木曜日, 5月 18, 2006
so... my day started at 6:00 because i can't seem to sleep until i want to get up, but at least today that was only half an hour before i really wanted to wake up.
class was from 8:30am to 9:30pm.
ok, so on wednesday, I walked to school around 11 or 12, as my first class started at 3 and i felt like walking. It was raining but it was warm and nice.
There were some crazy vans on the road with speakers shouting things. apparently they were just some sort of political party trying to drum up support.
when walking to school, you pass this floral shop called "and one." every time i kept thinking it was familiar, but today i realized that it's the name of some basketball-related company in the states. i remember when barry went to basketball day camp or whatever that was and he won some contest or whatever and got and1 shoes or some such nonsense and he thought it was such a big deal and i'd never even heard of the company. yeah. that was when i knew i was officially out of the loop. but meh. here's an and one flower shop.
when walking, if you see the DHC building, you know you're almost there. the road that leads to school is pretty much a straight shot from the akasaka weekly mansion. you literally turn twice. and so when you get on the last road, you walk for about 30 min and then you're there. so, when the road curves and you can finally see the DHC sign, you know you're at school...almost. the building is across the street from DHC.
ok, this was the cutest thing i've seen in japan. It was raining and this woman put her dog in a raincoat. he kept shaking of his hood and she had to fix it.
mom, i figured you'd like this.
yay, the puppy got his hood on.
and then i got to school!
it's in an office building. TUJ has the first 6 floors, the rest are "haunted" and by that i mean we're not at all allowed to go there. but haunted sounds cooler. (right?)
They replaced the TUJ flag with a sign. i guess since it rains so often, nothing stops for it. it doesn't really rain hard. mostly sprinkles. but it does it all day long.
so...then i had class at 3. that was the stupidest class ever. seriously. there were two teachers and they were crazy german robots. They were terribly unorganized and were teaching an introductory course to japanese history/culture but expected us to know enough about it to pick a topic for a paper that we'd be writing at the end of the semester that day. craziness. yeah. also, they spoke really really quietly. so, it was really hard to hear them. that's the class i dropped.
then i went home via metro.
look at all the kinds of metro art at that station:
yes. it is a turnip.
oh, and in the mornings, they have a women only platform.
here's some more information about it for those interested.
yeah, apparently this is why they needed a women only car. i believe the pic is self-explanatory. it's also the scariest picture i've ever seen except for the jennie henszey pic of the old man in the clost. but it's same caliber picture.
oh, so when i get off the metro, there's a starbucks. haven't been there yet. resisting the urge for too much caffeine.
and there's this place on the way back that has lions and a fountain at the gate. i have no idea what it is, maybe a resturant or someting, but it's got lions.
grrrrr
rarrrrrr
this is the first entrance to akasaka weekly mansion...and by entrance, mean exit only.
ok, this is really blurry, but that wasn't the point. the point of this pic was the sky. look at it. it's very grainy but it's very light. the sky in tokyo is actually that light. I don't use a flash at night because of the light pollution. there are so many lighting fixtures here and from the $10k colloquiqum thing, I'm familiar with efficient lighting fixtures and elminating light pollution. and well... apparently the whole of Tokyo isn't. it's never ever dark outside. especially because of the rain, all the light just bounces back off the low clouds.
yay, it's my entrance to the weekly mansion. yatta!
and that was wednesday.
[fin.]
class was from 8:30am to 9:30pm.
ok, so on wednesday, I walked to school around 11 or 12, as my first class started at 3 and i felt like walking. It was raining but it was warm and nice.
There were some crazy vans on the road with speakers shouting things. apparently they were just some sort of political party trying to drum up support.
when walking to school, you pass this floral shop called "and one." every time i kept thinking it was familiar, but today i realized that it's the name of some basketball-related company in the states. i remember when barry went to basketball day camp or whatever that was and he won some contest or whatever and got and1 shoes or some such nonsense and he thought it was such a big deal and i'd never even heard of the company. yeah. that was when i knew i was officially out of the loop. but meh. here's an and one flower shop.
when walking, if you see the DHC building, you know you're almost there. the road that leads to school is pretty much a straight shot from the akasaka weekly mansion. you literally turn twice. and so when you get on the last road, you walk for about 30 min and then you're there. so, when the road curves and you can finally see the DHC sign, you know you're at school...almost. the building is across the street from DHC.
ok, this was the cutest thing i've seen in japan. It was raining and this woman put her dog in a raincoat. he kept shaking of his hood and she had to fix it.
mom, i figured you'd like this.
yay, the puppy got his hood on.
and then i got to school!
it's in an office building. TUJ has the first 6 floors, the rest are "haunted" and by that i mean we're not at all allowed to go there. but haunted sounds cooler. (right?)
They replaced the TUJ flag with a sign. i guess since it rains so often, nothing stops for it. it doesn't really rain hard. mostly sprinkles. but it does it all day long.
so...then i had class at 3. that was the stupidest class ever. seriously. there were two teachers and they were crazy german robots. They were terribly unorganized and were teaching an introductory course to japanese history/culture but expected us to know enough about it to pick a topic for a paper that we'd be writing at the end of the semester that day. craziness. yeah. also, they spoke really really quietly. so, it was really hard to hear them. that's the class i dropped.
then i went home via metro.
look at all the kinds of metro art at that station:
yes. it is a turnip.
oh, and in the mornings, they have a women only platform.
here's some more information about it for those interested.
yeah, apparently this is why they needed a women only car. i believe the pic is self-explanatory. it's also the scariest picture i've ever seen except for the jennie henszey pic of the old man in the clost. but it's same caliber picture.
oh, so when i get off the metro, there's a starbucks. haven't been there yet. resisting the urge for too much caffeine.
and there's this place on the way back that has lions and a fountain at the gate. i have no idea what it is, maybe a resturant or someting, but it's got lions.
grrrrr
rarrrrrr
this is the first entrance to akasaka weekly mansion...and by entrance, mean exit only.
ok, this is really blurry, but that wasn't the point. the point of this pic was the sky. look at it. it's very grainy but it's very light. the sky in tokyo is actually that light. I don't use a flash at night because of the light pollution. there are so many lighting fixtures here and from the $10k colloquiqum thing, I'm familiar with efficient lighting fixtures and elminating light pollution. and well... apparently the whole of Tokyo isn't. it's never ever dark outside. especially because of the rain, all the light just bounces back off the low clouds.
yay, it's my entrance to the weekly mansion. yatta!
and that was wednesday.
[fin.]
