Everyday I'm Hustlin'

Wassup Hoes,

I'm sorry for the delay of my posts, it has been a whirlwind of a first week here in Nagoya, but it was a totally awesome whirlwind, aside from the placement test of course. Anna, Jay and I have been out wandering around the various streets of Nagoya every evening and we have had some of the most fun doing it. But first things first, here are my pictures of the communal areas of my dorm room.

 This right here is my lovely shower/bath room. It is quite....cozy I suppose. It wasn't until today that I figured out it is possible to acquire hot water when taking a shower, before it was very cold.

This is the sink and next to it as an area you can fill buckets and clean stuff so that is kind of convenient to have. The toilet is also off of this area but I thought it would be weird to take a picture of that so I didn't.

This is our kitchen, it's actually really nice. We have a rice cooker now as well and while we don't have a stove per se, the hot plate seems to work well enough. I haven't actually cooked anything in here yet but my roommate and her friend are always cooking up something and it usually smells really good.


Well that's it for what constitutes my living space for the duration of my time here in Japan. It isn't super exciting but it is much nicer than what I'm going to come back to America to so that's a little sad. As for what we've been doing this whole time I haven't been updating, the answer is pretty much anything and everything. The day after we found the pachinko parlors we did find the book-off. It was so glorious, and things were bought and all was good.

After that we decided to walk to Kanayama station. Our friends had said that it was really cool and had a legit arcade and while it was kind of a walk it wasn't too far at all. Lies and deceit. It was a really,really long walk but we eventually arrived and it was as cool as he had said. It looked a lot like the Japan that everyone sees on TV and it was bustling and crowded.

We went to the arcade here and it was so stereotypically Japan. The had UFO catchers but they also had the typical arcade games. It was pretty big, three stories tall so we spent some time in there. Then we went off in search of a place to eat and that's when we found it....JAPANESE DENNY'S. It is the classiest fucking place here which is so weird considering Denny's in America is a piece of shit and a half. After that we decided to head home, but we couldn't bear the thought of walking all the way back there since it was such a hike. Instead we decided that it would be the perfect time to try and figure out Nagoya's subway system. Buying the tickets seemed a little confusing at first so Jay pressed the call of assistance button. I was looking around for someone to come up and help us when all of a sudden the wall next to the ticket machine opened up and a man stuck his head out and asked us what we needed. All I could think was what the fuck Japan, what the fuck.

The Japanese subway, at least in Nagoya, is a lot like the el so I didn't feel too overwhelmed. A ticket to the next station over is 200 yen, which isn't too bad. Now we know better than to walk our asses to Kanayama in the future.

Last night was Anna and Bre's birthdays. Jay said we had to do it big and so it was done. A lot of the international students came out with us and we all went to karaoke. It was actually a lot of fun. I'm glad that we get along with most of the international students on campus so far. Today we are also planning on celebrating Anna's birthday round 2 so the plan is to go to Sakae which is the next stop after Kanayama. That means Sakae is the main objective for today's shenanigans but it has an important prerequisite. I need to go find an ATM to get monies. So far, Japan has been pretty expensive and I wasn't completely expecting that. I can't live without fruit so I am paying some less than stellar prices for it. I'll let everyone know how Sakae is in my next blog post!

Until Next Time,
~BPuddin