So I complained about Tsukuba University quite a bit. Really. It sucks. Apparently the school had budget cuts and took it out on the Foreign Student program. It’s a wonder why the teachers don’t really give a shit when they teach. As each day progresses it just wears on the mind. After taking the midterm for Japanese is when I snapped Yelling out “FUCK” as loud as a I could. This midterm was pretty much garbage. I aced the grammar and written part of the test, but then out came the Listening part. I failed it. Imagine a test with 70 questions, where you must understand what they are saying as they speak very, very, very quickly. Now this wouldn’t be so bad, but they didnt give pause, quickly moving from question to question. The worst thing was there was no repetition. In all the listening exam was done in 8 minutes. I was getting really fed up, So I had to do something. I was thinking some crazy shit… very depressing thoughts. It’s terrible. Really bad. I wanted to physically beat people, and then jump in front of a train. Yeah… it’s bad.

I talked with my advisors and they gave me the option of leaving the Tsukuba program due to medical conditions. I like this option, but I hate giving up. I love Japan. I just hate this retarded school. I had a good chance to vent.

To further improve my condition I decided to drop having any interest in Bijin. It’s unhealthy. I had my chance. So I started to get a better outlook. I still hate the school, but I was feeling better.

I recently got a new Zekken, a new tara for my kendo outfit. It basically says Tsukuba Medical Kendo, and the name on it is a Kanji that is pronounced the same way my last name is. The Kanji is one for emperor, hence the title of this blog. Feel good.

so getting back into the groove of things I was invited to the ICU school festival. It was good. My kaiwa partner invited me. You know. Belle? Anyways things were awesome, we ate so much food and watched alot of exhibitions. Of course as things progressed there was quite a bit of touching. Now nothing perverted but like shoulder bumping, head bopping, thigh hitting. Some how the subject came to ice cream. Mainly because I was curious about Coldstone creamery. I love that place. Anyways there was and we decided to go.

I treated her, and when it was time for my order, they sang a song because I got the pint size. Which I like to call the “Japanese fatso size” because no one ever orders it unless they’re going to share it with like 4 different people. I chugged that sucker  singlehandedly. Yeah I’m a fatso in Japan. We soon left and when I got back I got a text. Let’s just say it was a kind of text that my female friends say shows that she’s interested. Of course I woulnd’t know, I’m completely baffled by girls, especially girls in Japan.

I went again the next day to hang out with her. It was going swimmingly. I even asked her out. Random I know. She said yes. Now you would think I would be happy, but no. I met Ben. Ben is a french foreign student with height, and a handsome face. Did I ever mention Belle lived in france for 6 years? So there was something else going on… After we hung out we decided to go back home. She decided to go clubbing with Ben…. Now I know I just said date, and you dont have to necessarily be exclusive, But I hope she doesn’t pull a Mr. Edey here. I’m overthinking and losing my groove… shit…

So it’s been a month. Thing’s have happened. I got fed up living in Hirasuna dormitories and decided to move. I’ve gotten fed up with class. I’m 4 assignments behind, but I don’t really care. Failed my Japanese Listening midterm. Imagine doing 50 odd questions, with no stopping, and no repeats. Fucking frustrated as all hell.

Anyways as the topic of this post goes I found a new apartment and have been taking care of that. I’ll be staying with a friend, sharing a two room apartment. I’m pretty much broke till the end of the week when new money comes in. It’s a nice place. Further from the University Gym, but it’s closer to classes. Shower, Washer, fridge, toilet, near food. So awesome.

I’ll post pictures later.

The school festival. Much like anime there were tons of food courts, shows, presentations, cafes, cosplay, maids, food!!!!! It was really fun. I went all three days. Didn’t stay all day each day. I was pretty overwhelmed by everything and was easily burned out.

Day 1 Saturday.

Today was the day I was going to hang out with my sempai. His name will be Snoopy. We were suppose to meet during the miday near the art library, but he was running late. During this time I met with my friend from the Kendo Club. Let’s call her… White Knight. So we waited together for Snoopy Sempai….

Okay the reason for the names. Snoopy is his actual nickname they already gave him. From what I heard he likes Snoopy from the Charlie Brown show/comic. White Knight… well when I first met her she was in an all white Hakama and Dogi. Such a bad ass. She freaking kills me in Kendo.

Before Snoopy Sempai came White Knight was telling me about Bijin, how she saw her and she was doing good. Yeah she knows. She was one of the girls that was present when I asked out Bijin.

