OK, I have to have a journal for my class of like every day that I'm in Japan. i'm going to double up and have my blog posts be my journal entries. Yay!
Okay, Monday was my first day of classes. We took a placement test, which I thought was really hard. A lot of the questions had to do with pronoun uses and small words that I never learned in High School, but they assume you've learned by the time you start second-year college Japanese. I also had an interview which wasn't as bad. I've noticed that I can usually understand whats being said, but I can't really respond, or i'll miss a word key to understanding.
After class we went to the Prefecture (kinda like state government) office to get some scholarships. We got to go to the observation deck on the 19th floor and got a great view of the city. The place isn't all that amazing, and the pollution kinda blocked the view, but I could see the Sea of Japan(?) and the mountains. i'm glad this place has mountains, it makes any place better.
I went to a giant electronics store afterwards to try and find a computer cord, but alas HP computers aren't sold in Japan apparently. It wasn't at the store, or at any surrounding stores. As tyson says, phooey.
Also had a difficult time getting home. My host mom had very nicely come with me in the morning to show me the way to the bus stop and which bus stop to get off on. But on the way back I went to Kanazawa station, which had approximately 2000000 buses going through it at any given time. And bus schedules are confusing enough in english, they were ridiculously difficult to decipher in japanese. But luckily, I managed to find my way back after 45 minutes.
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