Movie Theater Culture and Getting in..

Going to the movies here is very interesting and of course obviously different. So I'm going to write this in bullet form

• Every Wednesday, there's a ladies' day a ladies' day consist of ladies paying $10 or 1000 yen to go see the movies.. but it tends to get packed sometimes... eek
  
• You literally have to plan to see the movies it's not like back in the states where you can just show up and the showtimes are one hour a part here it is different here is a good example:

Pink Panther 2 9:00 AM

Road Rage 11:00 AM 5:00 PM

Red Cliff 1:00 PM 7:00 PM 10:00 PM

But on the bottom they also show when the movie ends to which is pretty neat. But yea, that's how the movie times are they're spead out and it's not by hour by hour it's like one showing 1:00 PM next showing 8:00 PM. Sometimes they'll even have one showing for that day. I also like how the movie theaters are sparkling clean meaning when you take your seat you don't step on popcorn or leftover juice which makes the sticky sound with your sneakers. Other than that, I went to school and I'm doing the the shodo circle *calligraphy club and Unesco. Even though, they may seem clicky at first I made an attempt and so during calligraphy club I was talking to the senpai and for the first time we had a deep conversation on the differences between japanese and american friendships. For the first time, I felt that connection and I felt as if he was opening up. It was nice having that sort of a deep conversation. During the conversation he was suprised by the amount of friends people have on myspace esp. when I said like 300 hehe and he told me that here friendships are "fukai" which is the word for deep. Even though, they haven't been doing calligraphy for a while. It was nice having a deep conversation for once. The friends that I have here are both international and japanese the international ones (other exchange students) are the ones where I can speak english too and talk about the culture and help relate. Where as in Japanese ones well how else am'I going to improve my japanese. Even though, some may say well the only friends you should have are japanese since you're studying abroad personally I think it's good to have a balance. I think it's neat to have an international buddy too because then you can relate and express your fusterations if you have a problem easily. Other than that, I will keep you posted peace!