SANC: Study Hard, Party Hard...Just Like Yale!

Tomorrow, we second years have our first weekly big test (apart from the kanji and grammar quiz that we have every morning), covering all the grammar (like 4 or 5 new structures) and all the kanji (120 of them...roughly what we took most of first YEAR to learn), and all the vocab (I'd say about...200+ words) we've done so far.

o.O

Who said SANC is not demanding?? The second years are easily doing more work than the 3rd and 4th years COMBINED, womp womp. And all this studying (PLUS the like 2357 worksheets they gave us as homework at the end of the day on Friday) has fallen to Sunday, like a good Yalie and college student in general. I mean, between going to the Imperial Palace (not that we even SAW it, the palace grounds are ginormous and the Palace itself is only open for two days a year--New Year's and the Emperor's birthday), walking around Ginza and adamantly not buying anything (basically 5th Avenue with a really awesome Yoshinoya) (haha I love how EVERYTHING is a comparison to New York), following Rene as he struts into Dior like he owns the place and comforting him as he complains they didn't have the bag he wanted to show us (the same Rene who then plays the Stereotyping Card when me and Ming suggest going to him to see if we're dressed well enough to go out that night), and checking out the "cool stuff" (omoshiroi mono or sugoi koto, takeyour pick) at the Sony Building we read so much about in Japanese class (a building whose facade was upstaged by the Hermés building), we clearly didn't have enough time for homework during the day.

And then at night....let me just say we made full use of my cards (which I need to get back...), did speed karaoke in 30 minutes, and enjoyed Roppongi, and got home at 6 because the Tokyo subway closes between midnight and 5 (WTF, right??), which means we HAD to stay out that late =]

And in general annoyed every single person in Tokyo in one night (a fact which we realized, as me and Hee-Sun would randomly proclaim, "Ohhh noooo, we're WARUI GAIJIN! We're BAD FOREIGNERS! Everyone hates us..." LMAO).

And now, totally unrelated, I'll put up pictures of my apartment, just because I finally took some the other day:









PS SANC's official song is "Love Story," Taylor Swift.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wRkoGKQ8qQ