This year
The day before yesterday the spring vacation started. I will be a sophomore in April. Last spring I entered Mie university. I experienced a lot of first things for this year. I had new acquaintances, friends and teachers. I got a driving license in summer. The Kyoto trip was so great, and so on. I have many nice memories.
I think the biggest change is that I started to live alone. I realized long ago that I must live alone after graduating from high school if I go to university. But I didn’t have a specific image about it. So I had much obscure anxiety and little hope when I moved to Tsu.
The first night I couldn’t sleep well because of extreme tension about my new life and the neighbor’s loud snore. Afterwards my bed was displaced. But I am still annoyed by his snore now. Another trouble, there was no refrigerator in house for a week. I experienced life without a fridge for the first time. It was a heavy week and I learned that a fridge is necessary.
I felt lonely because I was always alone in the new house. I always had to eat meals by myself and I had no appetite in those days. I couldn’t get accustomed to be alone. I wanted to have a meal with my family. I had a lot of housework. I appreciated my parents for bringing me up. I knew they always help me. I want to return them the favor little by little. I will go back home in the spring vacation.
Today I’m accustomed to living alone, I eat enough and sleep well. I often oversleep, though, and I can’t wake up early, which is my problem. But I think living alone is so comfortable for me. Try it?
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Comments (3)
Rudolf
wrote on February 17, 2006:
Very freaky: I’ve just found a photo of the room where I lived as an undergrad student. It may not be the exact same room, but it’s definitely room number 5. My room was on the twelfth floor, whereas the room in the picture may be on the tenth floor. It’s hard to tell with nothing to go on except for the view through the window.
Here’s more information (with pictures) on the place—and, of course, The Rules.
There’s even a rent chart. Let’s see: “single room with balcony, facing south”—that’s 350 CHF per month, which converts to—hold on a second—31,467 JPY. On average, how much does a student in Japan pay for accomodation?
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Aaron
wrote on February 17, 2006:
The first time I lived alone was when I was 18. I rented out a room in the basement of someone’s house. It had its own entrance, bathroom, and kitchenette. It was such a free feeling living there. I’ll never forget it.
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Bee
wrote on February 22, 2006:
The room and the view from the window look like a palace to me, Rudolf.
When I moved out from my parents at the age of 17 to live in the big city, I had to share a minuscule bedroom with 2 other girls. Just to give you an idea, in order to go out through the door we had to jump over the beds. The food was great though and we were allowed to watch TV in the living room. The elderly lady who rented it used to call us minhas menininhas (my little girls), frowned at every phone call and reported to out parents on every break in the routine. Our parents were obviously delighted to see us in such respectable hands but fortunately the experience did not last long as we rebelled after 3 months and chose to move to a bigger house with more diversity and less control.
The windowed-terrace(converted into a room) at the back was spacious and had no internal connection with the house, which was very convenient for our comings, goings and nocturnal escapades. However, during the day we were studying in a dark aquarium with closed curtains,in winter, it was freezing cold and on tropical rain days, we were showered and washed at the simple thought of getting near the bathroom. You also needed courage and a lot of determination to go out in your nightie and climb the stairs for a midnight wee pee.
Freedom and fun X comfort and control.Which one would you pick? Not difficult to answer this one, is it?
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