Entries this day: Move Yumi shin stephanie

Move

4:48pm JST Wednesday 17 September 2003

The roomswitch went rather well in the moving-out-of-the-old-room department, but my stuff in the new room is still in piles and pretty much not yet livable. Bed is covered in stuff and junk and the desk built into the closet is just piles of papers not really lined up in a useful manner.

I kinda know the first four lines of my speech.

Yumi

8:05pm JST Wednesday 17 September 2003

Yumi learned numbers today: thousand and million she already knew, but billion and trillion are new. When she gave me 780 yen to cover my train tickets, she was all, "here is... five.... bill..five... tr. five tri... five tri wakanai.. five" and I helped her out. She's so funny!

The 8:00 Commuter Express is leaving Shibuya at 8:05 as I write. (My computer clock is 3 minutes ahead of their clock)

I'm thankful that I'll make it to my meeting with Shin by 8:30 (assuming the train isn't further delayed)

shin

10:13pm JST Wednesday 17 September 2003

In our lesson, Shin and I chose a new name for him in America. He'll be.. wait. first I will say his *LAST* name is Shin, so I've been calling him by his last name all this time. Anyway, he was going to be Harry, but I was like, damn G you can't be Hairy Shin, and I explained why. So we settled on Harry Davis Shin. Nice.

stephanie

11:29pm JST Wednesday 17 September 2003

Welp, I didn't get to see Stephanie again before she leaves for home in 8 hours. We volleyed some text messages tonight, marveling at the strangeness of life "hey, you're cool; let's hang out. nevamind; see ya!" I wonder if we'll really stay in touch.

I gotta go to sleep.