Orientation.

The day pretty much started on a bad sprained foot 'cause yeah well, my period started. I literally felt like a sluggish pile of mud dragging itself the entire day. We went to buy lunch bentos at the Tokyo station and immediately proceeded to Sophia.

Easily three-quarters of the exchange students for this term come from North America, a handful from Europe and even fewer from Asia. The dude hadn't mentioned Australia though; unless he meant that Oz was part of Asia. They wouldn't like that. So the talks and speeches dragged on and on and basically not that helpful, given that they were struggling with their English speech as well, except the Caucasian professor but it was irrelevant to most of us 'cause he teaches the graduate students.

Split into two groups for us to be grouped with our Japanese student guides (why are they called monitoring students?); I was one of the last ones left in the first group. And wtf, DK House people are EVERYWHERE HAHAHA. Anyway, my group's guide, Mei, was really friendly. Her English is pretty good too 'cause her major is English. She told us her mother named her after the character in Tonari no Totoro (LOL) and that she was born in the month of May. Damn, my name could have been January. How cool is that?! January Lee Yi Ching lawl.

Actually, the Yotsuya campus is pretty small; it's probably even smaller than the Parkville campus back in Melbourne and that's saying something. All of us could run into each other; the DK people that is hah! So we went off for dinner after that and went home. I was a rotting pile of compost by that night.


Placement Test and Welcoming Reception

Due to the pretty-early timing of the test and the distant nature between DK and Sophia (lol sounds like two lovers), I had to wake up at 7ish to shower before heading out with Tina. Even so, we were nearly late and just arrived at 10am but the test started at 10.15am anyway so what the heck. Yifen had to take the test too, but in the 'native speakers' room and ended earlier than we did.

So okay, the test. Luckily they are measuring what we know rather than what we do not know. I mean c'mon, if it were a real test with marks and all, I think everyone would either have mugged like crazy, or wouldn't even be there in the first place (I think the latter is more plausible). I didn't even bother to read Part 3 for the advanced level (wtf li jie wen da!!! how to do lah!) and scribbled some nonsense for the composition before handing it all in 45minutes ahead.

We went to find banks willing to open accounts for us and got Mitsui bank. Even so, that took ages and our nice German friend (I think her name is Marlene. Sorry!) translated for us. Poor Tina (the German) was too tired and went home first. Anyway, yay, got that done and our card will arrive in a week. Most people are opening so that they can get the money from their JASSO scholarship. 80,000yen/month wtf unfair, but I couldn't qualify 'cause I'm an int'l student in Melbourne meh.

The reception was pretty fun. Met the usual people and some new ones. The Japanese organizing students tried to get us to play some game, which some of us didn't, myself included. Sorry! Nevertheless, it was pretty enjoyable. There was also some karate demonstration by the karate club. Went for dinner with a couple of new friends. I kept saying that Ji Eun, an exchange student from Korea was cute and Joseph thought that it could be a first sign to finding out that I could be bi. But she was really friendly and approachable; how could anyone resist?! HAHA. okay she's not a tasty cookie wth.

A new day today.
Should be getting our cellphones and commuters' passes and meeting Edward in the evening. Omg haven't seen that fella' since the Ikoma days, which was...February last year.

Oh, it's Saturday.
By the way, I actually don't proof-read what I type here. So if there's some grammatical error or another, whatever, okay?