Friday, September 12, 2008

Random Things

Eliza, Jacqueline, Me, and Lisa

Yeah, so I haven't been keeping up to good with what I've been doing. These last couple of days have been an intense blur of non-stop meetings and ridiculously hard tests. The study abroad students had to take placement tests this week to see what level of Japanese they would be placed in. Surprise, Surprise...I am so smart that I got put in the 1st level of Japanese, which is actually the next level I needed, thank goodness! Most Americans got put into the first level, even though they studied longer than me. The levels go up to 5, which is pretty much fluent. Only Koreans and Chinese students reached level 3 or more. Darn Americans!

I'm pretty worn out from all these (dare I say) pointless meetings. So long! I haven't really done too much not dealing w/ school. I have been taking walks in the evenings to clear my head; and if I get up, running in the morning.



At Hibino station in Shirotori. We're on our way to Oasis 21: Jacqueline, Dustin, & Matt.

A couple of days ago, we went to Oasis 21, at the Osu station. I still don't know what it is, but it's been described as a building that looks like a spaceship--very futuristic looking. It was incredibly awesome. There was even a famous makeout park. We climbed up an insane amount of stairs and took lots of pictures on the roof. Then, we took a ride on a nearby ferris wheel. A frickin huge ferris wheel attached to a building! It was all great fun. I'm waiting for some more later! *wink wink* (p.s. very clean)



The one we went on after we left the Oasis 21 station. I have no clue what city we were in though. Very big and mucho scary!!


This is the view from the top. Keep in mind that this thing is latched on to the side of a 7-story building. lol We saw really drunk Japanese guys dancing and doing karaoke...mucho hilarious :)



This is why Japanese people are so skinny! There are stairs like these everywhere and then we had to walk 6 more flights of these to get to the top!!


This is one of my tomodachi, Arvidas from Canada. And yeah, that is a frickin dinosaur covered in Christmas lights behind him.


These are the coolest pimps in Japan! Clockwise: PiPi (Korean), Eliza, Arvi, & Byron.

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