We went around eating food, and we met up with another kendo friend who was working at the Kamakura booth… I think it was the kamakura booth… It started with a Ka. It was his hometown where udon is famous. It was good. We’ll call him Udon. Cause he can make it. We chatted for a bit and moved around looking at all the booths and sampling all the food.  We then met up another person from Kendo working at the Kendo Dokokai booth. Dokokai literally translates “anyone is okay” which would be better translated as the Kendo Appreciation club. Let’s call this guy Sake. Cause he gave our Snoopy sempai some alcohol. Man his face became so red. It was bad. As the day progressed White Knight left us, and me and Snoopy Sempai walked around the school looking for some more substantial food. We found it at an Okonomiyaki place. His friend was working there. Her nickname will be Idk. Snoopy sempai was harassing her into speaking english or we wouldn’t purchase anything. She seems fun. Kind of cute. Idk for I dont know.

Sempai had to soon leave to meet his parents So I went back home. He was going to see the Seiyuu performance the next day and spend some time with his girlfriend on the last day so he wanted to meet up early for the Nurses booth on Saturday. They were giving massages, and Bijin might be working there… Oh how a man’s mind works. I thought it was a good idea, but I decided I was just going to be there, and not get a massage.

Day 2 Sunday.

Well I met with my fellow foreigner friends before 12. Umm… nicknames… shit… Silver and Gold. I dont know… Silver cause it’s part of her username for something or other. Gold… well she hangs out with silver. Silver and gold, silver and gold… sorry random christmas song from some movie… If you know it props to you.

Silver needed a haircut so we went to the place where I got my hair cut. Oh yeah I got a hair cut. I’m confusing more people by making them think I’m Nihon Jin. It’s funny. She took awhile choosing to dye, cut and shampoo her hair. Needless to say after she was done it was pretty cool.

We went around together and then I got call from S-san. He wanted to meet up because he finally had time to come to Tsukuba and hang out with his girlfriend. Me, Silver, and Gold split up at this point and went our seperate ways.

S-san was doing good… the lucky bastard. His cute girlfriend… let’s call her Mi-san. We met before. She was helping me find a church. Anyways we went and saw the equivalent to Mr. Popular, where a bunch of guys were trying to impress the crowd. It was pretty sad. After that we went around other booths eating food. Yes lots of food. takoyaki, dango, etc. After we discussed somethings like how I’ve been how are people at ICU, do I have a girlfriend, or have I found one. I told them what was current with Bijin.

We later went to go see a dance performance by the group Real Jam. They were okay. In comparison to Kaba Modern nowhere near there level. After thats we split up cause he had to return home.

Snoopy sempai never did call me.

Day 3 Monday.

Ahhh the last day of the festival. I decided to text Snoopy Sempai about the massage and event. He called me and wanted to meet up. Sure why not. I met up with him and we talked about yesterday. We went into one of the buildings and went to the 5th floor. This is where I saw the sign saying “Gay Bar”. Now I’m pretty sure not all of the cross dressing males outside the classroom for their gay bar booth were actually gay. It’s a tradition here at the university. Every year the 1st year students of the Geijutsu school, IE the school of art do this. Not obligatory but Japanese people an their sense of duty are scary. Gei is pronounced like Gay so it’s a play on words.

We went past that much to my relief. We instead went into the Nurses booth… Shit… There was Bijin and another friend from kendo ( I sure meet up with my kendo buddies alot) she was also working. Let’s call her Alt, cause she’s an open minded alternative thinker. Well Bijin was watching us, and we waved. Come on we know her. Of course she wasn’t working, rather waiting to start, still on her break. My sempai paid for a massage for me, much to my shock and repeated requests of No. I can’t say no, otherwise I would be a hypocrite for my use of this system in Japan. Needless to say I got a massage, it felt good. The girl was cute too, cute enough to say “hey baby what’s your sign”, but unfortunately I’m not like that… Not yet anyways. She was talking about Bijin and well she said sempai. I kept this in the back of my mind for a bit. They’re the same age, so there must be a story.

Afterwards we wandered around again, eating, drinking, etc. We went by the same Okonomikyaki cart again and we harassed Idk again. Anyways I went in line to buy the okonomiyaki and Snoopy sempai and her were talking. He went back to me and talked. Now his English is good, there are some times where I’m confused or shocked at what he says. This is where I was both confused and shocked. “She wants to go play with us sometime”. Now… I asked him to repeat. He repeated the same thing again. I laughed and explained to him my thoughts on what he said. So apparently she wants to hang out and learn to speak English. I asked if you and her have ever hung out before. Apparently not. She probably just wants to learn English from a native speaker.

We later went and had some coffee and discussed relationships in America and in Japan. Well alot of the things I would do back home can not be done by Japanese Men. But he said it was okay if I did. I’m a foreigner. Everything is okay. Well that’s crap. I’ll later post something about relationships sometime later. I’ve been learning alot living here. He had to go meet his girlfriend later and I told him to go meet her at her workplace. It would be a nice change. If you’re going to hang out you should meet her at workplace. So he took my advice.

Apparently it worked the next time I saw him, he was going to meet with us, but his girlfriend who is the manager of our kendo club, (no nickname yet, havent talked with her) had to leave, so he decided to stop and escort her back home… wtf? So not Japanese now…