First impressions

I have finally gotten a fitting plug for my laptop, so here are you updates! (By the way, the shop assistant at the eletronics store was super helpful and went out of his way to make sure the plug would be okay. That's much more service than I am used to from Germany.)

Okay, first things first:
I got picked up at the airport with some other people who arrived at the same time, and we took the bus together to Shinjuku. There were more people waiting, and each of us new students was brought to our respective dorms by three (!) Japanese students. "Mine" were two really cute and nice girls and a guy who even carried my suitcase. (Why don't German guys don't do that???)

The first thing I saw when I got out of the bus was... a vending machine. I suspect there are more vending machines in Japan than people - but they're sooo handy! There's one right next to my dorm's entrance, and another few a bit farther away. I like the one that sells Dr. Pepper Cola. xD

My dorm is quite okay. The room I got is probably one of the biggest I could have gotten, and the only two toilets and showers per floor were totally okay until now. But not everyone has arrived yet, so maybe that might become a problem later. Especially since everyone's classes start at the same time. ^^;

My fellow exchange students are mostly nice, as far as I talked to them. I still try not to do that much with them, as I want t0 improve my Japanese and not my English! (Although most of them are not native English speakers either, so my English might even get worse. ^^;) Some of them can't even speak Japanese because they're here for some other programs. I like them, so I might do something with them once in a while, but it should not become a habit, I guess.
In my dorm, there are two really nice Korean girls with who I went to a nearby shrine festival last night. (Unfortunately, it rained cats and dogs. >___<) One speaks English fluently, and the other one is not bad either, but when it's the three of us, we usually speak Japanese, so that's much better.

Oh, I've had some cockroaches already! One is probably the same that keeps coming out at the lobby of building three (I'm in building 5), and we called it Gocchan (from gokiburi = cockroach xD) The other one fell out of my laundry after I took it out of the washing machine, so either it had been in there or in my laundry (ew!), but it probably didn't survive the washing (or my stepping onto it by accident ^^;)

Today, I have been to Shinjuku main statio and the shopping area around it again (I've been there on Friday for a while to get my alien card) and bought a nice shirt and the Best album of Kuraki Mai. (I was not sure whether to buy it because best albums are a bit... pointless in my eyes, but they had a huge poster of her at Tower Records and a stand where you could get stuff for free if you bought the CD, so I bought it and got stickers and a clearfile. <3 I can put my tons of material in there, but I guess it's too much. There's LOADS of information they want us to know, and still a lot more to come up.)

I still have to do some organizational stuff at university, like my Japanese placement test tomorrow, registration for classes and what not, and other stuff like opening a bank account and, most importantly, getting a cell phone. It's tough without a cell phone!!! I want to contact people, but I can't.

Well, I don't know what to write anymore, and I don't have many pics to upload yet, so I'll update again later. :)