Current location:	study room
Current mood:	busy

Hallo!
I am still alive.. I know. I should definetely write more entry, but I sooooo don't have the time to do that! And here is the reason why!

Guess how a typical day during my exchange semester at Waseda looks like:  


AM

6.45 -- Get up with swollen eyes

7.35 -- Breakfast time in WG, I always eat Japanese breakfast with rice and miso instead of western one with bread. Often due to tiredness, however, I messed up the white rice bowl with the red miso one... -.-
Also I always drink one of those horrible tasting coffee in the morning, because or else I cannot stay awake during the morning lectures.

7.55 -- Get out of the house, either walking when it's raining, or ride the bycicle when the weather is good.

8.10 -- Arrive at the nearest station, 西川口駅, and get on the most fullest train you can ever imagine. It does not matter how nice you are dressed in the morning, you always get totally messed up after getting off the train.

9.05 -- Drained in sweat and exhaustion, arriving at Waseda main campus 5 min late. As the teacher normally comes late it is not that bad if you are 5 min late at time.

10.30 -- End of first lecture in the morning while the tiredness reaches almost its peak. If I look around me, I can see at least 30% of the people sleeping on their desks. Run to the next building for the next class.

10.40 -- Start of the next class

12.10 -- End of the morning classes and start of the lunch time. I mostly go down to the Family Mart and buy a little coup soup, a fright chicken and one onigiri. However, I only eat the onigiri at around 6 o'clock pm as or else I will have to until midnight to get the next bit of food.

PM

1.00 -- Start of the 3rd period. Mostly one of the boring ones has started. Due to the lunch I mostly get extremely tired in this period. Especially on Tuesday and Thursday I have this extremely horrible class called Japanese Industry and Economy with an extremely slowly English speaking teacher, giving extremely chaotic slides, to extremely boring subjects with extremely lot amount of work.

2.30 -- End of first afternoon class. TIme to get to the next class

2.45 -- Start of the 4th period which is most of the time Japanese class. The classes are most of the time interessting. There are however quite a lot of tests in those classes for which I always have to prepare. (Note that there are 15 min break in the afternoon class...they just changed it this year.)

4.15 -- End of the 4th period. I don't have a 3rd and 4th period on Monday and don't have a 4th on Thrusday which I use for either sleaping, or writing report.

4.30 -- Start of the 5th period. I only have 5th period on Monday and Thrusday which is Advertising. This class is on one side not that interesting when it comes to theoretical stuff, but when it comes to watching TV advertisements it's quite funny. The female professor is quite kind and nice to use exchange student. The tests however are not that easy.

6.00 -- End of the 5th period. Running over to Student Building,学生公館（学館）.

6.20 -- Start of the Summer Musical Practice

9.10 -- End of Musical Pratice for me. Normally the practice goes until 10.00 pm. However as I have my part time job I often have to leave 10 after 9.

9.20 -- Beginning of my part time job as English tutor starts in the nearest caffe of Waseda. I am teaching English to a 27th year old, single Salaryman. The teaching is quite fun, as I learn a lot of Japanese in the same time, also the payment is not bad, 3500 yen for 1.30 hour. The bad side however, it's always starts so late that I mostly have to fight against heavy sleepness after an exhausted day.

10.50 -- End of class and my way back home.

11.40 -- Arriving at home and start to eat dinner. The WG manager is always so kind and leaves one portion of dinner for me even though I always come back so late. Normall the dinner goes until 10.30 - 11.00 pm and it is not allowed to leave dinner for so late. But as the manager is so kind he always do this for me.

0.00 -- End of dinner and get back to room. Get into public shower.

0.30 -- End of shower.

0.45 -- Going to bed time and falls asleep after only a minute.


You see that how a tpical day for me looks like! Crazy what? ^^;;; That is why I do not have anytime for any otther things. However, as I don't have classes on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, I at least have the morning for a little bit more sleep, cleaning, drama watching time. But in the afternoon I normally have circle acvities, as there ballroom dancing on Wednesday and on Saturday, and right now Musical practice every day! So no way for me to rest.

Daily Schedule in Japanese:
 

This is how it normally looks like in one week. Of course during Wednesday and Sunday I normally either study, grocery shopping, going practice meet friends or something else comes between. Mostly the Tuesday and Thursdays are the hardest ones.

However, I have to say I don't regret at all how I chose my exchage student life here as I use up every free time and really enjoy my time here.

But therefore forgive me not have the time to write here... I really will make it up after going having come back to Germany or so.

See you next time!!!