Self Introduction Fail

So today we (as in the exchange students) had to give self introductions and meet the president/chairman of the University but when arriving we find out he had been hospitalised. However ceremonies still had to go on so instead we meet the head of international affairs instead. Okay  introductions blah blah blah everything thing was going well but then it came to my introduction after the Chinese and Korean students introduction which by the way was amazing. At that point I was thinking "Don't mess this up. Don't mess this up. Don't mess this up"  but what do I do I go and mess it up. So i was standing there my mind went blank,; cold sweat starting to seep out; hands were shaking; I couldn't read my notes and my voice started stuttering. i was speaking but i swear i was not making sense  but yeah finally I stopped  and sat down then  the introductions carried on with me being embarrassed and self confidence down the drain... I'm just glad it's over but thinking back even if that was in English i still would have messed up big time..........
Okay after this short time at Uni we went to get our Alien cards at the ward office finally but some how i  managed to hurt my leg again  bad times also i bought an umbrella that looks like a sword whoo..........

 Epic umbrella don't you agree

And that's my alien card  my photo for this  card and my university card in Japan is horrible it looks like I  time travelled from the 70's to get this card.

Okay so hurting my leg i did this about a week ago  outside a seven eleven convenience store. In Japan most car parks have this block of cement which is meant to stop cars from parking too close to the  store or wall so the block is there to stop the wheel, yeah so i trip over one of these didn't  fall over just lost my footing  i stood back up fine but  my leg been hurting since then. I keep on hurting this  "bad" leg making the injury worse like tripping over more of these blocks / just being clumsy on the whole.... i hope this is just a sprain and isn't anything major......

PS. I was meant to post this before 12 i guess i forgot lol so yeah....

EURGH!!!!

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH BLOODY F***ING ROAD WORKS..................
Man I had this jet-lag/sleeping thing in the bag, I thought it was done and dusted, but i guess i was wrong. I managed to sleep at the right time so far, through sheer will power  and  the fact that on the flight to Japan i didn't actually sleep, however recently due to nights out and the arrival and installation of the internet at my flat, sleep has been evading me. It really doesn't help with the loud roadworks near me starting proper early, it sucks MAJORLY. (And  talking about Sucking here's a photo of my friend Katy eating a choco-banana(Katy is from my uni in England and is here on the exchange program with me))

Talking about the roadworks near me the other day I thought I had experienced my first minor earthquake but nah it was just the construction vehicles  shaking the whole apartment building......man this story sounded so much better in my brain.

But yeah the blue crane has some fat arse drill attached to it and that is what's shaking the whole neighbourhood.

Well anyways second day of starting this blog and about day 22/23 in Japan so far classes at Uni have been  fine no major catastrophe where I've been lost in translation  but most of the classes have been fine i suppose.....Hmmm... What else is new oh yeah i received my electricity bill today  it was less than i expected even though i  feel like I'm using  electricity  for 5 people it only reached about 400 or so yen this month which is good more money for me to spend......YAY! \o/


So yet again backtracking to the time when i didn't have internet (>insertforwardslash) didn't think of writing a blog it was Patrick's birthday.

This here is Patrick >>>>
Patrick is also an exchange student at KSU and so is the person next him,  we will talk bout him some other time. So yeah Patrick and Ben are both from Germany from what I've heard from them some area near Stuttgart, but yeah was his birthday on Sunday though we did have a small party a his on Sunday where most people made food and brought it with them  had chat drank large volumes of alcohol and had a ball though some people did carry on the festivities in Tenjin  one of the more urbanised areas of Fukuoka I didn't go as did some other people. the point i was getting at here was that  another of the exchange students got pretty plastered and nearly fell oout the door on her way out of Patrick's place...you see I fail a stories but yeah here's a photo of GOKU to make up for the bad story....

BTW that's Joel behind the mask,  he's Katy's boyfriend and our sempai both from the KSU and LJMU

(our uni in Liverpool)

Also here's some photos of my phone in Japan it's old school but it works:

So........

HMMMMMMM....... Sooooo.......Okay now I've got it.................Captains log starda....wait a minute.........okay lets try this...... HI I'm new to this as you can see, blogging was never really my thing, though I thought since I'm in Japan now I should start something. It was between this or doing a vlog but this seemed more natural than talking to a camera, I think....

yeah this is me  here ...........................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

But yeah enough of my nattering. I've now arrived and have been living in Japan for 20 or so days slowly getting use to the climate, the surroundings, the people and Japan on the whole. Living here so far definitely  burned a hole in my pockets ... Ah money. Sweet money. 

Why do you leave me so...... but yeah currently I'm staying in Fukuoka, a city and a prefecture based in the island of Kyushu which is in the South of Japan. Weather here currently is good  nice and warm, but believe me when I say the weather here was uninhabitable for most  people and especially a British person i.e. me, who revels in our miserable weather back home, just a few days before I posted the weather had reached up to that of 35-37 degrees Celcius with a humidity rating of around 80%. Don't understand, right...Imagine this, you're walking at a normal pace for ....erm lets say around  5-10  minutes, then you realise you are soaking wet, sweating so much it would seem as though some one thrown a bucket of salt water over you.
NOT PLEASANT NOT PLEASANT AT ALL.
But THANK GOD for vending machines being 5 minutes away WHERE EVER you are. Ah good old vending machines just here so you can replenish the bodily fluids you sweated out YAY now you can SWEAT more. 

Enough of this blabbering about the weather as we do so yeah  Japan has been fun so far even with the blistering heat for the first 2 weeks I was here. One thing I did not anticipate in Japan though was the amount of paperwork and how by the book everything has to be done, especially with  mobile phones. I think getting a mobile here has been of of the less appealing things about Japan. Just to open a cheap contract entails you waiting  for the staff to describe every single detail on the terms and condition and every line of small print on the contract  thoroughly,  before anything can be sign/ filled out. After that  the wait for the phones is also ridiculous, this wait is for them to contact the ward office  to find out if you are a legit alien in their country and worthy of obtaining a phone.....all hail the mobile phone.....So all in all the wait was about 3 hours and that's just to get a cheap contract phone i can imagine to get the newest, flashiest phone in the Japanese Telecom/electronics market would take you a day in the store..... or on the contrary  maybe it would take you ten minutes as it is so expense. 

Okay now I really am blabbering so cutting to the chase I have done other things since arriving and here's a short list with so PWETTY  Photos I have done here so far are:

went to a matsuri (Japanese festival); 

opened a Japanese bank account; gone to Uni;

Went to karaoke (yeah that's me drunk with the monkey on my head);

Been to Yakiniku (Japanese barbecue );

went to a Japanese club; 

watched Japanese TV; ate some other Japanese food and slept..........ALSO drinking some Japanese alcohol... yeah its been good so far....