A new year

So yesterday was the new semester at Hosei. You could tell it because there were actually students in the classroom. I think it was all the new first year students who hadn't been told yet that in Japanese university you don't actually have to go. Oh Japan.

The classes I had yesterday were: Industry in Japan, Japanese 4, Japanese 3a and Japanese Literature. Industry in Japan was ok. The teacher is really hard to understand but he's pretty nice. He spent about 20 minutes telling us about how the Keio line turns into the Toei Shinjuku line. And then explained even more about how they are two different lines even though they sometimes use the same train. Considering I use that stupid train every day, this wasn't new information.

Japanese 4 was about the same. We have the same teacher as last time. He still doesn't look at us when he talks so we can never tell if he is talking to us or himself. We also have the same teacher in 3a. She calls the course 3a+ though. If we speak anything other than Japanese, we have to pay 10 yen. Yesterday the topic was alcohol and we spent all class talking about types of alcohol and kinds we like. You gotta love those Baylor-unfriendly courses.

Japanese literature was...interesting. The teacher is an American, and pretty much the stereotypical liberal-college-professor type. I don't understand these people. To me, if you actually don't like something, you try to put it out of your life. But these liberal-college-professor types make a living relating anything and everything about America's downfall. I'm no patriot myself, but I can think of something better to do than talking about America 24/7. Or how about you actually try to change things. These kind of liberals give us a bad name.