There Was, Of Course, Much Confusion

I actually wrote this post yesterday, but it seems that I forgot to actually post it. It's not super exciting, but here you go:

Two of my classes this morning were cancelled because of the typhoon, so that was a plus. On the downside, I had to spend the whole morning working on homework anyways, so it's not like I got to relax too much.

There was, of course, much confusion because there are the strangest rules for when/how classes get cancelled. Even though we were all sent a form telling us how they will cancel the classes, the form was pretty much gibberish in both English and Japanese, so it didn't help. Another thing that didn't help was the fact that the international office texted everyone this morning telling them the wrong information. But I figured it out eventually, so it's all good.

Yesterday I went to a giant electronics store to get a camera, dictionary, and possibly a new phone. I looked at both the cameras and the dictionaries, but there were about a million and a half of them and I really had no idea what I was looking for other than the very basics, so I gave up on trying to buy them. There were some cameras that looked just like others, but they were about $100 more. It probably would have helped if I would have done research before I went and/or if I understood Japanese. Oh well.

On a positive (for me, but maybe not for my parents) note, I ended up getting an iPhone. It's probably going to end up being a lot more expensive than my other phone, but it can access the internet, and has a GPS/train schedule app so I will have to try really hard now if I want to get lost. Just pointing out, too, that the iPhone was one of the cheapest phones they offered with a plan, so it's not like I tried to buy the most expensive phone.

The house has been kind of crazy since my house dad is gone all week. With three little kids, it seems like all they do is argue all of the time, but I guess that's what kids do. I've been trying to help out, but the college isn't helping me with the crapload of homework I have. And now I bet we're going to get a ton tomorrow since the two classes that were cancelled today were my two Japanese classes.

On the topic of Japanese, I can't really tell if I'm getting better at speaking/writing Japanese, but the one benefit I have noticed is after only one week of my kanji class my ability to read things written on signs, etc. has about doubled. If I keep up with the homework, I'm hoping that I'll start to understand a lot more of the written language, which would be awesome. 

Alright, lunchtime!