This one's for Busha

My friend, Brian Miguel Busha, has been bugging me about doing a 'daily life' post, so here it is. I wake up at 7:30am T-Th, and 8:00am on M and F (my classes start later those two days of the week.) I struggle to get out of bed since my room is literally an icebox. Homes in Japan don't have central heating. Instead each room has a wall-mounted air conditioner/space heater. Also, the living room and kitchen have heating through the floors. Anyway, after getting ready, I head downstairs, where breakfast is either ready, or only a few minutes wait. It depends on the day, but there is often rice and miso soup. Knowing I like pizza, my host mom also often makes toast with tomato sauce and cheese on it. The equivalent of little smokies (i.e. little weiners) show up enough since Yugo really likes those. After eating I leave in a few minutes, and Miki and Yugo send me off with a 'bai bai' or 'itterasshai' (the latter is customary). It takes me about 15min to walk to Fujigaoka station, where I take the Higashiyama Line (it's the yellow line) for 12min or so to Motoyama where I transfer to the Meijo line (purple). Car #14 sets you up in perfect position to get to the Meijo line platform quickly. From there I wait (how long depends on if I took the 8:41 or 8:43 subway out of Fujigaoka.) for the next train, and take that two stops down, where I get off at Yagoto Nisseki. From there it is another ten minute walk to Nanzan University. The whole commute takes about 45 min. Class starts at 9:20 (10:05 on the late days) . The morning consists of the intensive language class until 12:35pm. I generally eat lunch with my friends from the morning language class. The curry house on campus is good if you want to avoid the crowd. Otherwise, the #1 caferteria has excellent toritama donburi (chicken, barely cooked egg, and rice), and dagane has pretty good misokatsu (miso sauce drenched pork cutlet). In the afternoon we have our electives. They generally either start at 1:30 or 3:15 and last for 90 minutes. We have those elective classes once a week. I'm going all out this semester, taking Classical Japanese 2, Business Japanese, Creative Writing, Calligraphy, and University Preparatory Japanese(this is the one I'm worried about). I'm also just hanging out for fun (i.e. no credit) in the Japanese Literature 4 class since I want to read the books they are covering and the teacher is HILARIOUS. He speaks a crazy/broken mix of Japanese and English, has quoted Field of Dreams, and started singing in the middle of class(and that was only the first day!). This semester I'm am either going to join the Shourinjin Kenpo club, or just start training Taekwondo on my own again on Mondays after class (more often if I can). Once spring hits, I'll be practicing with the capoeira club on Wednesdays. After my classes, practice etc. end, I head home, doing the reverse of the commute I detailed above. I get home and dinner is ready generally within a half hour. This is generally when Yugo demands my attention, and I've just learned to not even bother trying to study if he wants to play, etc. before dinner. After dinner I start studying or continue to be distracted by Yugo, Tayusuke, etc. ...and I'll continue this later. I have to get to calligraphy. Let me know what you are still curious about Busha...or anybody else for that matter. The comment link is there for a reason. Later!