Day 5 - Class

So today wasn't very eventful. I woke up, ate, and had to go to class. What I didn't expect was that the train I caught every morning so far is extremely different on a weekday. Those pictures you may have seen of the people stuffed like sardines in a moving can are so much emptier than it really is. Once inside, another 20 or so people shoved themselves in front of me and I was both standing and lying down at the same time -- or so it felt like. My back was hurting by hunching over at times and my calves were in pain from being slightly on my toes for most of the ride. It's much funnier to see people on the trains than being one of them.

Class was BS, I got placed into one that was easier than it should be. Not to mention my friends who have one year of experience are asking me the simplest questions about what the Sensei just said. Seriously, I have to move up a rank.

"Business Economics" is a class all of those in the program have to take. Yeah.. I'm not going anymore. The class put majority of us to sleep. The teacher was even bored teaching us the material, and only read off of the papers he had handed us minutes earlier and agreeing with himself. I actually started reading another day's book it was so boring.
My last class of the day was a free conversation class where I met a Kanako and a Midori. It's much more fun when there are three of us who speak English and a know-how of Japanese of about a relatively even playing field. So we were able to converse and had a few laughs here and there. After a jikoshoukai (introduction) the class ended and most of us went our separate ways.
I decided to tag along with a sempai and the girls with a bunch of other students. So there ended up being only like three of us who spoke English and nine who didn't. It's ok though, I figured I'll sit next to my sempai and he can help me talk. But nope, I ended up sitting with three very nice Japanese girls and had a struggling yet useful conversation. You know when it's good when you don't have another English speaker correcting your very wrong Japanese. So I felt rather comfortable speaking with the three of them --although the natural mistakes occurred-- and gained a lot. Hopefully I'll have many more opportunities to speak to more natives and speed up this learning process I have going for me.