what do you do in an average week? how often do you meet with friends? what kind of places do you go & what do you do?

just wondering (i'm bored)

Well now that I have a girlfriend, I meet with her twice a week... (She lives an hour away.) But other than that, I'm a home-body. Manga, anime, books, movies, games, programming, and various other hobbies take up all my time.

Just got a new job a few weeks ago, applying for a different program and looking for more work(don't like my current job but whatever pays I guess).Aside from that, I keep learning jp via multimedia and carry on with life(meeting up with friends is once in a while, since everybody is busy nowadays). But once I go back to school in the fall, it should pick up or potentially busy timetable.

Spend my days doing reps and working out. then go on about 2-4 dates a week small dates like coffee count so not that much time wasted. and out to bars and clubs with the guys 3-5 days a week. but I'm planning to get a job at an english cafe or something so probably less reps or more concentrated reps on a day I don't have classes come September. I plan to keep the english cafe as part time work but I want to get a better paying job where i do less work after a month or so.

Summer life: I temp. All my friends are gone on holidays. When I don't, I work out, play yidaki, or read. I've just discovered Foucault (Deleuze wrote a cool introductory book if you're interested). Also, that Doctor Who exists in books. But Rose isn't just the same. I plan on doing RTK3 very very soon.

I'm just living at home, studying Japanese and waiting to go to uni. None of my friends live nearby anymore

I work as a preschool teacher part-time. Outside of work, mostly what I do is study Japanese. However, on weekends, much of my time goes toward cooking and taking food down to my boyfriend in Berkeley (his studies don't leave him much time for cooking). It gives me a good excuse to see him each week

Pretty soon, this relatively laid back life of mine is going to get busy soon as I get back to school and prepare to transfer to SFCSU. Hopefully there will be enough time to study Japanese on the side!

How about you, IceCream?

Go to work/uni, come home, cook, do some studying, keep up with the current anime, sometimes do some gaming.

Social life nil - I figure I'll get round to that when I emigrate.

me? i sit in a rocking chair and smoke. yup, living life to the fullest...

IceCream Wrote:me? i sit in a rocking chair and smoke. yup, living life to the fullest...

now that's the life

I am retired so I have plenty of time. Most of my days or nights I study Japanese, chat, read around the internet, watch TV, Anime, listen to music, started doing physical workout, quit smoking, doing something for my education, and I am in the middle of changing my life.

When my condition allows me to, I go out to drink a coffee, or just go for a walk. There really isn't anybody that I'm close with right now. Most people are too old, and in the evening it is only youth. Those my age are working, or are otherwise busy.

I can't complain, and boredom is something, that is virtually unknown to me.

I enjoy being with friends and being social, but I'm an introvert by nature. I'm perfectly happy sitting at home reading/playing videogames, etc.

However, my boyfriend lives 40 min away. I normally visit him on weekends and we almost always see at least one of our friends each weekend. So it forces me to be more social :-).

Otherwise, on weekdays I have work from 8-5 or 6, I exercise a couple times a week, study Japanese, play videogames, and read (normally science fiction/fantasy, but I like all genres).

Overall I'd say I enjoy my life and my hobbies :-). My work is interesting (computer programmer), but I'm not super excited about it. But I don't dread Mondays either. My workplace and work is pretty relaxed and people are friendly and very "chill."

Starting DePaul in September, and then I'll be commuting to Chicago twice a week. Right now I work part-time and study Japanese. About 6 or 7 weeks ago I started lifting weights at the gym, so I've been doing that 3 times a week. And for the past 3 weeks I have also talked to a Japanese girl every day. Since she can't speak English, it helps me study Japanese, and also I like her, so there's that. If I succesfully plan my trip to Osaka, I'm definitely going to meet her.

I don't hang out with friends that much, since... I don't know. They never really ask me, and I never bother asking them. There's only so much rejection you can take before you just give up seeing if they want to hang out. I'm usually talking with my close friends through Skype, and playing video games.

Fun fact: I haven't shaved my facial hair in a week and a half.

Starting a Bsc course of software engineering on a fairly good university , I've quit my call center job, so know I'm applying like hell, there are a few possibilities in reach I guess, other than that, I've quit my apartment going to find a new one, with roommates, so I can socialize more easily, started taking some mood-correcting medication, called Frontin, so I can think more clearly, just took an MRI scan, started learning french, japanese is in the a parking lot atm, dating a few girls online. That's how it is for me atm.
It will get better hopefully...

monkeys. everywhere.

Raschaverak Wrote:dating a few girls online.

A few?

I study Japanese during the day and fight crime at night shouting 「お前ら！終わりだ！」

TheVinster Wrote:

Raschaverak Wrote:dating a few girls online.

A few?

Eh... Some of the girls I dated online turned out to be Michele Bachmann's husband in real life.

Social life? Whassat?

I work anywhere from 0-8ish hours a day and am at work for probably a couple hours more than 8. I'd guarantee at least an hour on top of what I'm paid for, and and more if there's big breaks between visits. I only get paid if people show up, and so far, in three days, I have 7 cancellations and 2 no-shows. WHOO. This job is hard sometimes.

Otherwise I'm...at home, school, work. That's about it.

Usually spend 12 hours a day at uni but a few days a week I go out with friends/they come round to mine. The social scene outside of school is mostly all Japanese but that's become less because of "study" and more just because that's how life is now! Church on sunday? Spend time with my gf when the opportunity arises. Study way too much. Home life is cool because I have a Japanese flatmate and she's hilarious. Basically eat out all of the time now cos I'm rarely home. See my family from time to time and they're always an interesting bunch. Through school and other things there's always social gatherings of Kiwi's/Japanese so I go to those a lot and make new friends/catch up with old ones/complain about how no one going to uni can actually speak Japanese unless they are korean.

Iunno... a busy students life.

DevvaR Wrote:I study Japanese during the day and fight crime at night shouting 「お前ら！終わりだ！」

キサマ！死ね！

Thanks for nice topic, Icie, I was bored too. My normal week includes some work, some study, hanging out with friends if the opportunity arises (they all live far away), playing games, watching anime, and other stuff that may just happen. This wonderful life is soon going to end, as I start a new, interesting job in September. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my holiday in Japan and preparing for コミケット..

TheVinster Wrote:Fun fact: I haven't shaved my facial hair in a week and a half.

Fun fact, I cut myself badly this morning x_x


Bloody (literally) cheap hotel razor.

paasan Wrote:

TheVinster Wrote:Fun fact: I haven't shaved my facial hair in a week and a half.

Fun fact, I cut myself badly this morning x_x


Bloody (literally) cheap hotel razor.

Stop watching Japanese suicide pact flicks!

mezbup Wrote:complain about how no one going to uni can actually speak Japanese unless they are korean.

Yep, that's me, one of the handful of non-korean studiers of Japanese at my uni who can't speak properly. *discouraged*

Since I moved to Taiwan, everyday is pretty much the same:

Get up, go on internet to check emails/forums. Do Hanzi reviews, study Chinese, more internet then eat lunch whilst watching (English language) TV. Then more internet or video games till 5pm, get bus to work, teach for 2 hours, get bus home, eat dinner, chat to girlfriend/play PS3, bed.

Weekends are the same except instead of going to work, me + girlfriend go shopping or to a night market.

I used to have a really active social life in London, but now I have no English-speaking friends and there's nothing to do here anyway - all nightlife in Taichung got closed down due to some big nightclub fire. I like living here but the repetition is already starting to get to me.