I live quite away from the train station (about a 40 minute walk) not to mention to get to some of the stores, like the Daiso for things I need, I would have to walk that 40 minute walk. So a bike (bicycle) would definitely help a lot, and it’s the transportation of choice for Japanese (combined with the train). Well Mr. Hisano brought me the bike on Wednesday. It’s apparently the bike that some of the past alum have used. And it’s pretty big =X I was worried my short legs wont be able to reach the peddles =( and as expected…my feet also can’t touch the ground T__T and yup I set the seat to the lowest setting. I tried riding it around my immediate neighborhood but I had trouble stopping the bike and turning. Either it’s just my horrible bike riding or the bike is just too big for me =( Maybe I need more practice? but I didn’t have too much trouble back when I was riding my dad and stepmom’s bikes back home, although I never really learned to ride a bike properly until a few months before I left for Japan. (My family never taught me, and I tried learning to ride a bike during junior high with friends, but that ended in fail.) Well not being able to have full control on this bike, and trying to ride it around the sidewalk-less narrow roads here with the cars…nope not gonna happen.

Later I met with Mr. Hisano and Mrs. Mamiya again to figure out the rest of my schedule. She introduced me to Asao-sensei, who we were trying to meet the other day but was out busy. He can speak fairly good English, and is in charge of the visual study class. Another thing I can do for class credit is to work on a project any kind of work, commercial, short, animation, etc and I choose a teacher, such as Asao-sensei, to guide me on the project. He is also one of the editors for Osaka Geidai’s television drama that the graduate students are producing (the same ones ) and they do that at the ATC (Asian Pacific Trade Center), so sometimes I would need to go to the city, but I would so love to watch and observe them editing ^_^

So my schedule is set:

Well no direct editing class in there, which at first was what I told them I would like to learn the most, but they recommended against taking the editing class since they say the teacher is pretty strict =X Japanese classes monday, and the basic introductory class on tuesday. Well, the I’ll be doing a little bit of everything which should be good, learning about editing through Wednesday’s class, Thursday watch documentaries and Calligraphy class (for fun), and Special Effects classes alternating on Fridays. It’ll be an interesting semester =)

And btw, I didn’t find out until later that one of the bicycle tires was flat… =/