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OMG - an update two days in a row!
Jul. 4th, 2007 12:08 pmFor my like three loyal readers (I adore you BJ, and you too Mish, and ... umm... I think mom might be out there somewhere!) I've managed to take a couple of minutes this evening on the 4th - the birthday of a nation that I'm not currently in. I'm nostalgic about it though, in a kind of "aww, isn't it sweet? where are the fireworks" kind of way. The funniest thing is that we can actually buy way more fireworks here than we can in Austin.
Today we were promised test scores by our sensei, but we have not received them. Sadly. Or perhaps not.
In celebration of the fact that it was Tuesday we went to Akihabara, the electronics district and I made my very first "oo, i have to get that when I'm in Japan" purchase! I bought an anime of Ursila K. LeGuinn's Earthsea trilogy (well, the first book anyway) called Geddo. I haven't watched it yet because I don't have the correct software/hardware config, but I do have the movie in my possession and it may end up being part of my research about the translation of fantasy/scifi from the west into japan and back, so hey, YAY for me!
Still on the list is an anime that's titled "The Golden Laws" in English - I did a paper on it, but couldn't actually find the film, and since it's done by a cult that's fairly low profile now, I may still have some trouble. But the hunt for stuff has finally begun!
We also found a manga shop filled with manga as far as the eye could see - and most of the male customers wandering around the separate porny section. Gu-san, the guy who went with Megan and I, offered to buy our porn for us if we were uncomfortable about the whole thing, but we both agreed we'd rather look for porn at our leisure and buy it ourselves. We also found a shop selling Nintendo DS - I might actually buy one because they're cheaper than the pocket electronic dictionaries that everyone has and they come with a kanji program that's just as extensive. And then I can buy the brain game exercise programs too! No, I'm not a terribly good gamer kid, why do you ask?
So it's turning into 1:30 am here, and I should be off to dreamland and then up in the morning for another kanji quiz tomorrow. Our professor seems to have taken our complaints about the workload to heart because we actually got it done in 3 hours tonight instead of 4 or 5. Horray!
( And then there was the Guest Speaker yesterday )
And with that I bid you all goodnight, sweet dreams, and hopefully be checking in tomorrow!
Today we were promised test scores by our sensei, but we have not received them. Sadly. Or perhaps not.
In celebration of the fact that it was Tuesday we went to Akihabara, the electronics district and I made my very first "oo, i have to get that when I'm in Japan" purchase! I bought an anime of Ursila K. LeGuinn's Earthsea trilogy (well, the first book anyway) called Geddo. I haven't watched it yet because I don't have the correct software/hardware config, but I do have the movie in my possession and it may end up being part of my research about the translation of fantasy/scifi from the west into japan and back, so hey, YAY for me!
Still on the list is an anime that's titled "The Golden Laws" in English - I did a paper on it, but couldn't actually find the film, and since it's done by a cult that's fairly low profile now, I may still have some trouble. But the hunt for stuff has finally begun!
We also found a manga shop filled with manga as far as the eye could see - and most of the male customers wandering around the separate porny section. Gu-san, the guy who went with Megan and I, offered to buy our porn for us if we were uncomfortable about the whole thing, but we both agreed we'd rather look for porn at our leisure and buy it ourselves. We also found a shop selling Nintendo DS - I might actually buy one because they're cheaper than the pocket electronic dictionaries that everyone has and they come with a kanji program that's just as extensive. And then I can buy the brain game exercise programs too! No, I'm not a terribly good gamer kid, why do you ask?
So it's turning into 1:30 am here, and I should be off to dreamland and then up in the morning for another kanji quiz tomorrow. Our professor seems to have taken our complaints about the workload to heart because we actually got it done in 3 hours tonight instead of 4 or 5. Horray!
( And then there was the Guest Speaker yesterday )
And with that I bid you all goodnight, sweet dreams, and hopefully be checking in tomorrow!
