Typhoon 22 Blues

A lot has happened in the last 2 days. On Thursday, I finally met with my academic advisor, finance professor Kamoike Osamu. He was nice and our meeting was helpful, if incredibly brief. Now I have some economics and finances classes to audit, which, if nothing else, sound like they will be very difficult to understand. And I was also assigned two tutors who are paid by the school to help me set up my schedule and figure out life at school, etc. Pretty exciting stuff. Yesterday I had my first Japanese class, Kanji. It's going to be pretty challenging I think since I placed into a class that is above my level, but oh well. Who doesn't love a challenging class about Chinese characters.

Last night I went out with some kids in Sendai for the first time after living here for almost 3 weeks. It was refreshing. The kids were these 4 girls I met in one of my visits to former homestay dad's english classes. They took me out to eat yakiniku at Gyuukaku (which has now officially become the restaurant establishment I have gone to the most with kids here in japan). The food was good, the conversation was good, and we had the second floor all to ourselves! Sweet. The girls said they would take me out on a roadtrip sometime to check out the neighboring areas; i hope they werent just saying that to be nice! (thought hey probably were).

Today I was supposed to hang out with another Japanese kid, but she got sick and lo and behold Typhoon 22 just touched down in Japan around Shizuoka. Which means a fun few days of pouring rain. Looks like I can't ride my bike for a few da - oh what's that? I lost the key to my bike's ring lock the other day, rendering it useless? Oh. Then I guess I wouldn't be able to ride it anyway!

My sad, sad bike is sitting outside of this building I'm in right now, locked up and drenched in rain. How pathetic.

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