first week -- flash back

This week was so fast that I didn't manage to update my blog... Therefore, I would like to share my life in this week briefly as my flash back!
On Monday, I had a first class at SOAS in the afternoon. It was about Israel popular music and politics. Looking the texts and video images of Israel pop, the popular songs have political implication. In this lecture and seminar, I found it interesting to analyse song texts.
On Tuesday, I went to a workshop, where I can talk and question about the study life in London and at SOAS. I could talk one to one with the current students. It was helpful as listening & speaking exercise, and I recognized again that it was necessary to improve my listening skill. Then, I went to have a lunch. As other students at SOAS wrote it, queues of people form in front of main building and burnai gallery at noon everyday. Many new students wonder about it, but it is for free lunch. In this day, I was with a new, adventurous Chinese friend so we tried this free food! The food was a sort of Indian curry with rice and brown suger cake. Since we were hungry, so we enjoyed it. Asking other Japanese friends who tried this food, they said it was OK. After that, I tried to meet my advisor. In the fifth floor of main building, there are many small individual rooms for teachers. The floor was like a big maze, and I walked around this floor twice before I found his room. Unfotunately, he was not there... In the afternoon, I attended a core course named Ethnomusicology in Practice. It was very very interesting, because I could understand well what the lecturer's said. The reason was I studied about the contents again and again at Geidai in Japan.
On Wednesday, I went to British library to make my reading pass. Actually, I went there on Thesday, but I turned down in my request because of luck of nesassary documentation. Anyway, I could make it in that day. The reason why I needed to use British liburary was I needed to collect all books on the long reading lists gave by lecturers. We, the students in the same class including me, must join in a scramble for books to read. It is not enough to use SOAS library, we need to go to 3 or 4 liburaries! Following it, I went to talk with my advisor. I needed to talk about my courses. New SOAS master students needed to sign-up their courses until this day. I already decided all courses to take until this day, but I didn't know well about "performance" course. I wanted to learn accordion. My advisor said, I can learn any instrument outside the university, and I need to pay a lesson fee. I need to take lessons as many as possible. The university will return some money (ooo pounds) to me after the programme ended. And I need to take a performance exam at the end of course. So I asked some university Institute for a teacher who can teach me accordion. This evening, there was Performance Fair and Indian, Chinese, Indonesian music were played there.
On Thursday, I found my face was so blue and pale. I spent exciting days at univerisity, but I put too more stresses on the body than I recognized. I woke up late in that morning, and I went out at noon. I visitied to the university library and printed out journals and books to read. At SOAS, students can print out by 5 pence each page. New students have 20 pounds or less charge from the first. We don't need to bring "copy card" because the "copy" system is controlled by computer. All we should do before printing out is to enter our ID number and password to the screen of copy machine. It is a convenient system, I would like my university in Japan to introduce this system.

This article must be not so fun for you. I'm just writing what I did. In the future, I would like to write interestingly and quicker! Thank you for reading!