Daily Life, or - Look, I`m on T V!

Each morning around 7:30, Crystal comes and pokes me out of sleep, and I get dressed and we go for breakfast at the Clubhouse - one of the cafeterias on campus whereat two meals a day were paid for as part of the cost of our trip.
Usually, there`s a bit of free time and then the whole group will go off for our activity for today.
Today, we went to the KBC TV studio (They`re channel 9) and had a tour. It started off with getting to look around the set for their morning show, アサデス (Asa Desu - It`s Morning) and then watched them set up and film the first ten minutes ish live. That was pretty cool.
Then, it was upstairs to the control room. There were gianormous boards of switches and knobs and sliders. I could have had endless fun in there. But I decided to let things be.
Afterwards, it was into a radio studio. We got to fiddle around with things a little, and our guide told us about how the studio we were in (one of four?) was designed for live music, since it was big and had boom microphones. We walked from there into the control room (half the group at a time) of another radio studio and watched the radio people do their show for a little bit. Takahashi loved my hair. He was one of the radio guys*.
After that we walked through the newsroom - which was a lot like you see on TV shows expet not so busy - and then into another studio, where we had some fun taking pictures in front of the blue weather screen, which I`ll have even more fun with in photoshop at home.

*Incidentally, this isn`t the first time radio people liked my head. In Kagoshima, we saw DJ Pocky and DJ (some name in japanese that I couldn`t read) in their booth near a mall doing a live broadcast, and they loved me and talked about me on air.

afterwards, we wandered around Tenjin, a bit shopping area that we all have been spending a lot of time in. Kevin and I ran into a random film crew and decided to film them because it was funny. Turned out they were doing a segment for the very show we watched from the studio. The bit they were doing was for next week. We lost the rest of the group because of that, except Crystal who waited. Yay her.
Kevin split off and crystal I and a goat got some lunch. But the goat was being rude to people, so we ditched him, not wanting to be associated with someone so boorish. I had steamed meat buns and takoyaki and some sort of yummy-cooked hardboiled egg that they do here. Oishii! Delicious, if you don`t know.
Home again Home again Jiggity Jog.

The other meal we eat every day at school is dinner. The cooks names are Moto and Tomo. For the first couple weeks, I thought it was one dude who`s name I couldn`t remember properly, and another who`s name I didn`t know. They cook different things for us every day, and it`s always good. Lunches we are on our own for.
One day, we ate at Ichiraku Ramen, the same shop that the main character of a certain anime loves to go to. Turns out, the creator went to the college I`m here at now (Kyushu Sangyo University) and frequented that particular ramen shop. Nice!

Things have become kind of routine. I can tell my Japanese is improving. I`m already doing better at understanding people and making myself known, but I have a long way to go. I want to keep getting better.
With only a week and a half left, I`ll don`t think we`ll be able to do enough to satisfy me and want to go. I like it here.


...Incidentally, the title of this post was a lie. I wasn`t on TV.