Golden Week: Returning to Miyazaki
May 8th
Hello again! Last week was what is commonly referred to as "Golden Week" in Japan. It is basically just three or four hollidays in a row, which makes it the one week that many people get off work during a year (of course excluding the service sector, which flourishes this week). All parks are crowded, every hotel is fully booked...
Anyway, I used this chance to go to Miyazaki. I started the four and a half hour bus ride early in the morning, met up with some old friends, stayed the night...
Jengaaaa~
April 28th
On weekends, we sometimes get together in one of the many common rooms in the dormitory, usually just to talk or study, but sometimes also to do some game or watch TV. I brought a Jenga-game from Norway, and while most of the other guys in our class played DotA (some free online game I don't understand), we had some more traditional fun. Pictures follow!
Lately
April 26th
I meet so many new people lately! I am of course stoked to make a lot of new friends, but I feel really bad when I can't even remember half of the names. Now is the first semester for the Japanese students, so the university is crowded almost all day all week. At first I thought it was a bit annoying, as I hardly ever find a seat in the cafeteria, but my friend Ryan said something that I guess is true: This is what a university should be like. Anyways, the first graders are checking out uni c...
Ohori park with the camera club
April 15th
Yesterday I went to a nearby park with the university camera club! I've been there once before, but it was nice to go there again as it is a really big and beautiful area. The Sakura blossoms are almost gone by now, but a few days of hot weather has given us a bunch of other flowers to look at. It was raining as I left the dorm, so I didn't bother putting on any sun lotion. That turned out to be a bad idea, as my face was red as a tomato when I came back. So much so that some people asked me ...
If I can survive this semester...
April 12th
...then I guess I can do pretty much anything! The other day I registered to all of my classes, and even an extra one to get some more credit. If all goes according to plan (that is, if i don't fail any class), I will have a much more relaxed third semester in Japan. But that is a huuuuuge IF. In addition to not failing my hardest subjects, namely Mechanics B, Linear Algebra A and Electrical Engineering, I have a bunch of classes that require weekly homework and reports. For example, for the ...