Freezing in Sapporo

I may or may not have emphasized this enough in my previous posts, but itsfriggen freezing over here. I didn't really bring too many winter clothes with me, but I'm supremely glad that I packed my toque. The day after I arrived in Sapporo it snowed 15 cm. That didn't stop many of the girls from donning their miniest skirts to brave the weather (sorry dudes, no pics). Well I had a couple of days to kill before school started to I spent them trying to get to know the city and meeting my classmates and whatnot, but before I getinto that, I'd like to introduce you to a good friend of mine. You've already met his little brother, so let me present to you, the smallest apartment ever. Ok, so from the bed, I can reach over into the "kitchen" and open the fridge to grab myself a cold one, which is not entirely a badthing. Actually the whole room is not entirely a bad thing. Yes, itssmall, but it is pretty well furnished, with lots of storage to get all my crapout of the way. The bathroom and shower are outside, and are supposed tobe shared, but since something like 60% of the rooms here have their ownbathrooms, there isn't much sharing to take place, which suits me justfine.

Ok, on with Sapporo. So I went shopping, and walking and a bunch ofother things that no one cares about, but I also went to the Sapporo BeerMuseum.. We first went for lunch at the Ghenkis Khan style (similar toKorean BBQ, but they have lamb) restaurant for lunch and hit the museum withhigh hopes of the famed free all you can drink beer for 20 minutes (check your Lonely Planets for this misinformation) only to find out that if such a thing did exist atone time, it doesn't any more. You can, however, get a small beer for about 200 yen, which is not too shabby, and it was the first time I tasted Sapporo Classic, which is only available in Hokkaido.

Ok, ok, so my next post will *finally* talk about school.