Woot orientation day 2!

Every morning we have breakfast at 6:15. Ugh, so early. I can't eat so early in the morning. Yuko made miso soup and rice. The soup had a bunch of egg in it and I don't really like eggs. Normally, I'd just eat it anyway, but I knew if I did that Yuko would make eggs every day, so I didn't eat it and then later told her I didn't like eggs. I felt super bad about that. And she told me that it was okay to do that in her house, but if I went to another person's house, I would have to eat it anyway. Whoops.
After breakfast I got ready to leave for the station. When I leave, I say "ittekimasu!" and Yuko and Miyabi say "itterasshai!"

I had no trouble parking my bike today. And no trouble catching either train. It was after I left Yagoto Nisseki station that I fudged everything up.Yesterday I had had Ryuskei with me, but today I had no one. So of course I took a wrong turn in the opposite direction from Nanzan and wound up on a big hill next to a shrine. 

(Cute drain covers)

So what do I do?
Find another Japanese boy to walk me to school of course! :)
I pulled out my phone to take a picture of the shrine when this guy with Beats by Dr. Dre on came around the bend. I didn't want to look like a tourist (lol), so I didn't take the picture. Instead, I was like "sumimasen!"
I felt bad making him part from his Beats but whatevs. I told the guy I wanted to go to Nanzan Daigaku. Turns out he was a student there as well! So we walked together. And he left his headphones off the entire time! He was super shy, but I got him to talk with me a bit in Japanese. His name was Fumi and he walked with me all the way through the gates of Nanzan until I parted to go to the R building.
My friends were already there and we talked for a while until it was time for the housing orientation.
I went to the homestay orientation where we were given this paper to fill out with our host family.
After that, it was a safety talk with a police officer. He talked about bike safety. I found out the law in Japan says that if you ride at night without a light, you can be fined $500! Holy crap!
Guess what I was doing last night? Yep, riding without a light. Total lawbreaker here! So yeah, I decided I had to buy a light on the way home today.
Then he gave this girl who had a bike a hot pink lock. I was sooooo jealous! I wanted that lock so badly. Rrrrr.
We also had these two guys teach us some Judo moves. That was totally awesome!
Then we turned in the forms we had to fill out last night. We also made inkan to open a bank account.
Mine read:
It says "wise road" lol and can be read as "keito" which is my name!
Then it was lunch time, so my friends and I went to Lawson's where I had a GINORMOUS melon pan! It was aweeesommeeee. And another item checked off my list. :) I also got an onigiri with some kanji reading that I didn't know for what was in it. It was green, though, so I assumed it was vegetable. It turned out to be the same weird brown stuff in my host mom's onigiri yesterday. My friends thought maybe it was pickled plum. Ew. I think that's called umeboshi or something.

(The melon pan compared to the onigiri... totemo ooki desu!)

I also got orange juice because I miss it so much!
Emma got this drink called Calpis (pronounced "cow piss" haha). It was supposed to be like milk except it had chunks in it and tasted fruity.  

After lunch we had academic orientation and we selected courses. I'm taking 18 credits! Tea ceremony, calligraphy, arts and culture, woodblock painting, and my Japanese classes. 

I found out I tested into 300 level of Japanese which is the worst one. :( All my friends got into 400, but I figured as much because they're all WAY better than I am at Japanese. 

Then we could leave! I got invited to go est ramen, but this guy Chris, who studied at Nanzan last semester as well and is basically fluent in Japanese was going to help me get a commuter pass for the train and subway.

So he and I went to Kanayama together because he stops there too. He helped me get the pass for one month! So now I don't have to buy a ticket every day anymore. Yaaay!

When I got to Ichinomiya station, I stopped in the Daiso there to get a bike light. But when I got to my bike, I saw it already had a bike light and I hadn't realized! Oh well.

I rode home and didn't get lost tonight. Yatta!

I had the house to myself when I got home. But only for about half an hour. Then everyone came home and Yuko made dinner. She made this amazing chicken! And rice and miso soup again. And we had mikan for dessert (aka clementines).

After dinner Miyabi and I played with her string you put around your hands. I'd been obsessed with that when I was little so I had a bunch of shapes memorized that I taught her how to make like teacup, witch's broom, cat whiskers, and Jacob's ladder. She loved it!

I talked in Japanese a lot tonight!

Oh and here's their toilet which I freaking love. It has a heated seat and everything!

And I find the handle so hilarious!

The top character says "big" and the bottom says "little". I'm still a little uncertain sometimes which end to use, but I give it my best judgement. ;)

Also, we got these cell phone charms at Nanzan. 

Aren't they cute? They have a chibi version of the head of Nanzan, a priest named Michael. Michael is Mikaeru in Japanese.

Kaeru = frog

Mi = three

Hence, there are three frogs with him!

Anyway, I'm super exhausted, so oyasumi nasai!