I have been in Japan for a month now. I remember during the Light Fellowship pre-departure orientation meeting, Kelly said that after a month, I would hit the trough of my language learning experience--that I might grow tired and weary of the foreign culture. However, I have only grown to like Japan more and more. Over past month, I've learned so much about the Japanese culture, society, cuisine, and of course, language. It is kind of eye opening because it is so different from both of the cultures that I am familiar with: Chinese and American. I feel that there are so many positive attribute of the Japanese culture that are worth learning. For example, the Japanese people are very hard-working, diligent, and respectful; their society is highly evolved and efficient. Thus, I am definitely very fortunate to be in Japan.
This week we had our first semester final. It was kind of intense because it was 3 hours. But I think I did ok. I think. Maybe it's me, but I think Japanese is getting easier. At least I didn't have to study 20 hours for this final.
This weekend was fun. I went to my first baseball game ever. It's kind of ironic that my first baseball game was in Japan. It was the Tokyo Giants against the Yokohama Baywatchers. We dominated Yokohama. It was great.
After the game, a bunch of us decided to go to a freaking scary bar where they serve all kind of weird but tasty drinks. Since I didn't eat anything amazingly special this week, I use these drinks as substitutes.
And then Liz ate the eyeball. Gross.
Although Japan is an amazing place, everything here is so outrageously expensive. Some of the SUN students are thinking about going to Kyoto next weekend, but a single, one-way Shinkansen train ticket to Kyoto is $130. That is not cool. I guess everyone who live in Japan must be rich (or how do they afford everything?). Seriously, I feel like I'm burning money in Japan because everything here is so expensive.
Well, until next time,
Hans Liang
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