Day 84 and 85: A new bike and Japanese Cinema!

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Thursday 29th of April

So today I slept for sooooo long! I actually slept for so long that I got tired, haha. I read in my japanese grammar book and practiced some vocabulary. The time flew by and it was already time for dinner. I took the train to Suidobashi to meet Jimmy at his Uni. We then went to Watami to eat. After dinner I went home and cought up to the two latest episodes of Supernatural season 10. Only a few more episodes till season finaly! So exciting~~ 

Friday 1st of May

The last day before Golden Week! :D I had Sustainability Studies for 2. period, but forgot to read the reading assignment... Since I have 4,5 hours to spare until the Social change in Japan-class. My mentor was being awesome to show me around the Sport campus. I got to take a look at the timetable, when I can use the different parts. I can go whenever there is marked pink:

After the tour we went to Asahi bike store to buy a bike. And Since my mentor is the kindest mentor he bought the bike for me. I'll use it till I'm done at Uni and then he will continue to use it. I'm so lucky! Now I can take the bike to school without thinking about buying and selling! And he did it all on his day off! I couldn't thank him enough! 

A little lunch before the Social Change in Japan-class

After Uni, I met up with cutie Anika to eat dinner and then go to see Cinderella in the cinema

I have never been to a Japanese cinema before, so I was very excited to see how it was! The entrance is very cosy and simple. 

In the far back you can buy candy, soda etc, and you can smell the delish caramel pop corn even before entering~ *drools*

 Then you get in line to the machines

 Then you order your ticket and select your seats. I didn't pay attention to if you can chose english on ht machine or not... 2 tickets for Cinderella coming up! It was 1100 yen per ticket.

 Timetable + machines

 And this is the room. And the first thing that striked me was: IT'S SO CLEAN! Not a single pop corn were to be found (even after the movie). It was so nice! The movie was in english with japanese subtitles (thank god). The only annoying part was that the lights doesn't turn on during the credits, so you end up sitting there till the end. Of course you can go if you want, but I didn't wan to risk falling in the dark.

The movie was done 21:15 and I took the bike home. It took me about 40 minutes, because I was messing around campus on my search for the river. Once I found the river it's just following it straight to my house! It's so cool! It's almost no hills at all, so I'm looking forward to take the bike to Uni. I didn't understand how to turn on the lights on my bike so I rode in blind, haha. So dark! But I got home safe ^_^

Day 56 and 57: Moving out and First day at TMU

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Thursday 2nd of April

So today I had everything packed and was ready for inspection from one of the staff members. It went fairly quickly because everything was in order. The only "problem" was all my luggage! All of the luggage in the picture is mine (except the boxes to the left). I actually had to borrow Jimmy's blue suitcase to fit all my stuff....Done a little too much shopping? I think so too... Jimmy had to come with me because he helped me with my luggage. He's way too nice. I actually had to let a few things stay with Steffi, haha. 

 Either way, with some pain on the way we managed to take 3 different trains to Seiseki Sakuraoka station and meet up with the others. They were students that are attending SATOMU: Semester Abroad at Tokyo Metropolitan University which is going to live in the same Share Place as me. We ate lunch on the way before coming to the house.

This is how it looks on the outside:

This is from the hills:

We got some papers to fill out, got to know the rules, got keycards, saw the building and where everything was etc. After that we could finally put our stuff into our rooms. This is how my room is:

 I really like it! It's awesome :D The neighborhood is very beautiful:

We later went to Daiso and the supermarket to buy some stuff we need. I bought some cloth hangers, boxes, slippers etc and breakfast for tomorrow:) We also bought Japanese curry and made that for everyone. It was very good!

After dinner we stayed in the kitchen and talked. Many new faces showed up and we got to know them as well :) Everyone speaks (at least a little) Japanese, so that's making it easier for everyone too.
I was one of the first to go to bed because I was so tired. I managed to clean a little while skyping with Jimmy before going to bed at 22:00.

Friday 3rd of April

So I woke up very early, around 7:00... I was tired but couldn't fall back to sleep. So I got up, took a shower, got dressed and headed to the kitchen to eat breakfast. 

While being in the kitchen I ended up chatting with some of the other residents there (that's not SATOMU). It's a good way of speaking Japanese, even though I have to ask or say something in english. After eating I continued to clean my room and studied some Japanese. Then I met up with some of the others to eat lunch near the station:

 Then we met up with some of the others that didn't join us, to go to the University. At the university we met up with other SATOMU students that live different places. IT WAS SO WINDY!!! 

 Here are all the SATOMU students

I talked to some of the other students, but as far as I know I'm the only one from Norway. Everyone seem to be nice so I think we'll work well together. I especially talked with a Japanese girl, she was way too cute! 

We then got inside and this was my "seat" with a student card and information. We were here around 14:30.

It was a lot of different information that took a while. We then got a break before taking our Japanese test at 17:00. I got my very one tutor! Everyone got one, so that's very nice. The tutor is a regular student that is going to help you. It can be practicing Japanese, or maybe you have questions about school or certain topics. When it was breaktime we went to Subway to eat lunch. We then went back and I got ready for the test. My tutor went home at this point, but e added each other on Line, so communication will go smoother. I have NEVER taken any type of Japanese test, so I though it was hard enough to understand what to do, haha!!! But I wanted to try the N4 lever which is the next lowest one. (N5 is the lowest). I though it was difficult, because I haven't really been studying properly... But I actually got 45% correct! Too bad I need 70% to actually take N4 level~ So either way: I'm taking the lowest level with around 6 others. 3 students didn't take the test because they can't any Japanese, but 2 others took the same test as me, but scored lower. So I'm a little motived by being the best of the worst, hahha!! No, I'm just kidding. But I really hope I'll be able to try to get on a higher level soon. Now it's really time to study!   After the test the others went back to the house while I took the train to meet Jimmy :) Tomorrow I'm meeting Steffi and we're going to have fun at the Omori House :)

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