Celly phone...Day 13

Day 13 - Tuesday, Apr 13

The weather is still pretty terrible, but at least it didn't rain. But you know what did happen? My morning train was got delayed. I know, I can practically hear you gasping. The Japanese trains fabled for their punctuality, late? How can it be? If my Japanese were better I could probably tell you, however my meager skills were not enough to decipher the rapid slurred Kansai-ben that was spoken over the loud speaker. All I know is that I had to stand on a crowded train for an extra 20 minutes. In the morning. I would have been pretty upset about this (I mean standing, really? Me stand?) but when we de-trained (I know you 'deplane, but do you also 'detrain'. Boom. I made that a word.) everyone in their fancy suits went running for their connecting train. I have gorgeous awesome long legs, so I took advantage of them and picked up my pace a bit, but it was pretty great seeing frantic business men and woman running around the station.

So my EE class is a recording. Sometimes our teaching assistant, Nancy, gives a lecture and other times we're stuck watching the recording with a man who speaks at an unnaturally slow pace. Evidence: today we played the lecture at 1.3 speed and it was a normal talking pace. So we speeded it up to 1.7 because that was still manageable. Plus side of speeding up lecture, aside from not falling asleep, is that it takes less time! Hooray!

Lunch was not particularly eventful, but after lunch I bought this ice cream thing from the convenient store. Yum. Pure frozen goodness right there. One of the other students, Abe, has been buying that particular ice cream everyday so I finally decided to give it a try. Good call, Abe, I like your style. It was delicious. I'm tempted to fall into his habit and just buy that one, but there are so many varieties of frozen confections and so little time.

After school, lunch, dessert and all that goodness Kenny and I went to Au to purchase our phones. It took about 3 1/2 hours to get them. 3 1/2 hours of my life spent waiting that I'll never get back. I don't know why it took so long. The paper work was finished in the first hour, but I think the lady said something about them needing to fax something and receive a reply. So during this 3 1/2 hour wait, Kenny and I did what Kenny and I do best: wander. We wandered our way to the Kyoto station of the Tozai line where there were lanes of shops. We happened to stumble upon a bakery at one point. If you know me, you know my love for bread is almost as intense as my love for ice cream. So we made a stop and bought two pastries a person. So essentially we got to try four. So good.

It was too late to go back to school so I just made my way home, new cell phone in hand. It's kind of clunky, but has an HD video camera and takes pictures. Apparently I can also catch some TV on it. There's even an antennae. But I still don't really know how to use it and the manual is all in Japanese. Oh noes!!! I think I'm going to get a tutorial from one of the guys at school who has one of these bad boys. Save me some time. I'm going for efficiency here. But really, I'm just being lazy.