Day 4

From Japan: Day 004

Woo! Karaoke!

Today wasn't quite as busy as yesterday. We had Extra-Curricular Activities info meeting from 10:15-11:00, Academic Orientation from 11-12, lunch with Japanese students (auditors who will be taking some of the same classes), professors, and staff from 12-1, Events and Field trips info from 1-1:30, computer orientation from 1:30 to about 3. Then four of us did some walking around, checked out a few shops, a mall, and a river (that had a lot of mosquitoes). We then had a welcome dinner from 5:45-8 with the auditors and volunteers (wish I could understand/speak Japanese a lot more than I do...). After that we dropped our things off at the hotel and a couple of the Japanese students took about 20 of us to karaoke! (I forgot to mention that there are 31 students from Stanford in the program) Everyone kept picking English songs (most weren't that great...), but it was fun anyway. Apparently some types of drinks were free (even though I don't drink), I think this was because we were large groups (they split us into three rooms). We were there until about 11:30... so tired... and I still had to repack stuff for tomorrow (they pick up our large bags in the morning to send to our homestays that will arrive on Sunday... so we needed to pack a days work of clothes and stuff for Sunday night). Tomorrow we meet our homestay families (none of us are looking forward to this :P).