Shopping!

JLI started. I got placed in intermediate class D. (Exactly in the middle, there are 3 classes above me and 3 classes below.) So far it's been easy. I'm not sure if it's just starting out easy and it'll get harder or if this class is too easy for me. We'll see. I went to Akihabara for the first time yesterday. So many electronics! I didn't get anything. The Yodobashi Camera store was gigantic...and me and my friends were like...half of the girls in the whole store. I think I'll probably go back just to play around, especially since its free with my commuter pass. Last night I just got to relax and not do anything. I went to the grocery store and bought a bento and maguro nigiri. It was only around 800yen. (As requested, pictures of what I eat. Heehee.)




After class today, I met up with Eunice, who studied at Sophia University all last year. We went to eat at an italian place and then went to visit the school. I didn't have my camera with me, but I will be taking pictures of the school next time I'm there. The campus is pretty small, but the buildings are tall. It's definitely not wide open or frilly and landscaped like UCI. Eunice helped me get my teiki (commuter pass) so I don't have to keep putting money on my Suica card (Super Urban Intelligent Card, haha). That way a whole month of transportation back and forth froom school will only cost 5040yen instead of around 400yen a day. After that, we went to Kinshicho to shop. I finally bought a new wallet that fits yen. No more toting two wallets! We went back to Kameido and shopped around there too, which is where I got the strap for my camera. It has a cute little bird on it. And finally, a shirt from UNIQLO. It's the one designed by Jessica Michibata (model...I read her blog sometimes on honeyee.com). Guess how much I spent: pencil case, au phone, camera case, camera strap, wallet, shirt. [100yen, 1yen, free, 630yen, 2625yen, and 500yen!] Things in Japan can be expensive, but things aren't turning out as badly as I expected.