No Class...

So... no class today. Turns out, there was a faculty meeting. And today was also the senior class's day to register classes. So... no classes.

Sux because I woke up early to make it to school.

I also still have no idea where my classes are.

So instead, I spent the morning going to Yamada Denki, or Yamada Electronics, to shop for games. I got myself a Japanese-English Kanji dictionary for my new Nintendo DS. You have no idea how helpful this thing is. Even though it won't pronounce the Japanese words, it gives the hiragana spellings of all the kanji so I can stumble my way across it fairly well. And pretty accurate English definitions.

I've already used it a lot translating my class guide books. And the kanji for my classrooms that I don't know? It says "special subject classroom". Which means, it doesn't know either. I have to find out myself.

Oh, I also bought Mario64 for the DS. So cute! You start out as Yoshi and you have to chase a bunny and eat it to get a key. It's sooooo cute! Same world, same moves (in some ways... ), but different characters n stuff.

But I reached Furukawa-sensei, my "animation advisor". And through his broken English, my broken Japanese, and my lack of understanding of conversation etiquette (any sound you make and the person on the other side will stop to hear what you say, unless it's a shart "un"-sound. I haven't caught on yet), he has now told me I don't have classes tomorrow or Friday either.

That doesn't make sense. Thursday I'm supposed to attend a theory class, but maybe he didn't remember that? Class scheduling was a very confusing time. I wasn't sure which theory class I was supposed to attend, but now, w/ my lovely DS, I figured out that there's Animation Psychology and Game Theory. Guess I'll go sit in on both for now (I'm hoping I can kill my Academic Art Electives back at CMU with credits from here. I really don't want to take "Russian Ballet art history" when I get back).

And I suppose Friday's manga-drawing class is still an uncertainty.

Eitherway, I'm supposed to meet with him on Friday. If only I knew where. He said the name in Japanized-English. I told him I didn't understand, but that only resulted in him repeating the Japanized word over and over. So I have no idea... other than it's probably in Building #2 since that building has all the English-named rooms. I hope he's in one of them. I can ask around, I suppose.

But pictures of Tokyo!

Shibuya during the day.

The famous dog of Shibuya. A big meeting spot and tourist attraction (i.e. lots of photos being taken).

Shinjuku at night.