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I’m Julie

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Hello!im planning to study abroad in japan soon and the school that im planning to attend, sophia university,doesnt have on campus dorm and from the description you wrote for other ask it sounded like you lived on one of the international house? (Soshigaya) if im wrong please go ahead and ignore this l!! But i wanted to know the the estimated monthly bills were bc it really isnt specified on the website and also if there were gym like with treadmills attached to the the soshigaya thank you!!!

Hey there, sorry for the late reply. I really can't remember much about the financial part of studying abroad because I really did not understand it too much. I just know I paid my rent late all the time 😆 sorry I'm not much help. I think it was about $800 which is not far off from what I was paying at my home university. And I loved living there. It was 12 stories high and each floor had a shared kitchen and laundry room and 2 showers. We all had our own rooms with a balcony and our own toilet room. I would love to live in a dorm again.

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okay so i want to study at waseda in the fall but i saw that the fall semester ends in february? does that mean i can't take classes spring semester at my home university or would i start the semester late? do you know anything about this?

The Semesters are mapped out differently in Japan, they occur at different times than here in the US. If you  go then its more likely that you will stay for a year, or two semesters. It depends on your school if you can take online classes while there or not, because with the CSU program it is as if you are taking classes at your home university, so US classes would go over the unit allotment. I hoped this helped?

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Japanese Vocabulary

基づく「もとづく」- to be based on sth, be founded on sth

詰める「つめる」- to fill (with), stuff (with), cram (into)

叶う「かなう」- to be fulfilled, be realized

従う「したがう」- to follow, to obey, to conform to, to keep [one’s word]

鮮やか「あざやか」- vivid, bright; brilliant, skillful

眩しい「まぶしい」- dazzling, glaring; overwhelmed, abashed

爆ぜる「はぜる」- to burst open, to pop

済ます「すます」- to finish; to pay back; to make do with sth

崩す「くずす」- to destroy, to demolish, to break a dollar bill (”break a twenty”)

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Shibuya 4 by HD41117 | Flickr

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

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La Plata Mountain, Colorado, USA by Jay Irwin

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Introduced my Grandpa to Siriacha sauce

And now he puts it on everything, including salads.

#we are so alike despite not being blood related #silly grandpa #siriacha #siriacha sauce #we like it spicy

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Is he mixed? If not is his hair that texture? If not how the hell he achieved this? Somebody answer.

-Pierre

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April 2015: maiko Hisamomo of Pontocho with custom cherry blossom kanzashi and high okobo shoes (SOURCE)

#if you haven't followed hotmessdesu you are missing out on life

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The daily life struggles of a TALL GIRL in Tokyo (Japan). Click Here

#not my problem lol #but maybe someone could find this useful

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Source For more posts like this, follow the Ultrafacts Blog!

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Mirror Teacups Reflect Colorful Patterns From The Saucers They’re Place on

More info: d-bros.jp | Shop (h/t: spoon-tamago)

D-Bro, a Japanese design brand, has created a unique set of mirrored cups called “Waltz” that gain their striking patterns and colors by reflecting them from the saucers they come with.

First, the cups, which are made from Hasami porcelain, are coated with palladium, a precious metal rarer than platinum and gold. The cups must be absolutely perfect, because any small distortion or bump will ruin the effect. Next, they are matched with saucers that have anamorphic designs (much like the artwork in our anamorphic mirror art post). These designs look distorted on the saucers but are transformed into more ordered forms by the mirrored cups.

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A Poster Featuring 25 Different Ramen Recipes From Cities of Japan

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Tokyo Skytree + Asakusa Temple Senso-ji (浅草寺) by TOTORORO.RORO on Flickr.

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What was your schedule in japan? Like school wise and did your college except the credits?

Well at Waseda I was taking these intensive language study courses. The intensive classes had 8 different levels, but both the ones I took required classes on 2 weekdays and a Saturday. We had to take 8 units of Electives, which were taught in English. And the classes were either 2 or 4 units, and we could have 2-4 electives depending on what we took. The Japanese language classes you have to take 7 units, and I THINK they ranged from 1-4, so again, the number of classes depend on the units they were worth.

Typically, I would sign up for classes that were close together (time wise) and on the same days. Thats how I did it at my home university as well. So I usually have 2 really busy days and 2 really light days, with that one saturday class.

One thing that made EVERYONE super mad, was the way we have to sign up for classes. First of all, their computer system for that was shitty, looked like it hadn't been updated in a decade or two. Also, after we signed up for the classes we wanted, we had to wait till the DAY BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL to find out if we got the classes or not. And they don't do “priority registration”, they do a random lottery. So you can possibly find out you only got 3 out of 8 of the classes you wanted, and when you sign up for different classes to replace those YOU STILL HAVE TO WAIT A WEEK TO FIND OUT IF THE MAGICAL LOTTERY GODS WILL GIVE YOU THAT CLASS. I have had friends who got accepted to 0 classes that first round, and took 4 weeks to get a full schedule. Lucky for me, it typically only took 2 rounds.

My college DID accept all of my credits, it required sitting down with the head of my department and judging what classes I took there could count for requirements I needed. A few were a bit of a stretch, but we did a good job and I dot think someone would take the extra effort to reject them anyway.