Aah, I bought a folding bike. I got it online and it was really reasonable. One of my students was sweet enough to help me. We got it on amazon for the low low. Japan is a cash society, they use cards but most people use cash. Because of this, you can buy things off Amazon with cash. You order whatever, and take your printed reciept to the convenient store to pay for it. Sugoi ne?! There is some strange new bike science that I'm not aware of that comes with this territory. First of all, all the instructions are in Japanese. Secondly, the pictures are tiny and nondescript. For those reasons, I have had this bike for almost a week and it has no handlebars and one pedal lol. It's really disappointing because I wanted to bring it to Suwa but it will be fine. I am carrying the directions around in my purse just in case someone can help me translate. I'll get it right next week.
In the past couple weeks I have been looking for classes in Japanese that suit my schedule. I found a self study course that might be poppin', so I'm very excited about that. I keep saying how difficult Japanese is, but learning the language becomes more necessary everyday. I used this week to memorize hiragana and katakana but kanji is another story. My coworker gave me a kanji book that has been really helpful. So one step at a time. I'm looking forward to being able to have reciprocal conversations, not Japanese-English conversations :) I can't leave Japan until I can speak and understand Japanese so I need to put in some serious work.
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