wasn't late exactly, but I wasn't really ready on time either. I was rushing to class as usual. My laundry still wasn't completely dry either, so I had to wear semi-damp clothes in the cool weather today. I tried to throw them in the dryer for 15min, but the dryers here don't really work. They dried quickly once I got outside at least.Education was slightly less horrible today, cause luckily I didn't have to speak about my research homework this time. I got an easy question, specifically what factors made me choose to go to OSU, in comparison to what factors Japanese students consider when choosing universities. The teacher was still really mean to one of the poor Japanese girls though. And the class was as dull as ever of course.
Writing class went well. I got back my writing assignment, and I did fairly well on it actually. I had some mistakes of course, but she gave me really good comments too. My Japanese studies/culture class was sort of interesting. We talked about WWII, which is a really fascinating topic to me, and one of my favorite history periods to study. I drew a new picture of a kitty from one of my folders during the boring parts.
After class we went to this Japanese conversation club, which was set up by one of the
Japanese students, for international students and Japanese students to meet and talk in Japanese. Which is great for us to practice, and great for the Japanese students that want to meet international students. It was really helpful, I was talking with this girl from Taiwan for a while, and I did pretty well. It's nice to know my Japanese is working again.After the meeting we went to dinner, which kind of sucked cause we had to ride our bikes in the crappy rain (yay for my wonderful hat). We went to Big Boy's (as in Frisch's Big Boy), which was kind of too American and a little expensive. They had lots of like steak and grilled chicken and stuff. I just got spaghetti cause it was cheap ($6 for a small dish, this was the cheapest thing on the menu). It was fun, we got to talk more in Japanese. I was sitting with the guys from Britain and Amanda and one of the Japanese students. Unfortunately we ended up going off in English together quite a few times, and the poor Japanese kid couldn't understand a word we said. It's hard to resist when you're around other native English speakers. Eventually we vowed to start talking in Japanese, so we could practice, and so he could join in. This sort of worked, we really just ended up going back and forth between English and Japanese. Eventually another one of the Japanese students came and sat with us, and I was trying to converse with him. Which went pretty well I thought. I was able speak without too much stuttering I suppose. But he and the other Japanese kid seemed kind of shy lol, and it was rather awkward when I couldn't think of another topic to say in Japanese, and they wouldn't say anything either, and I would just delve back into English with the others again. It's really hard to come up with topics when you're not a native speaker...
I temporarily misplaced my bike key when we went to leave. The Japanese students were nice and helped me look for it. I thought I put it in my pocket, but it wasn't there, so we looked around the table we sat at. Then the one kid had a brilliant idea and told me to look in that random useless little pocket inside the normal jeans pocket, which of course was exactly where it was. I misplace that stupid key so often.We biked home in the rain, which was coming down considerably harder than before, so I was rather wet by the time I got home (again, yay hat!). It was 10:15 by the time I got home, we spent over 2hrs at dinner. Then I showered and did homework and stuff, and now it's 3am, and I'm finally done writing my blog yay.
Pictures are from dinner. No one else was looking at the camera in the first picture :(
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