Sunday, September 9, 2007

Registration And Textbook


I’m taking five classes this semester, English class for multilingual, Intro Macroeconomics analysis, Intro Biological anthropology which is for my GE class, two classes for PE Elementary Karate and Personal Defense. In terms of the unit, those classes are 12 units. I have some classes I wanted to take but I couldn’t because I missed priority registration, so I will take them in the next semester, Winter or Spring.
The other day, I went to the bookstore to buy my textbook of this semester but unusual thing for Japanese happened. I picked the textbook for my Macroeconomic class up and went to cashier desk to pay the money but the staff said “one hundred twenty one seventy cents”. I though “What!?” $100 on one book!? I’d expected to pay much money for the textbook but it was a little beyond it. The book, however, is $100 worth, so I’ve got to learn English properly and get a knowledge related economics from it.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

"I Have Three Roommates"


One of interesting thing for students studying abroad would be ” Housing”. I’ve been living at dorm on campus. I share my room with 3 people. Two of them are international student, from Canada and Sri Lanka, and the other roommate is American. They are very nice guys. This is my first time to share a room with foreign student, so I hope I will have nice school life with them. There are 3 bedrooms in my room. We’ve been assigned the American and I share one bedroom and the other roommates have their own bedrooms. The American guy is very tall, and he said he is 6.7 feet (204 centimeters tall)! He likes to play guitar, so I sometimes hear his musical performance in my room. The contract of our dorm is for a whole year, so I’m going to live for a year with them.