it has been long

[uzauza]

i have finished putting all my things away. it is very strange being alone home here now. i hope i will run into someone who remembers i remember.

japan already looks very different when i can read most of  some of  a few of the street signs. in nagoya we were not supposed to leave school without senior older students, and most people at the dorms were changing  switch  also from other countries. i am not sure where to go to find something good to drink. can i ask one of you  someone?

i've been trying to brush up on my japanese, but its definitely more difficult than my practice books. i would like to practice, but if im more understandable in english to people that is okay too. maybe that is easier for people who can speak it? 

(ooc: strikethroughs are alternate phrasings or words he couldn't remember that didn't actually make it into the post. italics are things typed in english.)

Comments

[xyzai]

You don’t know how to get to school yet? For that, you can maybe try: http://www.hyperdia.com/en/.

I know that Keio university is near Tamachi station on JR. The Oedo and Asakusa subway lines also run close. Where do you live?

Probably he knows. Let me know, I want to try their red bean taiyaki and soft cream.

Nobody expected the thing with the nipples. Do you mean that since you understand, the people you knew are different than you imagined? Or just the things that they talk about are different than what you thought?

[uzauza]

the site is useful and smart, i am thankful.

i am near the ebisu station. i am not so sure about the specifics because my parents were the ones who chose the room, but i think it was said the station should make travel not so bad.

i will ask him and we can see if he will take us there.

i think it is that i was often not sure what the people of camp were talking about. even though i was there for some time, because i could not understand many things i think i may have assumed things were different than they have been? people talk about japanese culture as being more inwards modest, so i was surprise.

[xyzai]

Then it is probably cheaper and easier to take JR Yamanote line.

Ebisu is a good location. Very close.

Maybe some are, maybe some aren't. Isn't it more interesting that way?

[uzauza]

i have written it on the note. i think i am figuring the route now.

where do you live, zaizen-san?

it is not a bad thing. i think it will be better to get to know the people when it will be unexpected, so that i will see more new things.

[xyzai]

I live farther away, closer to Saitama, in discount housing. It’s not bad.

Now you can take part, too.

[uzauza]

you are one of the people who live in groups? it sounds interesting also.

i will think of thanks the next time i am in a conversation about nipples, lactating or loins.

[xyzai]

It can be. I only live there because it’s cheap.

Because then you know that you should get out of that conversation?

[uzauza]

i think the phrase is to make the best of things, yes? it seems you are there with nice people.

because then i do not waste time translating things that are weird to respond to.