the in hopefully immortal words of the other exchage student, Chris...

..."after a knowledge of Japanese, a cellphone is the most useful thing you can have"
you something like that. but is it ever true. today i went to school, forgot that we had exams today, and was thus very surprised when I got there. the only one i had today was physics, and the japanese was too difficult. i can do that kind of physics, but i didnt really know what it was asking, so that kinda but a wrench in my plans. since there were only 2 exams today (im not taking the other class, ancient japanese) we were done at 10:30. what was i supposed to do? well, i hung out with some friends some my class whose gender you can probably guess. one of them was the one I usually walk with, and the easily one of the friendliest people I have met since I got here. we went again to Ikebukuro, and they we had lunch, and then went to sunshine city. the emphasis here is on city, becasue it is all underground or in a very large building. we went into some weird amusement park type place where we went to a haunted house, did purikura, and then went to gyoza town. after that we went to ice cream town, which is all inside sunshine city. that place is nuts. after that, we left, and then went to karaoke. that was terrifying, yet strangely fun. i need to learn to sing, but not really, becasue none of them can sing either. it was priceless hearing this girl sign " er, is for the way you rook, at me..." oh man, that was fun. one the way back to the station and waiting for their train (different directions, but i am a gentleman like that), one of them made fun of the other one and is trying to hook the two of us. considering that I walk with her to the station fairly often and think that she is gorgeous, im not really complaining.

peter