Autumn

It's already dark by 4:30 here. They (Japan) had daylight savings, but not anymore. They love their seasons here, and they have all four. They send letters during the middle of summer, and the middle of winter, and formal thank you letters start with a phrase that has to do with the season: "The hot weather continues," "the maple leaves are staring to turn red," "the cold weather continues," "the cherry blossoms are so beautiful these days."

I moved into my new dorm a few weeks ago. It's so much better than the other dorm. It's closer to school (so close that I can go home during my one hour lunch break, eat and take a nap), laundry is free, I don't have as much space as the other dorm, so I don't make as big of a mess, and my roommate and I get along really well. She told me about a mozilla extension "Rikaichan" where you put the cursor up to a word (in Japanese) and the meaning just pops up!

My grandfather broke his ankle a couple of weeks ago. He's much better now, he'll proabably start walking this weekend.

The Japanese Proficiency Test is in less than a month! We took a practice exam last week, and I passed, but I did terribly on the reading comprehension and grammar.

I'm starting a job this Saturday at a beer cafe. This place serves 160 different kinds of beers, mostly from Belgium. I'm depending on them to tell me absolutely everything I have to do in extreme detail, otherwise I'd be very nervous.

I went to Nikko last weekend. The hot springs was sooo nice.