My time in Saitama is drawing to a close - I will be pleased to leave here because, for one, it is a mark that time here has passed and is getting me closer to leaving for good. Also, I get up to Sendai now and hopefully can talk some sense into people connected with the exchange program... Nahh, who am I kidding?
On the real positive side though, I will have a room bigger than the burrow I've been sleeping in this past six weeks, with my own cooking facilities that I can use any hour of the day, and a landline telephone!! This is exciting because it is cheaper for everyone to call me on a landline than it is to call my mobile.
Also means I can get to the university for free, and in less time than it takes me to travel from Saitama. It did rather annoy me that travelling to Sendai the two times they needed me to since I left to find somewhere to sleep, cost more than six times my monthly rent in Sendai.
Another positive to moving to Sendai is my phone bill can now be sent to me directly, instead of having to rely on Watanabe - kun, the fellow actually paid by the university to help me out in Japan, who has so far been almost completely useless (he did show me where to find food on the university campus, an act that would have taken at least five more minutes without him, so I must be thankful for that). Watanabe - kun posted me my phone bill two weeks after it arrived at his house (which was the first Id heard that it had even arrived at all), and it arrived here for me to read, the day AFTER it was due.
Thanks, Watanabe - kun.
I ask you, would it have been that difficult for me to move into an empty room in the college two months ago? They said it was impossible, then when I squeezed they said there were no empty rooms... but I have my doubts. Sounds far more like a case of "Chotto muzukashii desu ne" (always accompanied by the loudest sound they can manage of sucking air in between their teeth), literally translates as "Thats a little bit difficult" but in fact means "The operating manual does not devote a chapter to this very action, therefore I can categorically state it is impossible".
Had another RAY English Party last night.... wasnt that bad, there was free food and drink at least. I still find it a little surprising that people are willing to pay almost $50 for the privilege of talking to other people interested in doing the same, or to English speakers, who may or may not be there. Greg and Tomtheamerican both disappeared hours beforehand and conveniently showed up half an hour after it was all over. I wonder what Shimada would do if none of his pet gaijin showed up?
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