Day 11 – DORM BBQ

Today is a more unique day, we are having a dorm bbq session. It cost only 500 yen and its held at the Shonai Ryokuchi Park. A total of 6 dorms came together for this session. I estimated around 50+ people turn up. I met new friends! Interesting the BBQ session have not only Japanese but people from the USA, China and so. It kinda sad that I couldn’t speak Japanese well but there are ways to communicate!

44089930_1742755779180154_5367776454966771712_o — Group Photo

We ended the day with a game of BINGO. Sadly, I didn’t win anything but it was a unique and interesting experience. The grand prize was Disneyland tickets and there were like 20 prizes to giveaway! One of the funniest prizes is 30 bottles of 500ml water LOL.

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Back to project work tomorrow! We have around 9 more days to the first prototype showcase! Hope everything goes well!

Day 10 – Atsuta Shrine, Random Sport Event, Cat Cafe & Arcade!

It Saturday and we decided to go to the Atsuta Shrine! So it located 30min away from our dorm at Jingunishi station. The place is HUGE, massing around 5 shrines at the area with the main shrine. We manage to witness a traditional Japan wedding and get to try their known Kishimen at the Miya Kishimen Jingu shop.

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After that, we decide to roam about the area. We found this park with an event going on, serving free food and drinks! They were having some sort of sports event between 4 teams. IT WAS MADNESS, everyone is so actively participating in the event.

Random Sport Event

FREE YAKITORI?

RED TEAM TENTAGE

After that, we decide to head to Sakae to get some stuff. While we were there, we decide to drop by at a nearby cat cafe. It was like 200 yen for 10 min and you have to buy an all you can drink for 350 yen. It was an interesting experience, we probably visit an owl cafe next!

Sleep

What an interesting way to sleep

We decide to drop by at the arcade to play some pachinko & medal game. We don’t get why is pachinko so popular in Japan but the medal game. Holy shit, it was so crazy. The sound the coins dropping have never felt so exciting before. Also with the minigames involve and I also almost won a jackpot. It was a fun experience.

JACKPOTTTT

THAT BEEF

RANDOM FESTIVAL

Tomorrow is BBQ with the dorm people! Hope to meet new friends!

Day 9 – First Company Talk and Japanese Lesson

So it seems for this next few weeks, we will be having Japanese classes with the luggage teacher and company talks every Friday. Of course, the company talks are all in Japanese, and they speak so fast that it is hard for me to even understand but it is a good experience. Today the company that was giving the talk was DELIGHT WORK INC. The creators of Fate Grand Order! Very interesting to see that the company was talking about the game industry in Japan and comparing it to the outside world. Also showing the growth of new genes that are growing now.

20181013_003627 — Free Gift during the talk

The Japanese class was interesting as well. They share about the social norms that Japanese have and our teacher gave us tips when coming to communicating with them. I can see it being very helpful and I probably try during the next session with my Japanese group mates.

BREAD

ONE PIECEE

Today ends up quite short time for project work but I manage to get the state pattern machine working for my Slime. Now for more improvements. Tomorrow we are visiting Atsuta Shrine (熱田神宮) to see one of the Japanese most important shrines.

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Day 8 – Half Day?

I swear I got to the point I have no idea what to write during school days. It always the same cycle, Breakfast -> Project Work In Morning -> Lunch -> Project Work till of school.

Today I guess it was supposed to be half day? We are allowed to leave like right after lunch but we decide to stay at finish our task at hand. Noting much for today but we found an interesting store and it made me buy something. Japan has many interesting concepts, this store at Osu Kannon, it is a store that clothes price are determined by the weight of the object. I decide to buy pants that weight 420g which cost 420 yen, THAT IS A STEAL! In future, I probably drop by if I am near the location to see there any good steals to get!

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Lunch was Saizeya again but this time with their lunch promo! IT ONLY COST 500 YEN? TAKE MY MONEY! Dinner was a surprising tuna bowl? I was shocked to see my dorm serve this for dinner. Is tuna on sale?

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I hope tomorrow will be great! Since we will be having Japanese Lesson and a Company Talk/Sharing! Looking forward to it!

Day 7 – Task Allocated

With most of the stuff discussed! We finally allocated the task to everyone. It was a challenge to communicate due to the language differences. To prevent miscommunication and misunderstanding. We spend tons of time discussing and making sure everyone on the same page. Normally, communicating through the same language will probably take less then a min but when both parties can’t speak a common language that timing multiply. We that out of the way, finally we can start on coding! We have around 2 weeks to create a prototype for the next tea session.

Did I say tea session? Yeah! I didn’t know what is it about until today. It was displayed on our schedule. So the tea session, It like some sort of chit-chat and to update on the progress of each group to the teachers. There were snacks lying around for us to eat! The Finland student also brought their local snack called “Salmiak”. It tastes salty and has a texture of a nut and it has a unique after taste that most of us don’t really appreciate it. Personally, I love it!

Too end it off! Have some food porn.

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