A Change in Plans

Today was the first day of classes. Well... class, really. I only had one class today: Photography.

All was going well until she handed out the syllabus and mentioned that everyone would need their OWN camera. There was a time where this wouldn't have been a problem, but due to past events, I no longer own a manual camera of my own. The teacher explained that a compact digital camera would do alright, but unfortunately we would need a manual setting for some of the projects--meaning someone would have to trust me with their camera, even if they were there watching. These things aren't cheap, many have spent 600+ USD in order to obtain their babies, and letting some stranger handle them isn't something anyone REALLY wants to do.

So I'm dropping this class and taking up an online class instead. African American History or something like that--sounds interesting, so I'm hoping it'll be relatively entertaining. There are a handful of students also taking this class, which is how I learned about it, so hopefully we can work together on anything any of us don't understand.

On the plus side, this means that I have Tuesdays and Thursdays free for chatting online
, doing homework, and hanging out with friends. Exciting!

I cooked for the first time on my own while I've been in Japan tonight. I made some simple rice and shrimp curry. It was good, but as usual, I made WAY too much. So the left over rice will go into my bento for tomorrow's lunch. Along with some gyoza and onigiri I bought at the market tonight.

I'll have more updates tomorrow. Today was slow and not too entertaining to say the least.

However, I DID buy an umbrella... seeing as when I left today it was raining, and it still is. Such a pain! I also bought book ends, another pen holder for my markers, and some other miscellaneous things from the 100 yen store (about the equivalent of the dollar stores back in the US).

And I finally spent some real time in the market: bought rice, shrimp, gyoza, curry, nori (seaweed), soda, onigiri, and eggs. Looking forward to having some nicer, yummy dinners from now on! And I only spent 2100yen (about 20 USD).

I also managed to get all of my books (the bookstore WAS open, thankfully) and it was JUST under 10000yen (approx. 100 USD). I'm hoping I won't have to spend more money for my history class, but if I do, I do. It's only one more class. It will have to wait until my financial aid however.

Anyway, I'm going to study for my test tomorrow (in Japanese) while I wait for kitchen duty at 10:30 tonight. I'm so tired... Oh well. Class doesn't start until 10 am tomorrow, so I'll leave at 8:30 and I get up around 7:00-7:30 am. Plenty of time!

Good Night.
おやすみなさい！