Konbanwa, everyone! My next story is actually almost done but there is some trouble with the dorm wifi so I cannot post anything from my computer since yesterday and my sim doesn't support the hotspot thing. Instead I've got lots of photos of my cute suburban neighborhood to share with you for now. Best wishes from Matsudo town!
Konnichiwa, guys! I'm late again but there are just too many things to handle lately. First of all I'd like to thank you for your support and encouraging replies to my first story. I'm still feeling a little bit confused and lonely here so I will be glad to continue hearing from everyone. Even though I met lots of fellow students at the university, there wasn't any time to get to know anyone better and the Japanese seem kinda hard to approach. Nevertheless, I already got several funny stories to tell you + tons of photos.
The first one is about Tokyo University of the Arts, or Geidai, in general. It is different from Politecnico di Milano (or any other university I've been to) in so many ways that I don't know where to start. Therefore, this chapter might be a bit long and if you're not that interested in educational peculiarities of Japan then you can just skim through the photos and wait for my next post about a penguin stolen from Ueno Zoo and an eccentric murder in one of Tokyo's Shinto shrines. It's going to be shorter and more intense, I promise! http://telegra.ph/Just-Do-Your-Own-Thing-04-10
The first one is about Tokyo University of the Arts, or Geidai, in general. It is different from Politecnico di Milano (or any other university I've been to) in so many ways that I don't know where to start. Therefore, this chapter might be a bit long and if you're not that interested in educational peculiarities of Japan then you can just skim through the photos and wait for my next post about a penguin stolen from Ueno Zoo and an eccentric murder in one of Tokyo's Shinto shrines. It's going to be shorter and more intense, I promise! http://telegra.ph/Just-Do-Your-Own-Thing-04-10
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Just Do Your Own Thing
When I went to Geidai at the end of my first day in Tokyo, most of the offices were already closed so I only managed to sign some documents concerning my stay at the dormitory in the administration. It's been already four months since I was officially admitted…
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yes, definitely, continue posting here – 38
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It's finally Sunday and my workshop is over. During the past week I was eating out every day, sleeping without blanket, washing my hands with shampoo and couldn't do any laundry since I had literally no time to look for a good laundry liquid in a tiny convenience store near the station when coming home late. Apart from "new", "tasty", "wonderful" and other doubtfully advertising adjectives, there are no useful English titles on any of the products displayed in the local shops. No, photo translate doesn't help either, as you can see from the screenshot below where I fail to understand what I hold in my hand. It certainly is something more complex than just "lots of brown sugar" suggested in Russian.
So this morning I braced myself and went grocery shopping in a big chain supermarket. I was very lucky that my dormitory neighbors gave me several useful advices and explained the bare minimum of what to buy, so I knew what to look for. The hardest thing, I guess, was choosing from 20 different brands of rice and soy sauce.
Thanks to one of my Japanese-speaking subscribers, I could find the laundry liquid without killing too much time, that's a huge achievement!
Some of you inquired about how my dorm looks like, so here you go: the common kitchen on my floor and a small bonus - my first homemade lunch - udon with soy sprouts, cabbage, dried seaweed, sesame sauce and crab meat, which is amazingly cheap here. It turned out too salty since I had no concept of how intense the soy sauce is in Japan compared to Europe.
Now that I'm settled and have some food in my fridge, I am about to go sightseeing in much praised Aoyama area. I'll tell you about the promised penguin and the murder after I finish, don't worry!
So this morning I braced myself and went grocery shopping in a big chain supermarket. I was very lucky that my dormitory neighbors gave me several useful advices and explained the bare minimum of what to buy, so I knew what to look for. The hardest thing, I guess, was choosing from 20 different brands of rice and soy sauce.
Thanks to one of my Japanese-speaking subscribers, I could find the laundry liquid without killing too much time, that's a huge achievement!
Some of you inquired about how my dorm looks like, so here you go: the common kitchen on my floor and a small bonus - my first homemade lunch - udon with soy sprouts, cabbage, dried seaweed, sesame sauce and crab meat, which is amazingly cheap here. It turned out too salty since I had no concept of how intense the soy sauce is in Japan compared to Europe.
Now that I'm settled and have some food in my fridge, I am about to go sightseeing in much praised Aoyama area. I'll tell you about the promised penguin and the murder after I finish, don't worry!