Travel Plans

Things are winding down now here at KIT, only one week left to go. Because of that, we're starting to be thinking more about our travel plans after the program. A few of us are going to a music festival called Nano-Mugen. It's a two day music festival featuring Japanese and English bands in Yokohama, near Tokyo, that I believe the band Asian Kung-Fu Generation started. That band is basically the only Japanese music I know, and I only know it because Xander showed it to me before we left for Japan.

Lazy Day

Today we didn't have a ton of class, we only had a final for our Japanese for Science and Technology class that lasted about an hour, and then we just hung out until the second class started, which was our project class. I mostly just caught up on things I wanted to do. For example, I have a notebook that I've been carrying with me almost the whole time I've been here that I just write down words I hear in so I can remember them. I'm in the middle of typing it up on the computer and checking with a dictionary, but there's a ton of words.

Haircut

Yesterday I decided I had to get my haircut, because I've been meaning to do so before I even came to Japan. I went to the bank first because haircuts in Japan are pretty expensive for a decent one. They seem to run about 3000 or 4000 yen, or about $27 or $37. When I got to the barber shop, I asked them how much it would be for a haircut, and they said just that with no shampooing would be about $30. Oh well, I've paid more for haircuts a few times. In my poor Japanese I asked for the man to use the buzz cutter on the sides and back, and the scissors on the top.