Japanese Level: 2G

So today we had our interviews with our new Japanese teachers. Apparantly I am in Japanese level 2G. Level 2 is the intermediate level and class G is the most advanced intermediate class... Did that make sense? Well.. anyway, I'm pretty happy with where I was placed. I met one of the teachers, they were all soo very nice. The only thing I'm NOT happy about is.......... I HAVE SCHOOL ON SATURDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who does that? Who does that to someone? Obviously some cruel person at Keio University, that's who!!

Anyway, after our orientations we went to the post office so that I could open up my post office bank account (apparantly their ATM cards work everywhere and the post office banks are open later). After filling out the form, I went to open the account with the money I had left in travelers checks. Now remember.. this is Japan, so nothing is ever as easy as that. Apparantly, the post office does not exchange travelers checks like I was told. I'm running out of the initial money that I had exchanged so of course I'm like.. "Oh shit........" The guy tells me to run down to the bank down the street to exchange them and come back... The time was 2:56.. all regular banks in Japan close at 3 p.m. So I'm like running down the street staring blindly at the signs realizing that I don't remember the character for bank.. don't know which direction he wanted me to go in etc... SO.. in short.. no bank account today.. ha ha ha

After the bank fiasco (because anything administrative in Japan that I've gone through so far is a fiasco.. ha ha ha), we (Sarah, Daniel, Ky-lee, and me) decided to go to Mos Burger... Japan's deluxe fast food hamburger joint. Their claim to fame is THE Mos Burger.. which is a hamburger with like spaghetti sauce on it and tomato and cheese... Of course, I wasn't feeling as adventureous today as I was yesterday, so I decided to just have a chicken sandwich fries and onion rings and coke and a shake. ha ha ha All in all, I ended up pretty full. ha ha ha

After Mos Burger, we went to Tower Records in Shinjuku. I swear they love American hip hop here more than Americans do. ha ha ha Kanye West and Common are being heavily promoted here as well... See my pics :)

After Tower Records, we went people watching in the same square where we meant the Japanese monkeys (See prior post about SPBW and friend). There we watched television with everyone else on the bigscreen on one of the buildings. See pics :)

After that, we went to eat AGAIN. This time we ate at one of those SUPER cheap fast food Japanese places where you have to stand and pretty much inhale all your food and get out of the way for the salarymen (business men) who are eating quick on their way back to their overtime work. I also took pics of that.

After the fast food (which gave me heartburn because I ate too fast.. ha ha ha), we went to an arcade and played a few video games. Then we (Daniel, Sarah, and I) decided to do "purikura" which is one of those photo booths where you get the sticker pictures or whatever. The one we did was UBER crazy... It had music and poles you could hang from for poses and shit... It had two cameras and you totally had to pose like rockstars. I'm going to scan the pictures and put them on here later. CRAAAAZY.. ha ha ha

After that we decided to come home... in the meantime Sarah and I rated all the hot Japanese guys on the train. Wow.. sooo many hot Asians.. ha ha ha okok I'll stop. lol

I'm going to hit the sack now. Got the opening ceremony at school tomorrow morning.
Bye bye~~