Day 20

Back to classes, back to the regular routine.  At least, that was the plan, but my body was beginning to reel from the trip.  My legs hurt like no other, and it's great that I have a bike, so at least some of the pain is avoided.  Before that, there's the problem with waking up at 7:30 or 8:30.  One affords you with time to take a shower and make lunch; the other affords you more sleep.  Which is more important?

That's not to say that I was fully rested when I arrived at school, nor did I run the chance of falling asleep.  Classes aren't boring at all, rather drag on for what feels like far too long, or at least too long for my liking.  3 hours would probably be enough, but then that would leave far too much time in the middle of the day for slacking off and just walking around.  There's nothing wrong with that, but you still need to get something done.

Lunch consisted of yet another bento from Kitsutsuki, which was tasty as ever, and required eating a fried egg with chopsticks.  No easy feat, but not too much of a challenge either, given that you have some level of manual dexterity.  Following that, in class we learned that on Wednesday, we'd be given the second level of the textbook, Minna no Nihongo II (or, Everybody's Japanese II).  I can only hope that it doesn't move at a faster pace, because then I just may have to spend the rest of my time studying and not getting around that much.

The afternoon was filled with anger at facebook for its picture uploading application and all of its unexpected errors.  Really, how many errors are expected?  And should it really take eight times to upload an album?  I think not.  Getting this done really cut a lot of my time out, as did writing those previous blog posts, but when I am back up to speed, I should be able to get out more and get the recommended length of sleep.  Good luck with that, me.

There will be no pictures this week, because I can't find anything interesting.  You'll just have to amuse yourself with the 400+ photos I took while in Tokyo.  Enjoy yourselves, and keep on reading!