So this blog upkeep thing is pretty hard.  Looking back, we've done a lot the last few days.  Our first two days we walked as far as our legs would carry us (I have the blisters to prove it) and now we've started at GenkiJACS.  I'm glad I can finally start to study, I'm tired of being ignorant.  I want to communicate and understand.  So far people have been pretty nice to us, some kids in the park shouted "herro" after us, an old man thought really hard and then said "have a nice day", and the food stall guy outside of gourmet city was very helpful when I tried to buy takoyaki the other day. He now nods and smiles whenever he sees me.  Some people are rude- like the high school kids who were filming us.  But overall I really, really like everyone.  Our dorm head lady puts up with our stupidity (although she never explained what we were actually supposed to do . . . she just tells us when we mess up).  Our teachers and the school receptionists are very kind and usually hilarious.  I also made friends with some of the girls in our dorm!  It was a challenge to communicate- but we did pretty well.  They are very nice, and it was a lot of fun to talk to them.  It'll be nice to see them tomorrow.

Well, oyasumi.