おはよう。朝の５時です。
死んでからいくらでも眠れることがわかった。ちなみに昨日も徹夜だった。
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
Finally, my room is clean enough to show the people of the world what it looks like.
Most single person apartment rooms in Japan are “One-Room’ apartments, or what we call in America ‘Studio Apartments’. However being as this is Japan, they’re much smaller. When I picture a Studio Apartment, I imagine a full floor, or at least half a floor of an old building; something with some character. Here in Japan, a one room is usually just deep, and narrow. And that’s what mine is. However since my room is about as old as I am, I was able to get a bigger room than you could normally find for the price.
My door takes you right into the kitchen, attached to which is the bathroom and toilet. The fact that my bathroom and toilet are separate helps to make the room more desirable. Most newer cheap apartments will have a ‘unit-bath’ where the toilet, shower and tub are all in the same room. I’m sure to most people in America that doesn’t sound like a problem, but it is in Japan. Why? Because normally you don’t shower in the tub, you shower standing (sitting actually) next to the tub. This means that the floor all around your toilet will get wet. Not a problem you may think, I’ll just stand in the tub and shower there like I would in America, you say to yourself, but keep in mind that the scale of everything in Japan is much smaller, and the floor around your toilet will get wet no matter what. A unit-bath is just really crowded, so I was glad to get them separate.
My front-door with kitchen and bathroom/toilet access. I have two stove grills, a fridge, a microwave and a rice cooker, but no conventional oven.
Continuing through, we have the middle room. As I said, my room is just long and narrow, so going straight through will take you to the middle room. Nothing much here, just my computer desk/workspace and my closet which you really can’t see. I used to have my bed in the place where the computer is now, but then I got a TV and wanted to have someplace to sit while I watch TV since I don’t have a sofa or anything. If/When I get a sofa, things will be changed around again, but for now this is how they are set up.
The middle room, complete with lots of computer equipment, and just one little laptop computer.
Turn around 180 degrees, and now you’re facing the final room. Actually, it’s not really a room, but just a semi-sectioned off half of the other room. Although the building is older than me, the interiors of the rooms were recently renovated, so they don’t look as old as they really are. I think that originally this was broken into two rooms with sliding doors, but now it’s only partially divided. I like that it is semi-divided though, because it gives you the sense of having more rooms, and allows for you to change your emotion to accommodate whatever it is you’re going to do rather then just always being in the same room.
When I had the bed in the other room, the computer table was next to the TV underneath the window against the wall. If/When I get sofa, it will go in the place of the bed, the computer back under the window, and the bed back into the other room. Then I’ll have the setup I wanted from the beginning. But for now the bed is here, along with the TV and random shoes, skates, and art supplies I have no better place for.
If you look through the windows, you’ll see the outside. My washing machine sits outside, and I hang all my clothes up to dry right there too. You may notice I don’t have any curtains. However I do want to get some, they’re not a top priority because I also have metal shutters that I close at night anyways being as I’m on the first floor and all.
So that’s my room for everyone back home that wanted to see my new apartment, and I guess my room will also be seen by everyone searching for ‘Japanese Apartment’ in Google as well. Good thing I cleaned it up to make it at least a little bit presentable.
人気あるね。昨年度の心理学よりはるかに人気ある。だって今日時間通りに行ったら座れないどころか、教室に入れなかった。仲川先生、教室を隣の大教室に変えてちょー。でなきゃ教務課に変えるようにクレームを出す。
さておき、今日出れた人いない？教科書でいうと、どこをやった？来週はＣＤ合宿で欠席せざるを得なく、最初の二回の内容聞いてなければあとはついて行けるかが心配
今練習が終わって、帰りの電車の中だ。家帰ったらメディアデザインの課題、合宿のことと、そして体育理論のレポートをやらなきゃいけない。そう、体育理論のレポート。みんな知ってると思うけど、この俺は体育理論がなんと保留になってる。先生と相談した結果、レポートを書けばＣにしてくれるって。テーマは、スポーツとデザイン。原稿用紙四、五枚。バカみたい。新たにとりなおした方が簡単そう
Tomorrow I start my second year at my university. I have very few required courses this year, but lots of interesting classes, so I’m taking every design class offered for my course. I’ll be doing things from Typography to Video Editing. Since I’ve already decided what I want to go in to (print advertising), I really don’t need to take all these classes, just the ones that are related to what I want to do — but I’m just too good of a student! I won’t have any classes if I don’t take everything.
We have to take a minimum 20 credits of General Education to graduate. Ideally you want to take them in your first two years because for your 3rd and 4th year you’re at a different campus. But for my graduating class, we’ll spend all four years at the current campus, so it’s possible to take your generals over the course of 4 years. That means that most people will take 8 general education credits their first year, and maybe 6 or 8 their second, leaving the 3rd year for clean-up. But not me, I took 16 general education credits my first year, so I’m practically done. That means that unless I take a lot of unnecessary general education credits, taking only the design courses that are related to what I want to do won’t be enough to give me a full schedule. So I’m taking all of them.
But even that isn’t enough, so I’m taking at least one class from the Architecture course, History of Japanese Architecture. It looks like fun, we get to study about the architecture of temples and shrines, as well as traditional homes and buildings.
I didn’t do well on one of my gym classes, so I’m currently waiting to talk to the teacher to see if I can write a paper or something like that to increase my grade. If I am able to do that, that’ll be one more class I won’t have on my schedule this year, and in turn have to find something to fill the space with.
I’d rather take a full-load in the early years and have nothing but free time my 4th year than have a less-than-stressful schedule for the whole time. It’s not like tuition goes down if you take it easy, so I may as well get everything taken care of now and have time to find a good job later.
And even so, if you take a look at that schedule, you’ll notice a big blank spot. That’s Thursday; I have the whole of Thursday off. Hopefully I can get a weeks worth of work done on Thursday as well as some paying web work, allowing me to keep playing hockey during the year. The ability to do some paying web work is a sticking point for me because I want/need to get at least some new hockey equipment, if not all new gear.
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