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If you want to hear the phrase “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” at least seventeen times a day, study abroad. You’ll hear it a lot. I am going to post today’s post, even though I haven’t yet transcribed the two posts previous. So deal with it.

Today I woke up at six thirty and was ready for another delicious breakfast. Today I had lots of corn flakes, ham, oranges, sausages, french fries, bread rolls and more. My newly hectic life is one that makes me very, very hungry apparently. We walked to Waseda again and had some more orientational fun. Three students from previous years explained to us the ropes.

I’m sorry, I have to stop to say that the show that I am watching is the most hilarious show I have ever seen. It seems to be some sort of reality show where an unsuspecting woman’s purse is taken and given to a pervert somehow without her knowing. The next day, the contestant watches in horror in front of a live audience as she watches the day old video of an excitable pervert digging through and fondling all of her belongings with extreme vigor. The live audience roars with laughter at the poor woman, who is now watching in suspense as the crazy man teasingly dangles her toothbrush over his opened mouth, before eventually putting the brush in his mouth completely.

Where was I, ah yes… After the ex-participants finished their speeches I we were split up to go on a tour around Tokyo. First we went to an office where the dorm people had to fill out paperwork. Luckily, I am not in the dorms, so I just hung out with some of the Waseda students and we practiced some Spanish on each other. Next we went to a very tall government building in Shinjuku and I got some good pictures of the city. We finished the tour by going to an Italian restaurant which I can’t remember the name of. It sounded like ‘the gallery’ in Italian or something. I had spaghetti, which had tuna mixed into the sauce instead of ground beef. It was freaking delicious. After the tour I took a quick break at my room before wandering over to the Hub in hopes of finding a group of CSU students ready to drink. I was not disappointed. I had some foreign beers, starting with Guinness and then a Corona (which came complete with a lime slice and all). I talked to some other CSU students, named Sean and Davida, and we are pretty sure we are the three who are going to live at the temple. The three of us went for a walk around in the dark afterwards and talked about our respective academic histories with regards to Japanese language. They have both taken way more Japanese than me, which is not surprising. We came back to the hotel, and with a few extra hours left in the day I decided to throw you guys a bone. I uploaded some pictures to the gallery, so stop hassling me, Patrick.

Grindhouse comes out in a week here, and the previews actually have me really excited again. Sayonara, suckers.

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