a journey of 1000 miles.....

Today was first day of orientation, let me tell you....so freaking stupid and took all day too, what a load of crap.

again woke up at 7:30 scared that my phone was going to be the wrong time for some reason so went out and it turns out it was the right time after all, who knew right? well noone else was up so i went and had a shower, check emails and then went to the kitchen. Some of the guys were already up and cooking eggs and whatever, i have still yet to attempt cooking in the communal kitchen yet....i bought some spaghetti yesterday that i will have to use one time, especially since the bananas that i bought yesterday have gone brown overnight and i had to chuck them out. Other than that I have custard cakes and cookies in my fridge to ease hunger pangs when they occur.

By about 8:30 we were all congregating in the genkan and split into bike people and bus people.....iright now i am still a bus person, even though it costs almost 6 dollars a day and its not that far away......problem with bike though, especially for someone so noob like me, is that although kyoto is mostly pretty flat, there happen to be 2 hills between my dorm and the uni....sob

so anyway we all met at the uni and went and got some introductory crap lots more papers to file away.....then they spoke for ages about general stuff and by then it was lunch time so we went off the cafeteria. which is super nice btw, lots of nice stuff. after lunch was our entrance ceremony which was just 2 super suck up nerds who volunteered to read speaches in japanese....they sounded like total wankers talking about 'trying our best' and 'striving to achieve common goals'....vomit

then we had people from the police station come ttalk to us.......these four old ladies (who were super cute) were talking about how to hold your bag to avoid it getting snatched.....kinda stupid like we dont know that already. then the police's judo trainer was teaching us self defense moves.......he said the best way to get people to help you isnt to yell HELP but to yell FIRE.

then there was the earthquake simulator which was majorly disappointing....it was just some truck that shook a bit, i didnt even go on it....me and some of the other I-House peeps decided to ditch it and go home.

So here I am, I have one more day of orientation tomorrow, which includes my placement tests :S......but then after that is weekend and then 3 public holidays in a row and they dont hold orientation, so i will be off until next thursday for 2 more days of orientation, classes start the monday after.

So i suppose without my bloody laptop working i will be bored as blah......my dad said he would send an adaptor for me seeing as im having no luck here....oh well

later days

Jono