Classes at Waseda, Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

Hello! I did one of these before! Go there first; it explains the system more. Now that I’ve gotten my results (v pleased thank you), I’m here to share my knowledge with you, reader/prospective Waseda student/my mum! Please note that the classes may and indeed will change since my time at Waseda (for reference, this post…

amazing blue

It’s been a while! I did write a blog post after my last An Cafe concert, but I never posted it. It became too littered with complicated emotions, so I decided to censor myself, which is something I rarely do these days.   As I write this, it’s finally storming after weeks with no rain….

変わらない未来を願った

So! This post ended up having much more content than I expected. I was expecting the concert on the 13th to be a quick in and out job; pay for drink token, jump about a bit, run home to study for the kanji test the next day. But life isn’t like that, is it? Kissing…

natsubate

So, it’s been exactly a month (update: at time of posting, a month, a week, and three days. I’ve really been procrastinating) since what I pinpointed as the peak of my life; the Hibiya concert that I had been waiting so long for. I’ve been happy since, of course – who couldn’t be living in…

20180428

I woke up on the morning of the 28th April and made strawberry pancakes, because I had a busy ol’ day ahead and wasn’t sure when I’d get chance to eat again. Frozen strawberries work very well in pancakes if you enjoy pancake batter; as you cook the mixture the frozen strawberries leak moisture, creating…

long time no see

As the title says! Don’t know where I went. My family came for a week and I had so much fun being a little guide for them. My brother put me in some terrible situations that tested my Japanese to its absolute limit, but I loved every second. For example, he had a blocked ear…

i keep confusing the japanese words for handshake and sneeze

Seriously. It’s really problematic. When you buy a CD to preorder an event ticket they’re like “What event do you want to go to?”, I always forget the word for handshake (握手 akusha) and the onomatopoeia for sneeze (ハックション hakkushon). Typing them out now they’re not terribly similar, actually. But still. One of these days, I’m going…

hokkaido

I’m writing this on the plane as it departs from New Chitose airport. Efficiency. Plus they dimmed the lights so I can’t read my book (One Day, freshly stolen from the 10 yen store that has materialised in the dormitory lobby, made up of all the cast-offs left behind by those leaving Hoshien). So, my…

tower records

On Sunday February 4th, I found myself ticking yet another thing off of my Japan bucket list. Not that I have a concrete one, mind, it’s mostly just stuff I’ve come across and been like “ah yeah i remember reading about this once upon a time, that would be pretty cool to do”. However, amongst…

880 yen slap on the ass

Quick forewarning: Some of the contents of this post aren’t entirely appropriate. The bar we went to wasn’t entirely appropriate. Sorry. Anyway. Semesters at Waseda are 15 weeks long (what???? at Birmingham it’s only 10 – they like to pretend its 11 but being a filthy BA student I get a tasty tasty Reading Week…