All night long

I’m not even surprised — Eyobe cut all his classes today. Lol. We’ve been talking about how our grades here don’t affect our grades back in our countries and it’s kinda blech to even put in all that effort. But then again, my pride keeps me from not letting go of my lessons here.

Jampacked day is how I’d describe today.

Class started 9:10. At 10:40, I went to meet Rich in the library to take his Math test (I knoooooooow D: I’ll ask him if he actually knows the stuff).

After that, I studied for my quiz for my class at 13:20. That Math test took me a long time cause I had to study one whole chapter’s worth of Math. Oh logarithm, how I’ve missed you.

Class until 14:50. The class was more chitchat than anything. Our long test is next week Tuesday and we kinda didn’t want to learn anything new before then. 

I had to teach English at 15:05. And then after that, off to work until 21:00. Got home at 22:30 and studied (plus organize my notes) until 00:00. 

After which I talked to my sister for a little more than half an hour — ranting about really random stuff.

P.S. Panic at the Disco’s second album is pure trash. In one of their songs, one of them said, “Sup!” near the end. WTF.

At all

I’ve been downloading new songs recently. I’m getting bored of the old stuff on my playlist. But at the same time, I hate weeding out songs that I don’t like. It’s just too much of a hassle. Meh. 

Every week, I have to teach an English class twice a week. Fourth period of Mondays and Tuesdays. 

Out of my 6 students on Mondays, only 1 came.  They only came to my class once before and already they don’t want me as their teacher. Boo. 

Well, I guess you lose some. 

So I just got a bunch of the exchange students to join in on my class. And it was fun. Too bad for the ones who didn’t come in. 

I don’t know why but I didn’t have that much energy today. I was doing homework! Can you imagine?? That, and organizing my very messy stuff. Boo. 

And my American friend is right. I don’t know why I’m helping him with his Calculus. I guess it’s for all the times that people back in the Philippines have helped me with my homework. He has to take an online Math test tomorrow. We’re going to meet up at the library during second period. 

And now off I go to my lessons.

Shorty

It’s funny how people here treat me like their younger sister. When any one of them is about to say something remotely R-rated, they’d tell me, “Earmuffs,” and I’m supposed to cover my ears. Funny in a silly way. 

I was really pissed at Shibata for being such a retard but this is a battle that I won’t fight. You just have to learn how to choose your battles, apparently. 

Well, since he won’t give me a room near school, I’ll just sleep at Karen’s room. Nyeh! I had to teach this morning so I woke up pretty early. Karen made me breakfast — curry!

So then after teaching Tatsuya, I went back to the dorm near school to hang out with Alan, Yuka and Karen. We biked to Nagoya Station. It’s my first time riding my bike there and it wasn’t far at all! 

 I like how the trees are starting to turn orange.

Oh. And something to think about. There’s this guy who’s also an exchange student who keeps a blog. A personal blog but definitely not as personal as how my blog has become. Anyway, when I told him that I chanced upon his blog, he told me that he would like to read my blog. And then I cringed. No way. I wouldn’t want anyone to read my blog. Lately I’ve become more… private (if that’s even possible).

Here’s the rant I posted on my FB

So there’s this girl Chelsea who’s going to be moving in with her bf next week. Or soon anyway. She lives in the annex and the school is still making her pay for the rent. I asked her if I can move to the annex to use her room since she’s gonna be living with her bf and she said yes. And then she told me to ask shibata about it first. So I did. Makes sense right? She’s paying for a room that she’s not gonna use and I’m going to be paying for mine which I don’t want to use.

And you know what he said? He said that since I’m not listed as a resident of the annex, they’re gonna give me penalty points if I stay there. And I told him that that doesn’t make sense. And then he gave me all this crap about how we signed a pledge or something or the other and how we got assigned to this dormitory and blahbullshit and how if you’re a scholar you’re supposed to be here.

Old argument. I’m a JASSO scholar. As far as I know, NGU isn’t the one giving me the money. The only thing they’re giving me is free tuition. And I don’t think they can put that over me since the girl from NGU’s tuition is free too, right? (Let’s just skip the fact that tuition at my school is only 10% of NGU’s.)

I told him, “How come Lachelle and Lisa were able to live at the seminar house?” (Sorry guys, couldn’t help it. I don’t think it can actually affect you negatively. Plus, it’s kind of funny how the two of you didn’t really live at the seminar house. Haha.) And then he goes to say that there was room at the seminar house at that time. And I tell him that there’s room now. And he just tells me about how Chelsea has the room till Dec and that if I wanna move there I need to pay for both rents. And I’m like, “I’m a student. Do you know anyone who will pay ¥75,000 a month for rent?” And he tells me that in Tokyo, rent is that high.

Well we’re not in freaking Tokyo, are we?

And here’s the really wtf part. He told me that if I’m going to get mad, I should get mad at Naoto for having a party and I’m like, “関係がありません.” Duh. Anyone who’s not stupid will tell you that what Naoto did has nothing to do with whatever we’re talking about. And oh my god, can he please let that go? :/

How can anyone be so stupid? How can anyone argue like that? Did he freaking go to school? Freak.

