"I'm studying Japanese." To anyone who is reading this, I must apologize for the mundane entries as of late. Fortunately, some fairly interesting events are approaching. Sometime this week -- whether tomorrow, Thursday, or Friday I cannot recall -- about 10,000 Japanese students will be returning from their summer vacation. Additionally, next Friday I shall travel to Tokyo. I've been so tired lately. Yesterday, I had no meat during the entire day. For dinner, my host family cooked chaahan, because I said that I liked it. Chaahan is fried rice; it's actually from China, apparently. Inexplicably, Japanese people eat gohan (white/steamed rice) with chopsticks, but chaahan with a spoon. I asked for chopsticks, because eating rice with a spoon, for me, psychologically, is difficult. Every day, I ride at least 4 trains: two coming to school,
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