Greetings from the Land of Excuse Me While I Dump Ice on My Head, where it is currently Literally Thousands of People Were Hospitalized Because of Heat Stroke This Week degrees.
Not much to report again. (Sorry, I live a boring life.) We had our midterm this Friday, so I spent most of the week either in class or studying. Friday we had our first field trip in Yokohama; we were given our pick of courses (each course going to a different set of places). The course I picked went to the Yokohama Shipping Museum, which was actually more interesting than it sounds. Afterwards I hung out with some of the other students, and we went over to the customs building at Oosanbashi, which is also more exciting than it sounds. It's basically a giant wooden building that you can walk on the roof of. Obligatory picture. We wound up grabbing dinner together afterwards.
Today I spent...basically the entire day in the National Diet Library, because the NDL is the best. Got some stuff copied (although, geez, their copies are expensive--about $0.25 a page), found an article that seems like it'll be really helpful in a technical school manual (I don't even know), and wound up running into another student from the program, who was visiting the library with his wife. Anyway, it was a productive day overall, although I now have abrasions on both my arms. I was taking out huge stacks of books at once, which was good for my productivity ('cause I could flip through six books in 30 minutes and figure out which ones were actually relevant without having to do the whole "flip through a book and then wait for 30 minutes for them to bring me another book" thing), but not so great for my arms, especially since a lot of books I was looking through were HUGE. There was a point at which I was carrying around six encyclopedia volumes plus my electronic dictionary plus my notebook plus two other normal-sized books. At least I didn't have to borrow a cart from the library, like that one guy who was hauling around what looked like 20 encyclopedia volumes on architecture.
Also, I discovered that the NDL has more reference works on "food culture" than it does on Shinto. Yeah.
Also, this is totally unrelated, but on the train today I saw an ad for this TV show, which is apparently about a single mom housewife who fights bullies FOR GREAT JUSTICE. I really hope she fights them with a vacuum. Really.
Anyway, we have a three-day weekend this weekend, so I might be going to the beach with classmates on Monday. Otherwise, not a whole lot of plans, other than maybe catching up on sleep, if I can stop from waking up at 6 a.m. because of the heat.
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