Day 31

New class, new people, more karaoke.  What more can be said about Friday at the end of a module?  Not a whole lot, except for the minor details about each one of those points.

First, the new class.  Term B of SILAC is already much more intense than the first term, as we started learning new material right away and were almost being tested as we went.  most students call our professor the "Shinkansen Sensei" due to the speed that her class moves at, and that you need to stay either with or ahead of her.  I think it's not that bad, but it may become more intense and surprise me later on.  Let's just see how it goes.

Second, new people in the class.  To start out, I already met a "that guy", and was offended by him at least two or three times during class.  Most of it was mumbled comments from him that I could clearly make out, such as "wow, 'you're' real advanced (in a completely sarcastic tone)", and something like "I'd never say something like that."  I really don't care about what he says, because he's a guy who wears black nail polish, which invalidates all of his comments and arguments, and makes me realize that his attempted put downs are only really an attempt to make him not be considered an outsider.  Then to my other side is a guy from Australia named Gareth, who has apparently attended Yamasa before.  He lives in Japan, and wants to be able to speak the language.  I've noticed plenty of students at Yamasa who have lived in Japan for an extended amount of time, and I ask myself, "why is it that you're only starting to learn the language now?"  Most of the other students are Taiwanese, and are pretty good at speaking the language.

Third, more karaoke.  Sunday is Vojtech's birthday, so he invited some of his friends for another round at Cote d'Azur.  There were in total roughly 12 people in our room, and we stayed for about 5 1/2 hours, longer than before.  If I keep on doing this, I may just end up spending 24 hours at karaoke one day.  Plenty of songs were sung, I was thoroughly impressed by the Korean guy who sounded like he could have been professional, and everyone had a rockin' good time.

I didn't do anything afterwards, because I was carrying absolutely no money on me at the time.  So, I went back, had dinner, and started planning on how I would clean the kitchen over the weekend.  Details of that endeavor will be explained in the next post.  Until then, ciao.