chii and i eating a mid-lunch snack at laqua, where I used to hang out at before judo practice at the kodokan.

Today was really interesting. Not only did I get to visit Sophia University, but I survived the scorchingly hot and HUMID weather. You could break a sweat just standing, it was so nasty. On the way home the trains were packed full and that was an even more thrilling experience, yuck. Anyway, Jochi (The Japanese name for Sophia) was pretty cool. I met with Chii and one other JASCer and we had lunch in one of the Jochi cafeterias, apparently the ‘nice one’. They had both Western and Japanese style menus. The Western one consisted of spaghetti and some sketchy looking faux hot dogs, so needless to say we all got Japanese food. After eating we walked around the campus a bit. The place where most of the exchange students take their classes in is towards the back of the campus in one of the older buildings. We peeked in on a Japanese class and everyone was attentively watching some Japanese drama. Best kind of studying ever ;) We also visited the school store and I was really tempted to buy some of the school apparel, but my bags were already full when I got here. I’ll be back soon anyway. Chii told me all of the exchange students have the Sophia hoody. I talked to her a lot about what kind of students come abroad to Jochi. She said a lot of them are ‘otaku-poi’, anime fanatics, and that she sees a lot of them walking around school with little stuffed characters on their shoulders… Also, it seems a majority of students who come don’t really speak the language and/or make little effort to mingle into the Japanese student body and spend a lot of their time in ryugakusei cliques. Coodies~. Tokyo is one of the only places that you could really get around in without knowing any Japanese, it’s kind of unfortunate. But anyway, I shouldn’t generalize too much about the kind of people who go abroad. Besides, there are also really awesome people too (^o^)v. Ahem.

Happy Fourth~

Toodles 'till next time! <3