October 12 , 2006 - page 2



Then caught a lot of strange looks when he ripped off his shirt in the cafeteria (a perfectly understandable reaction to the almost unbearable combination of muggy weather and no air conditioning), and after several valiant struggles between Whitney’s skirts and the bike chains, she’s finally decided that

pants are the way to go. It took us a week just to figure out how to order food in the cafeteria… up until Tuesday we only
ate udon or whatever rice dish was on display, because that’s what a friend ordered for us on the first day. The discovery of the menu was quite exciting, albeit a little anticlimactic since it’s a huge poster plastered prominently across a wall.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how welcoming the Japanese students have been. Just sitting around outside we