There’s not much to say about today… well, I went to an Indian restaurant with Rachel, one of the Polish girls (I’ll call her June), a Japanese guy (Takashi), a Korean girl (Yuu), and an Indian guy (Singh). I ate so much, and drank so much, that I felt like an inflated water balloon when we were walking back up the hill towards campus.
It was fun. We were pretty loud in the restaurant. There came all sorts of starters, starting with some spiced fruits (apple, orange and pineapple), then a load of meaty things and pakora and so on, and samosa (definitely more real than the weird pastry things you get in TESCO, though I have to admit I like them in that style), and that turned out to only be the starter. They then gave us a HUGE platter of naan, in 3 flavours: potato, garlic, butter. Two types of curry to choose from: a vegetable yoghurt curry (with a bit of renkon in it, that Rachel stole.., meehhhh), and a meat chicken curry. Then for dessert, mango ice cream. I really couldn’t move by the end. We also had mango smoothies on da house.
So much fooooood… but it was delicious. So anyhow, a good experience, and apparently there’s a good Mexican restaurant around here too. Banzai!
June chatted to me a bit because she works at the company where I have an interview, so if I manage to get work there, she will become my sempai! I don’t call anyone sempai here. I suppose Risa’s kind-of my sempai if she was already here a year… and other students who’ve already been here a while? I don’t know. Maybe when I return to England and rejoin the Japanese society I can call the fourth-years “sempai”. Hehe.
So yeah! I guess I really am a third of the way through the year now. I could say Day 117 is the day, but if I have to come home early to work as a subwarden, then I’m probably well over a third of the way through.
Okay, if 116 is a third, that means I have 232 days left, which would be the 241st day of the year, which is apparently August 29th. Yeah, I’m probably going to have to come home before that. Or not. Depends on whether I land the job or not.
I’ve calmed down a bit on wanting to stay in Japan an extra year. I think I should just my year abroad as the less stressful, more fun experience, rather than drag it out and possibly spoil it. It helps that I now have plans for what I’m going to do when I return. And then I can always come back. I still don’t know if I want to do more studying. Maybe do a year course in Tokyo University, and then start working, or just start working immediately. Either way, I’m going to save up a lot of money during my last two years.
The world is my oyster~~~~
Anyway, much to do! Goodnight.
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