Update

Hey everyone - Sorry I haven't written anything in awhile. Things are fine. I was sick for another 3 days or so, and then I was busy with classes, and haven't been in a mood to sit here and type for an hour - I'm still not, really. But I figure I should write something.

The only exciting things that have happened would be visiting Nara with Yukina. We went to one garden that was free of charge for foreigners, and walked around it a bit, but mostly spent our time walking around the main attractions of Nara without going inside of any other museums or temples due to the fees (I don't think she wanted to pay, nor was she as interested as me in these things, so...) We got to see many deer, which were outnumbered by the tourists. Nara was packed.

It was really good just spending the day talking in mostly Japanese. Later I found out she wants to use more English though, which is fair, so I'm trying to use it a little more with her. It was a really good time.

Before the Nara trip, Gaidai had it's school festival, where all the clubs set up booths selling food for activity fees and whatnot, and tons of demonstrations and concerts are all over the place. It was incredible, seeing how ehtusiastic the Japanese students were, and how good they were at what they like to do - The karate club chopped up cinderblocks and iceblocks, the acapella group was great, the student run jazz and rock bands sounded professional, the food was good... You will never, ever, ever see such motivated, passionate, and dedicated people in America. I'm really embarrased to be an officer of the Japan Club at Gettysburg, since we don't do anything on this scale, nor do any of our members have much motivation to do anything, let alone clean up after themselves when we do have parties. Oh well.

But, honestly, nothing else has been going on. This week is another busy one, and I surmise all the following ones will be too. I don't know if I'll be traveling to anywhere in the near future, probably not so much anymore. I've hit most of the places to go in Kansai, and I don't want to spend the money to go further, nor face the homework and unfamiliar kanji on Japanese tests that would result in doing that.

But we'll see.