So things have been pretty settled and uneventful here. My classes are going well and I am pleased to report that I got all my first choices as far as they go (Yey for lottery number 87, it was karma for number 333 last semester). I had my first KGU field trip ever this weekend for Intro the Japanese History. We went to Asuka. Its in the Nara prefecture and has a lot of REALLY old sites to see. Still no camera charger so no photos, but I'll gank some from Leslie later. We spent the whole morning and afternoon biking from site to site, which despite the cold was really nice and invigorating. Today I had a test and am now sitting in the computer room as a means of wasting time till I am not the only one not in class.

btw there turned out to be issues with the homestay that I wont go into, in any case I have moved back to the dorms, but will keep in contact with the family. I am now in a single room in dorm 3, next door to Ann and her new roommate Anna (who is really nice). I'm thinking I wanna buy a denchi jisho (electronic dictionary) both for class and for practical casual purposes. I wanna make sure I make the most of the TEN (yes count them ten) chapters of intermediate Japanese I will be learning this semester. Hopefully by the time I am done with undergrad I will be ready to sit some level of the JPLT (they tell me students at my level can be studying for level 3 in the spring if we like but we'll see). Once I get up to that level I'll feel good about resuming Chinese or taking up a different language. I think it will be my goal to be semi-trilingual once I finish grad school. Back to a day in the life of a KGU student.