The Eye of Patrick

hello everyone, i am finally updating my journal again… i think it has been ages since i last updated my journal. I have been mixed with a feeling of lazyness and i do not know a feeling that it is not worth updating… no hehe it is lazyness and finding time to update it that i find is the problem. I mean when i have time i am too tired to update it, such an evil cycle of un-updating of journal hehe….

But i am slowly getting used to Japan, i mean i enjoy Japan and love Japan, it is getting used to my school and meeting new people. I do not know sometimes i feel like i am not fully in japan yet, that i am still somehow stuck in a english speaking zone. I do not know may be it is because most of the exchange students who come to Kansai are americans or people from native english speaking countries so the chance of find the diveristy that i discovered at Trent is not possible. I have met many interesting and new people, and slowly working my way in to Japanese culture, meeting new people, getting there cellphone e-mails and stuff, saying hi to when i run into them…. i know i must be proactive, i mean i can not sit at home and say i want japanese friends or i want this, and expect it to come to me. I must go out and get it and do it. I tried to do that with the golf and photo club, i left a message with both group in the hope of getting involved with them. I will join a group for sure, as i do not know, i want to be more involved in school affairs.

This weekend is a long weekend, so i will be making a trip to somewhere around Japan, i will start to post pictures again.

So today, i went to school, i have a really interesting japanese teacher, he is japanese but has lived in Austrilia for 16 years i think he said and speaks perfect english. He is not someone i will become friends with, but he seems like someone who is kind and helpful, whenever you have a question. Though the Japanese class is getting very hard, as we are learning more and more complicated sentences. I think when i learnt Portuguese i was not moving at this speed. But it is good, even if i only remember half of the stuff that i am taught it is good, as i will be a more better student as a result of it.

In Japanese there is 3 different writting systems, Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji, and they are all used in a sentence. Hiragana is used for basic structure of a sentence, while katakana is used for words that are not able to be written or spoken using hiragana or kanji words. While Kanji is a verison of the chinese writting system.

Then after Japanese i went home, and relaxed for a bit. I had class at 9-10, 1-2:20 and 4- 5:20, so it was very spaced out. But the problem with kansai gaidai is that the english classes are very simple and boring. I mean they are not hard. I think the logic is that they want you to spend more of your time reading and studying japanese, then doing stuff you can probably do in your own country. So that is good.

Then after that i met up with Kevin and Rie and her friends and we played Cards in the CIE area(kind of like a lounge for students) it as nice. But we were getting hungry so we walked to Hirakatashi and had a dinner together at a korean resturant i think? atleast the meal i ordered was korean hehe…

yah i know short reply, and i feel bad, but i will update hopefully more often. I will post tomorrow hopefully, e-mail me people!

bye bye