Alien and Bike Registration day (Monday, September 6th, 2010)

So today I had a little adventure with the bus system. I left for campus all on my own this morning around 9:00 to handle bicycle registration. I also tried searching for my pair of glasses I lost but they haven't turned up yet. Things usually turn up around here, but the CIE staff said that maybe since I lost them at the end of the week last week the cleaning staff may have just not turned them in yet. I'm going to check again tomorrow.

After all that I sat outside CIE to wait for Matt and Amanda so we could all go to Alien registration together. They were a little late, but it didn't matter because none of us had anything schedule wise to worry about. We got a small snack and then headed back to Seminar House 4 so they could get their pictures they had accidentally forgotten.

Then we hopped on a bus and went to Hirakata Station (Hirakata-shi eki). Once we arrived at the station we turned the map around in different directions until we decided where we needed to head to get to the city hall. We did pretty good and it only was a 3 minute walk or so to go from the station to the Hirakata City Hall. The whole process was short and simple.

After that we walked around the station for a few minutes and visited a little store called Kiddie Land that had all sorts of awesome Disney, Hello Kity and other adorable character stuff. Then we caught the bus back. They got off at the actual campus stop, but I decided to take my chances and try making my way to the actual Seminar House 1-3 stop. It was so easy. I felt very accomplished that I was able to traverse the Keihan line on my own with success.

I feel like I could easily make my way about town now without someone to help me. Next challenge shall be to make it around Kyoto on my own. Anyhow that is it for today. Tomorrow my actual classes start. I have Japanese reading/writing followed by spoken Japanese in the morning from 11:00 - 12:50.

Then from 13:15 to 14:45 I have Religion in Japan. After that I am done for the day again. ^_^
Sadly haven't heard about my speaking partner yet, but I should tomorrow because I believe that is the last day for speaking partner notification.