on new roomies

so my facebook friends may already know about the new japanese monk living in my room, but for everyone else, here's the skinny.

he's a small korean man. he introduces himself as a japanese buddhist mendicant monk. so those are a few oddities already. he sits in this room sometimes and just reads in a loud voice droning on and on for as long as a half hour. he has a REALLY nice computer for a guy with a vow of chastity, and a $300 coat. he made me teach him how to do computer things for like half an hour, insisting on things in partly broken english. i'd say "i don't understand" to which he would reply WITH THE EXACT SAME PHASE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. "it keeps being nines." eventually i figured out he wanted me to delete one of his bookmarks. he's also getting ready to buy an ipad.

on the other hand, he's taken me out to eat three times, which is nice of him. he says monks prefer giving to receiving and that buddhism is the best religion, no enemies, no wars. then i remember that people gave him this money for standing on the street, and feel kinda bad that someone else isn't getting helped.  he's also brining back like 2000 dollars a day for like 5 hours of standing outside (this is what i hope my salary to be when i start working full time at a school). this seems insane, why isn't the temple taking more of this??

it's getting to the point where everyone here is thinking he's a fraud. why isn't he staying in the temple, and why is he complaining that no one speaks the right languages? he also has very strong opinions about other countries (including taiwan).  i've never met a racist monk before.

okay i'm over that rant.

i also have a new roommate named justin who i've been going out with to like a far east movement concert, some museums and a hot spring tomorrow. it's waaay better doing things with another person than by yourself, this is a nice change of pace.

update later or tomorrow about this concert, i need to facebook friend the guy who had taken the pictures. (spoiler alert - it was amazing)