The Conditional is Useless

Have you ever heard "A Thousand Miles" (which I might still be able to play on piano) or "I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)"? Both claim they would walk a thousand miles for their loved one. Well, guess what? I don't need the conditional. By the time my exchange is over, I will have walked a thousand miles (average of eight hours a week for over forty weeks at a pace of about five kilometres per hour=1600km=1000m). Ironically I don't have a girlfriend. Is "bored, good with maps and money and able to travel long distances without a car or plane" anyone's type? I'll add that the Japanese think me good looking.

Also, I say to hell with conditional form because I'm getting tired of the Japanese English classes. They're worse than non-immersion French classes in Canada. I asked their teachers whether students could write in English, to which I got the unspoken answer of "no" (they wouldn't say it themselves, the best they could say was that they had to write an essay for the exam for high school, but I know how low the pass make is, they could (and in all likely hood, did) skip it without any trouble). I've also gone on rants about how they should learn how to speak the language as opposed to memorizing obscure sentence structures, to which the teachers almost agree, but remind me that it's not about learning English, it's about passing the exams. No wonder Kenji has so much trouble in these classes. All I can offer to their credit is that I've heard of someone who became fluent via this system, and I've seen hundreds who can't get through two sentences of a conversation with me. At least there's the punk rockers.


Aside from that, I'll be back in a month. I've still got a few things left to do, including some shopping... hmm, well I need to write the list down anyways, so,
I need to get:
twenty Calorie Mates (mostly for me)(Gavin can have some too)
two Gundams
some gold-leaf
a piece of tapestry
a Japanese comb
a book
a CD or two
two mangas if they come out before I leave
a game
more random gifts (I'd ask for help, but they're people who don't read this)
on that note, maybe an ooban (though I'll be keeping a five-hundred for myself)
and that should be about it. Anime itself is too expensive. I'm also looking for a recipe for melon bread. Remember, if there's anything you want, now's the time to ask (actually, that'd be pay day, July first, but now's good too).


Most of my plans for the rest of my stay go as such:
Concert on the twelfth
Karaoke with cute Japanese girls
Karaoke with 肉 singing dirty rap songs
See the sun set over the Sea of Japan
Do something (Tokyo?, hike?) with 肉
Translate Shyuna's Journey
Meet Western guests of Rotary from Seattle and cetera
Play video games with friendly otaku
Find a Japanese friend I can keep in touch with in Canada
Effect a revolution (a bit risky, but they could use it)
Get on a plane bound for Canada


Also, one of my hobbies right now is confusing people by being both "Yankee" (id est rebel) and otaku (id est extreme geek) and having them try to decide which I am. They have trouble with this because they assume I can only be a part of one stereotype, though they could just say "gaijin" (foreigner, outsider).

Anyways, that seems like enough for today.