Alysse Abroad

For those of you who are here in search of information about either ICU or Japan as a whole, below are a few lists of posts that you may find helpful. You can find a complete list of the posts on this blog in the right sidebar, but I assume most of my visitors would rather not search through my personal posts in order to find information. Please let me know if there is anything you would like to know about that I haven't yet posted about, or if you have any questions at all. I want to be as helpful as possible!! Generally Useful Things Coping with Culture Shock 40 Things You Didn't Know Money Matters What Japanese Money Looks Like Getting a Cell Phone A Brief Lesson on Keigo Touring The ICU Area Entrance of the School Around Campus Global House Ginkgo House Dialogue House Honkan Library D-Kan and Bookstore A Day in My Life Nogawa Park (Near ICU) ICU's Surrounding Area Places Around Japan Imperial Palace Hiroshima and Miya...

Before I jump straight into this list, I want to clarify that some of these points may be generally incorrect, or could be exclusive to Tokyo.  I could also have some of my reasonings wrong.  This list is simply something I compiled based off of my own experiences throughout the year that I lived and traveled throughout Japan. This list is also not, in any way, a complete one.  I'm sure if you search the internet you can find many other very true facts about Japan that I have forgotten to list here. In urban areas there will, at any given time or place, be at least one コンビニ ("conbini" / convenience store) within walking distance. Japanese people don’t usually have  middle names . Japanese people are very interested in each others' blood type - it's like astrology in America, except people take it very seriously.  Expect to be asked what your blood type is at least once. Japanese deodorant supposedly doesn't work very well.  I brought my own deodo...