Blogs from Shiga, Japan, Asia - page 5

Day two The single rooms in the Chinsun Hotel give you insufficient pace for cat swinging but as there seem to be remarkably few cats it does not present a problem. The bed is bigger than a single smaller that a double and comfortable warm and pretty much everything a bed should be. Certainly I slept well and I woke as usual ten minutes before the alarm, did the usuals and headed downstairs for the (included) breakfast. The menu included tinned fruit, yogurt, toast, bacon , steamed broccoli, soup, fish, hash browns, beef stew, chicken something, lettuce. shreddded cabbage, slices of lenmon and orange, french fries an little sausages with tea coffee or juice. All to be eaten with chop sticks! As it was early I took another walk aroun Ueno. Like all cities everywhere ... read more

So...things have been fairly busy this past week, and I'm sorry to those of you whom I've been neglecting. It's nothing personal, really! Classes began on Tuesday, and so far I am impressed. The instructors are great, and even though they don't speak any English whatsoever in the classroom, they do their best to make it easy for us foreigners. I'm in the same classroom with the same 10 students every day, from 9-2, with an hour break in-between for lunch. Right now we're still going over material that I've already learned, but it's good to have a review, and we're moving along very quickly. By next week I predict that I will be doing some heavy duty studying. The big news is that today I leave the JCMU residence building to live with my host ... read more