In the Beginning...

Hi, all,

Went to the Setagawa Wards Office outside of Shibuya today to get my Foreign Resident Registration completed. All went well. They didn't throw me into jail at least. Then, after that, we had to apply for our National Health Insurance. I never thought that things would be so technical just to study abroad. Guess I was wrong.



I hope that I am not getting sick, but I feel something in the back of my throat. So, I loaded up on Vitamin C today and took some immmunity pills just a few minutes ago. Cross your fingers that it is not a sickness and simply jet-lag or something to that extent.

Everyone on the trip is really nice. BUT, I am so tired of traveling in a group. There are a lot of younger kids in the group who have never even traveled without family members. So being stuck with those who are "shadows" and typical tourists is getting old. But then again, I will never be able to escape looking like a tourist in Japan. I guess I just like to attract as little attention as possible. Keep quiet, head down, walk fast, walk with confidence (if at all possible in the train stations), etc. In short, I am anxious to start my daily routine of waking up, skyping, showering, reading, writing in my journal/book, walking to class by myself, sitting through class, taking lunch at the cafeteria and then snapping some cadids of the campus/students, and returning to the dorm to cook, do homework, skype, and center myself.

Here are some randoms that I snapped today. Hope you enjoy!