I guess this is a good way to tell about my struggles and achievements as an Erasmus student to those of you who are interested in knowing what´s happening in my life.

úterý 5. září 2017

Second day

-          When I arrived at the Hiroshima airport, a lady from the international office and two new Taiwanese exchange students awaited me there. A big car with a chauffeur took us to the dorms. There was complete silence on the one-hour drive so that was a little awkward but my tiredness was stronger.
-          When we arrive at the dorms, there are several students who came to greet us and show us around. It´s nearly midnight. This is an international house and so most of the students are also exchange students but all of them speak Japanese now. Then there is one girl who introduces herself “I am the Japanese person of this house.” <3
-          This Japanese girl then takes us outside and shows us the door code. 練習。Now practice. And all of us go and try the code and open the door. <3 Then we all go to the nearest conbini store. I had been waiting for this.
-          Rachel (a lovely girl from Arizona who came to Japan 5 months ago and has learnt to speak fluently already) and a Korean girl Jouhyon (?) show me how the Japanese beddings work and how to recycle. They are super nice and talk slowly to me, I can even understand them! I am very slow to reply though and probably very unintelligible and so Rachel asks if she should speak in English. And so now I cheat and speak in English with Rachel. I do try Japanese with everyone else though.
-          I lost the paperwork I got from the international center about two hours after I got it. And so I ended up going through the trash on the dark kitchen balcony at night, finding nothing. Fortunately, Rachel found them and took them. On the top of the first page it says なくさないでください。Please don´t lose this.
-          Everyone is super nice and helpful. I was worried earlier to live in an international house that everyone would speak English and it would be hard to meet Japanese people. I am so happy now as everyone does speak Japanese and everyone is super friendly and helps with everything.
-          I met my buddy Rina and she showed me how to get to the train station, where to buy the bus card and where hangers and recommended some food in the store. おすすめ。 We talked in Japanese for several hours. Well, she talked and then there were my poor attempts to sound Japanese.
-          No food looks familiar except for some vegetable. I take pictures of the food I eat so that I can find it again in the store later.
-          The international office lent me a functioning adaptor (?) and my buddy Rina helped me order the same one. Maybe I will end up having functional technology after all.
-          After everyone telling me that it is very difficult to find a free Wi-Fi in Japan, several people here have tried to persuade me that I don´t need a Japanese number or sim card with internet data. The lady from the international office tries to measure with a ruler how long my sim card is anyway <3

-           Orientation days start tomorrow. And the placement test.

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