So the dorm is a pretty cool. There are seven of us who live here, Charissa, Katherine, Thuc, Tiana, Carrie, Becca and I. We have gotten to spend a lot of time together because it is convenient and easy to travel since we are all based out of the same place. The dorm is located near the Ayase station (our local station is called Horikiri Shobuen, but it is not very big) and we are really kind of in the middle of nowhere. We are still in an urban setting (Tokyo's urban landscape seems to spread to endless places), but we are in a smaller, more quiet neighborhood. The dorm is all girls and there are mostly students and young professionals. It's entirely different from living and sharing a hall with boys (and I have to
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