And he kept telling me, “It can’t be helped.”

I was on the verge of telling him, “Are you freaking kidding me?”

So yeah, I’m still going to be commuting to school everyday for an hour. Paying way more for everything — rent, transpo, internet and electricity.

Bring it on

I told you I’d post my homework c: Horribly crammed but I posted it anyway cause it kinda looks like I actually know what the hell I’m doing. 

Work was horrible at first. I was practically falling asleep on my feet. I guess the reason why I was so happy and hyper yesterday was because I drank coffee right before my shift. Add the fact that the girl I work with, Igari (I think), taught me how to collect all the trash in these plastics, separate them, and then bring them down to the trash collection area. The trash wasn’t unpleasant. It didn’t really smell or anything. The trash collection area was a nightmare. I practically didn’t want to go in because of the fact that HUGE RATS WERE CRAWLING EVERYWHERE. DRAT!!!! And Igari was all, “Don’t be scared, they won’t come near you…” But all I really care about was, “HOLY CRAP I HATE RATS I HATE RATS I HATE RATS. THEY’RE FREAKING FRAKING HUUUUUUUUGE!”

But then after that, I got assigned to the kitchen, which was awesome cause I didn’t need to be out in the hall serving people. And then there was eating sushi (one or two pieces) secretly with two of the girls I work with. Secretly meaning we didn’t let our bosses know. They were throwing out the sushi anyway. It’s wrong but we were hungry. At least, I was. I dunno what their motives were. Anyway, it’s supposed to be a secret so SHHHHHHHHH. I got to bond with the people I work with over that little stint. I is happy. 

P.S. I talked to this guy in my school who’s from Peru. He speaks Spanish! I introduced myself in Spanish and was able to answer his questions. Teeheeheeeeee. Sister, you’ll be sooooooo proud of me.

Can you see me as…

… a YouTube star?

Apples

I’ve been cracking the banana joke in Japanese practically all day. You prolly know that joke — you ask, “What’s Beethoven’s favorite fruit?” and you go, “Ba na na na~!” to the tune of one of Beethoven’s works. 

So I ask, Beethovenは一番好きなくだものが知ってる？ 

I think I made people laugh. I’m not sure though.

Great news. 

I think I’m really enjoying work. Like waitressing? I’m finally learning the art of spacing out and not letting the boredom get to me. Not that it’s going to make me more stupid, right? Right?!

So this girl I’m working with is turning 19 on the 29th. I kinda wanna buy her a gift even though we’re not that close. I mean… We talk. With her native Japanese and my broken one. I guess I feel sorry for her. She’s only 18 and already, she’s stopped school. She’s so adorably sad :c 

Once, I saw her in the changing area, sitted on the desk, studying kanji on her own. When I came, she hid her workbook :s I asked Ryuji once why she’s not studying anymore and he just answered, “Personal reasons.” 

So yeah. 

If I can buy myself an iPod, I can certainly spare a few yen for a friend right? She’s always been so nice to me. Always smiling. I’m really lucky that my workplace is so chill — with everyone being so nice. 

I hear about how Ryou’s part-time at the ice cream place and I cringe to think how I’d turn out if there’s a bitchy girl where I work. And then there’s Shin Tan and OShin who used to work for a place that had such a horrible boss that they both quit (I don’t think they got all the money they’re supposed to get). 

Penny for your thoughts?

Guess what!

I’m buying an iPod. I haven’t been this excited since… Err… I dunno. Belated happy birthday and advance Merry Christmas to me :> 

Now I should stop spending so much so that I can afford that trip to Alaska that I want to take. 

I only woke up coughing once last night. Which is good cause my cough is barely bothering me now. 

A few months left and I’ll be home to my REAL LIFE. One that actually affects what I want to be in the future. LOL.

What’s up with you? 

Sometimes I need to learn how to shut up

Cause there will always be people with double standards. Of you. Maybe this is good since caring about what you say means that the person still cares. It might not be the care I want but it will have to do. 

It’s my first day back to school after being “quarantined” for two days. I have the usual stuff. Usual classes. Although I notice that I tend to fall asleep during the period after lunch. I’ll start drinking coffee after lunch. 

Japanese Literature was brutal. I didn’t understand a lot of what she said. And before I have time to look it up on my dictionary, she’s on the next part of the text. Hurrrrr. I guess I have to do a lot of self studying. Melikey.

And oh god, I got reminded of how much I hate dealing with people’s personalities. PersonIwillnotname got mad/disappointed that people changed their minds about going to the bar. And I was like… that’s not my fault. That’s them. And given that, you can’t really blame everyone for being fickle minded. 

I’m bored

I wanna go back home cause of this boredom. It’s as if Japan has nothing more to offer. Or maybe because this part of my life isn’t really part of my life. Like… it’s not related to it? I dunno. 

So everyone’s been getting sick last week. Emiko and Brittany both have swine flu. But it’s nothing major, I think. And my classes have been canceled. That was weird. But in a way, it was good cause I got to rest.