I haven't posted in awhile and I don't want everyone to think that this story ends with me crying in a bathroom...so here goes a slightly uneventful post.
School has gotten better. I think I'm adjusting. Ten kanji per day is still kind of brutal, but it's somehow getting easier.
Also in case I haven't mentioned this, living in Japan is expensive. The school cafeteria is closed for the next two months (I'm not sure why) so I'm going to have to figure out ways to eat lunch cheaply. This is a challenge because by the time I get out of class I am a ravinous monster and really not the mood to cook. Well, good thing I brought my lunch box to Japan!
Doing laundry in Japan is also kind of annoying. In America, I like doing laundry...it's warm, it smells nice, it's clean. Here, it's time consuming and kind of expensive. A small bottle of Downy (the prefered brand of most people I've talked to) was $13. I'm saying, like 1/4th of the size of my regular $10-bottle of detergent at home. It time consuming because I have a washer, but the world is my dryer. It's not the pastoral fantasy I thought it would be. There is a dryer-place about 7 minutes by foot from my apartment, my only qualm is it's about $3 to dry a load. Oh well, I think I'm going to suck it up and pay. The next week is suppose to be cloudy.
Before I type my next entry, let's hope I do something interesting, for everyone's sake.
Wow. So... you would probably advise bringing detergent from home when I go to Japan?
ReplyDeleteMaybe...my room happened to have some kind of off-brand detergent in it. It's scentless. And the washing machines do a mediocre job, which why i suspect the country appreciates expensive scented detergents. But if you're okay with scentless then don't bring any.
ReplyDeleteBut, here are some money saving tips for going to Japan...
Go on a vegetarian diet 6-days per week in America..you don't want to lose your meat-eating tolerence, but you should get use to eating a lot less meat. Meat costs a lot.
Don't drink a liter of milk per day...I should start following this advice. I'm buying a liter of milk every other day at the rate of $1.75.
Learn where the 100-yen shop (hyaku-en shop) is. Buy stuff there! I swear, outside of that shop goods besides a package of enkoi mushrooms, cost more than 100 yen!
To get a good idea of the prices in Japan, imagine your life if you could only shop at Phil's (though the sushi is cheaper).
why tina no posty no more?
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