Yeah, I know I was a little skimpy on the details earlier, but you can just go read Conny's new one to get the idea. We have been together since we met up at the Mizuno's house. New Topic.

Weirdest thing about Japan: Commercials. Insanely weird. Can't figure out what they are selling or they have too intimate a relationship with what they are selling.

Worst thing about Japan: When I'm asked a difficult question and I pause to think about it and the person thinks I didn't understand the question. I don't know what I'm doing after SUA. I need to think a little about why I chose SUA. I need some time!!

Most annoying that I'll have to live with: All the buttons on the internet are in Japanese and I keep canceling things because I can't read what it said.

Greatest enigma of Japan: Both mornings I have woken up before 7:00 am after having gone to bed around midnight. This is not normal for me. By my bodies choice, I am getting less than 7 hours of sleep.

Biggest spoiling in Japan: Hot meals 3 times a day. Yummy. Breakfast was eggs, toast, warm salad thing, ham, juice, and two kinds of tea (I guess I accidentally asked for it). Lunch was this yummy seafood thing over noodles. Dinner was lots of stuff: toast, french fries, breaded pork, fish/some sort of vegetable salad, rice ball, corn, juice and tea as I can remember.

Done with that I guess. Today we are trying out the subway system. Too bad we picked something on the other side of Tokyo to do it. Conny thought we were on the other side of the map when she decided she wanted to go there. That's okay though, we've got to figure it out some day. So we're going to Ryogaku I think, and to the Edo Museum. Our first big touristy spot. Should be fun once we get there.

The schdule has been being quickly filled up by SGI meetings. Doesn't bother me. One is a welcome party that will consist of mainly tempura and udon I think. Yesterday we went walking with Okaasan (Mrs. Mizuno) and in the process visited abot 4 SGI houses. We didn't really need to have introduced prepared because Okaasan did them for us. She's amazed and tells everyone that we know gongyo really well even though both of us messed up really badly because it was too slow. I can't figure out if Japanese people have a hard time learning it or if they don't expect people ouside Japan to be able to do it.

One thing about that walk is that Okaasan doesn't speak English, so they was a lot more Japanese than normal. Otousan (Mr. Mizuno) speaks almost exclusively English to us. I think he likes to practice his English. It's okay I guess, but he doesn't understand everything, I think it would be easier on some occasions for us to speak Japanese.

As you can see, I'm not all that big on detail by detail stuff, but I'll try to get better.