Bored

I really have done nothing today. I spent a while in looking at guitar tabs, this morning, though I always choose the hardest songs to attempt to play and, of course, I cannot. I just give up in the end or spend a while simply listening to it being played at me and gaining enjoyment from that. I think I am rather bored currently. I finished watching my anime series, though, which is both good and bad, since I enjoyed it. The good news it there is a second series, so I am looking forward to watching that someday. I watched four episodes in total and a few interviews with the makers, since I always have to watch the extra features.

I made myself another tuna and camembert toasty, along with a ham and camembert version. I am writing out our train schedule for the next two weeks, little by little. The website I am using for planning our journey has so much information on it, including platform number (sometimes) and even the train number. The only problem is that they seem to have forgotten about the site and, as such, you cannot select dates in April. That means that I can accurately timetable the first half of our voyage, though things get slightly less precise from April Fools’ Day onwards. Luckily, I know of another site, but it is not as detailed and is far less usable. I hope that it will be all right. Maybe they will update the page soon so that I can assure us of a trouble free passage. James is working on the accommodation, but is finding it slow going. He has gone into university twice now to try and book places with Maki-san’s help.

This evening, I ate dinner in the canteen as usual. There are suddenly many students around, though it turns our that it is the “Daiichi Kodai Baseball Team” from Kumamoto, who have come to stay for three nights and four days (三泊四日 – sanhaku yokka). I have spent about two hours talking to the people at reception downstairs: Fujita- and Toyokura-sensei. It is good practice for me, I think, especially since we do not have classes now and, as such, are not talking Japanese nearly as often as we normally do. I try to fit in as many different grammatical expressions as I can, but there never seems to be any use for some of them, so I tend to forget those. I hope I do not bother them too much, however. Whilst I was down there, I saw Ayaka (one of the tea people) who rushed off and came back with some castella cake for me from Nagasaki, as a souvenir. She was fulfulling the Japanese way: those who go away must bring back souvenirs for everyone, but I thought it was a lovely gesture nonetheless.