My, it’s a blustery day outside.

Soooo, updates. Yay. (I swear, I’m going to start doing this daily instead of weekly)

I biked to Jusco last Saturday, which takes roughly 30-45 minutes by bike, so definitely too long to walk. Ichinoya’s pretty nicely situated when it comes to classes, but you have to catch the bus to Tsukuba Center because otherwise it’s just a pain in the butt. I managed to get my bike fixed there, which fortunately was free. Let me tell you, the last thing I wanted to hear from the repair guys was “impossible,” which they said at one point, then told me they couldn’t do it, then said it’d cost 60-70 dollars, and then all they really needed was to straighten the pedal and it worked okay. Hallelujah.

I managed to wipe my computer and reinstall most everything after buying the external for about $140. It’s a Buffalo 1TB external. I’ve never heard of the brand before, but it’s working fine so far *knock on wood*. I really want to just get a new laptop, but I think I’ll save that for next summer, I can just keep stuff on the external for now. Unfortunately the webcam now decided not to work, so I’m going to have to buy a new one of those, but at least they’re fairly cheap.

Mostly I’ve been just going to classes and doing homework recently. Unfortunately, a college student’s life is not particularly adventurous in any country, so I’ll just explain what’s been going on recently.

No there is too much. Let me sum up. </random princess bride reference>

After getting my bike fixed, me and a very very large group of gaijin (with 2 Japanese) took a 45 minute bike ride to Tsuchiura to see the fireworks display. The sidewalks were, how shall I put it, crap. Most of the time we had to ride single file, and several times there was maybe a couple inches between the road, me and a very long drop. When we finally got there we had to “hide” our bikes in the bushes (I say hide, because we weren’t supposed to park there, but there were a ton of other bikes there as well, so I’m going to just assume the police didn’t particularly care), and walk quite a bit away from the bikes in order to find a place for everyone to sit. Gravity unfortunately works just as well in Japan as in America, because we kept slowly sliding down the slope we had managed to snag. Once the traffic had cleared out we were able to grab a seat on the concrete, which was uncomfortable, but at least there were no spiders and gravity wasn’t nearly pulling us into the couple on the ground in front of us.

There was a lot of carnival-type food there, stuff I’d never seen before. There was not a lot of deep-fried food, which honestly I consider a blessing. Most of the food there was stuff I would eat on a daily basis (okay, maybe not daily, but at least my intestines wouldn’t cry out for relief from the clogging). I ate some takoyaki, which is a bit of octopus cooked into a ball of dough and then flavored with various spices. It was pretty good actually, not fishy at all. I also bought a candy apple, and it was yummmmmy

The fireworks were kinda interesting, but really really long. It was over 2 hours of start-stop fireworks, as opposed to the 30-45 minute shows I’m used to. There were the screamer fireworks I haven’t seen in the US in quite a few years, and also a few fireworks had actual shapes like mushrooms or faces, which was pretty intriguing.

Yesterday was a good day though. It had been raining the day before and that morning and I was getting pretty tired of nothing but dreary drizzling skies. And then in my Japanese class, the teacher told us: “There’s a typhoon coming tomorrow. The vice president of the university will take a look at the weather report and tell us whether or not classes will be canceled tomorrow.” I was like “Whut? Seriously? They cancel school for that? I take back everything I just said about wanting sun. RAIN ALL YOU WANT, BLOW WIND BLOW!”

There was no class today due to typhoon. XD

Last night however, was incredibly gross. Laura and I were playing around on my laptop, watching youtube videos and messing around.

Laura and me: Wheee!

Cockroach: Hi there

Laura and me: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It just randomly wandered into my room. Fortunately it went into the box I keep my recyclables in, so there was a frantic bit of recycling and me tossing it out of the box faaaaaaaaaaaar away from the dorm door. Ew. Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew. I will be very happy if I never have to do that again.

I don’t feel like putting up pictures today, so I’ll probably do it tomorrow. I’ll try to smack myself to getting to putting more posts up. I swear I’ll get into the swing of it eventually >.>

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