let there be light?

So yesterday I bought a really cheap 2000 yen floor lamp for my room along with a REALLY (even more plastic) cheap table to set my tv on. So at least my room feels a bit more "home like" than it did before. Other than that, the only other thing i really need to buy is a space heater, because its SO COLD in that dorm its just ridiculous.

This week is our last week to decide which classes we want to take before we have to officially register on friday. Friday is also the day we finally learn what japanese classes we are placed into. This week we are also having a "formal entrance ceremony" in the international student center, and tomorrow I am going to meet my academic advisor and the tutor that he set up for me at dinner (somewhere).

It`s so WEIRD to have people constantly stareing at you. Everytime I go somewhere, whether it be alone or with friends, night or day, people can`t help but to gawk at the foreigners. I feel like an attraction at the zoo sometimes. I even stare back and they sometimes just KEEP looking at me o_0

Anyway, I have to do a lot of stuff this week to figure out how to pay for all these services im receiving. Lets see... theres the phone bill, the utilities, the rent, my bank account set up, umm...OH and national health insurance... I really need to figure these things out! I guess I can set up my cell phone bills and health care payments to be automatically deducted from my bank account, but that requires a high level of japanese and character (kanji) knowledge that I currentlly lack. So! i guess I`ll be assaulting my tutor to help me with these things. Everytime I see an application form i squirm, because they`re IMPOSSIBLE to read without consulting 3 dictionaries.

anyway, Im off to my art class.

jya ne (see you later)