Meiji-Gakuin University’s festival

My plans for today were to get my laundry taken care of and to go to Meiji-Gakuin University’s festival. I was a bit slow to get up because I just didn’t feel like it. So, I ended up getting up in the afternoon, which seems to be usual for my days off. I was talking with YSki online and I talked all the way up to around 3pm. I was supposed to leave for the festival at around 1pm to meet my friend that has a booth there. So obviously I was a bit late.

I really needed to hurry to get my laundry done before I left, so I overloaded the laundry machine hoping that it would work out. But after an hour later I checked it and it seemed like it worked. But the problem was that the owners of the machine or my landlords told me not to overload it next time. It was making a lot of noises and there was a smell of burnt something. I looked at my clothes carefully and saw that one of my underwear was caught onto something and ripped. But I think that was an unfortunate circumstance. I got a little bit of a lecture about not overloading it from the grandma and now I’ve learned my lesson.

Soon after that, I left the house to walk to Meiji-Gakuin University. I really don’t know where it is, and it is hidden, but I know the general area of where it was. So I just walked till I found a route that took me through the trees and onto the big hill. At first I thought the building that I was going towards was the building to the campus since I saw it online, but I realized when I got there that it wasn’t it. But fortunately for me, but it was right behind the building that I was going towards. I was really lucky and it took me about 30 minutes from my house to walk to the campus entrance. I got lucky that I didn’t get lost too.

Now the next task that I had before me was to find the location of my friend. She sent me a message saying she was in the 7th building, so I was just walking around the school till I found it. The school looks much bigger on the map than it is in real life. I just walked down a little ways and I found where the 7th building was. Then I went up to the 2nd floor and walked around to look for my friend, but I couldn’t find her. I thought that she was inside of the room listening to the lecture, but it turns out that she was outside of the room right next to the area I passed twice and I just didn’t see her. When I found her and she found me, she gave me an aroma massage for my arms and shoulder. I was actually very surprised that it was very nice. I felt much better since I was feeling sick this whole week and the scents usually bother me, which it still did, but was better since I couldn’t smell anything this week. She spend about 15-20 minutes to finish up and this was around 4:40-5pm. So I was just talking with her and stuff. It was a good experience and I got to see a lot of the campus.

I was really disturbed at how cold the weather was since it was June already. It was only a little humid and I was only sweating because I had walked from my house to the campus. But inside it was nice and cool and the lotions that she used made me feel colder. A disturbing observation that I had was that I was much lighter in skin than I have been previously. Since I’m always wearing a suit, I’m very pale in skin color and I haven’t gotten a tan in years. I stuck around till they were cleaning up and packing things up to get ready to leave. This was around 6pm, but they didn’t finish cleaning till around 7pm. So then when they left the school, I went with my friend to Totsuka station and we would have dinner together. She took me to an area of Totsuka station that I haven’t been to before. It’s a little further than the McDonalds on the west side of the station.

We had dinner at a small hole in the wall Chinese Restaurant. We ordered two sets that were really good. It was nice and I could get free rice refills so I got three of them. This was actually a lot for me because I usually don’t eat that much. We were sharing the food, so it was pretty good to try all of it. At the end I was trying to read something Japanese, but realized that my kanji reading isn’t up to par. I have to study a lot more and I need to get cracking on that now since I will be starting UCLA soon. Soon after we finished, I walked her back to Totsuka Subway station since that’s how she would go home and I ended up walking home from there. It didn’t seem that long walking home even though it was fairly cold at this time. I was afraid that my cold would get worse because I was doing that.

When I got home, I just couldn’t get to bed. I was sleeping, but working on something, so I just didn’t fall right asleep. I wanted to check my computer for viruses and spy ware and that kept me up till around 3am. That’s not good because I know the end result will be me getting up really late tomorrow morning.