Today is officially my second day here in Okinawa.
So actually I am on my student exchange journey nowadays till the next one year.
I arrived in Okinawa on September 25th at (around) 8 pm after such a long journey since my first flight was at 06.25 am and I had to stop by 2 times in Hong Kong and Taiwan furthermore this is also my first solo flight so yeah kinda tiresome flight. Also I was really tired that day because I haven't had enough sleep since several days (or weeks) before because of the many things that I had to think before my departure date to Okinawa, including my thesis seminar, publication, defense, revision, even permission since I have done my thesis' defense.
There was one more student who arrived at the same time with me and we were even have the same flight from Taiwan, her name is Lia, Sorry if it's misspelled I don't know the correct spells but it pronounces that way "Lia", she is from Laos. Unfortunately she forgot to bring her certificate of eligibility so the immigration officer couldn't just let her pass until he met Oshiro-san and got an explanation from her. Ah that time we were picked up by Oshiro-san who is nice. She even bought us a dinner during our way to Nishihara :D
Too bad, Lia is actually stay in Senbaru Dormitory while I stay in the International House. I was then introduced by Arakawa-san to my tutor, her name is Yuki. It was late already and I was really tired and sleepy honestly. But since they said that there'll be typhoon on Sunday (but the fact there is no typhoon today, read: Sunday), Yuki asked me to go with her to the supermarket and buy some things so I was just said "okay". She has her own car so we went there by car. I couldn't really think about things that I will need for my room that time so I only bought some kind of instant rice and 2 big bottles of mineral water. I actually have brought so many things from home though even an extra soap, shampoo, tooth brush, tooth paste, some dried foods, etc since I have to save my scholarship money as much as possible to go around the mainland and bring it back home. She is also really nice that she even took me to her apartment to let me borrow her pot and glass. She lives there with her roommate who is half Canadian-Japanese and she said that she also has just picked her roommate up at the airport around the time of my arrival. She is not that fluent in English (I can't say that I'm fluent in English though) and I also feel bad because I can't speak Japanese but our communication is still okay and I also have an appointment with her on Monday which is tomorrow.
I'm looking forward for all the good things to happen!Labels: exchange life, japan
POSTED BY Egi ON Sunday, September 27, 2015 @ 15:01
