I'm gonna be honest: I'm suddenly hittin' the brakes here on the mood. Kinda. It's a big enough change that I noticed the first day it happened. I left home, which had crappy cold weather, to come here to crappy cold weather. I left home knowing many names and faces and being alone, to come here and learn many new names and faces and still be alone. I left home after staying quiet to avoid bothering my "roommate," to come here and continue being quiet to avoid bothering my roommate.
Ehh, who knows. Probably just a slump til classes start. I'm just not gonna pay it any mind and continue as normal, screw the mood trying to drag me down. I was expecting this, thanks to that weird U thing for homesickness. You get somewhere new, everything is amazing, then you crash, then you level out. Well, it's not gonna get me!
So, let's see, some unique stuff for the readers. Well, I was eating alone in the cafeteria, kinda a regular thing (I get to look down the mountain at the mind-blowing city below, so no complaints), when I hear someone. In Japanese, "Are you alone, sir? May I sit here? Do you speak English, sir?" To which I respond with all yes, because why not. I was supposed to leave thirty minutes after he sat down (I was playing games with some friends, something we'd planned to do for a week). I ended up home twenty minutes late. He was so intent on practicing English. He asked many basic questions, and we never even learned each others' names. It was all opinions and tips and spelling. It was certainly an experience. When the staff asked us to leave, since the cafeteria closes at 1:30, he gave me chocolate from the school store next door as a thank-you.
Then the second shopping tour. I'd paid in advance, then learned there was a free one before this one. So, as I left two days ago on the second shopping tour, I didn't need a thing. I was just going to get out of my room, something I try to do as often as possible. One of the many reasons was possible interest in one of the female participants, but let's leave that aside. I spent most of the day on the bus, in a huge mall I didn't know existed, discussing the changes in Kyoto Animation Studio's style changes over the years, and was home before I knew it. Since no one else but a certain group leader had a camera, I took the opportunity to take pictures of that person, otherwise there'd've been no pictures of the photographer.
The mall itself was a lot like the one near me back home. The group that hosted us, taking us around town, had a game prepared for the first thirty minutes we were there. We had to find a matching image to a picture they gave us (like a picture of a certain shirt) then take a picture of the image ourselves (find the shirt and snap!). My group came in second, which I'd have to blame on half of us not really caring, since we searched fast and walked slow. We had good food for lunch, wandered around some other stores, then went home.
Now I'm just waiting for the floor washing machine to be open so I can do laundry.
