Doko Kara Kimashita Ka?

they's a typhoon comin'. we saw it on the news yesterday kicking tokyo's ass. it's too far south to effect us too much up here, but the weather's been weird (extremely humid and extremely windy at the same time) and the kakunodate festival could get postponed or canceled altogether. i haven't been up to a whole hell of a lot lately. been talking a lot with a few groups of people, hanging out in the res hall lobby and the cafeteria, blabbing for hours at a time, so that's been good. i dropped the art history class, so now i only have three classes. next month, i can join the kanto club here at school and play taiko in next year's kanto festival. sugoi. yaddle wadle woddle, stuff and whatnot, pfft. yeah, not too much to report right now...

my intro to japanese society class seems really cool. the teacher basically started with a long family story about how his connection to japan developed, and he didn't leave anything out, including stuff that most people might consider too painful to talk about, like his wife's death and great uncles p.o.w. experience. he routinely takes groups of students into town for movies and jazz shows, and the only assignments are one or two presentations anytime during the semester, and a final report for which we pick our own subject. sounds pretty damn good. shherrrmmmmm..... gonna go eat lunch. more as events develop.