see how far along I’ve come with that. Anyway, everyone seems very nice, very proficient. So I must reach that raised bar, so to speak.

Anywhooooo, what else have I done? I went out to Karaoke and for a meal with the lovely guys from ICU (That’s the International Christian University in Tokyo, where Miles, Katy and Rob are all studying on their year abroad) which was SO fun. Especially after the day Hattie and I had had. We managed to spend the equivalent of £50 on a pillow, a pillow case and a sheet. YES I KNOW, it’s ridiculous. You don’t need to tell me. Japan is HARD. Then we went to a restaurant and accidentally ordered twice as much food as we had wanted, but ate it anyway, out of politeness and sheer hunger. So that cost us more money. I’m struggling with money as it is. However, this did make us wary of hitting the Kichijoji night life due to financial reasons, but in the end we submitted to peer pressure and tagged along. Hattie and I were both so grumpy about the loss of money on stupid things (although we did acquire a pretty damn good pillow) and didn’t feel too up for going. However, it turned out to be such a good night! We all went to an izakaya (a japanese pub), where we had to sit on the floor and I was wearing quite a short dress, so I had to sit on my knees until my legs went numb. Here we are enjoying our yakitori, or not, as the case was, because it was fried cartilage on a stick. I had fried spring onion on a stick. Sustenance galore. But a good time was had by all.

You can see by this photo that there isn’t a smoking ban in public places in Japan yet, so the air was sooo smokey.  Here’s one of Katy, Fran and myself, I heard someone shout Charlie’s Angels and so I thought everyone else was posing. Evidently, it was just me.

And OH MY GOD I tried Sake, and Plum wine, both of which are delicious. The sake was warm and scrummy, and the plum wine was so sweet, and sooo alcoholic. It was possibly the nicest alcohol I’ve ever had. And that is saying something. Going to be doing that again, definitely. Here you are, here’s me with plum wine:

And anyway, on we went from the izakaya, and to Karaoke we headed. It was AMAZING we had so many free drinks and so many songs were sung. My favourite was definitely Baby Got Back, performed by Miles. It was amazing. Here we are all enjoying a good old sing song:

Hattie’s really in to it. Haha.

Anyway…I fell asleep on the train home. It was fun.

On Friday…or Saturday…I don’t know, we had a welcome party in our halls of residence, which was fun. I met loads of people in the end, speaking mainly a mixture between drunken english and broken japanese. It was grrrreat.

Something I have noticed about Japan is that the skies here are incredible! They turn such wonderful colours at sunset, it was purple the other night, and I can see mount Fuji from my balcony! I shall attach a photo, hang on…

This is Matt’s photo which I stole, because I’m a crap photographer and Fuji looked like a breast in my photos. But there he is, in all his wonderous awesomeness. It’s a fantastic sight.

Anyway, I have got more things to write, but too much to get on with for the moment, so until next time….sayonara

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• 1. Rachel-san  |  October 13, 2009 at 19:46

  Did you shop in the Japanese equivalent to Harrods for that pillow. Mt Fuji is indeed magnificent
  Love you mamaxxxxxx

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