Feeling sick :(

Oh well, now yet another week is about to end. Time is passing really quickly here, even though every day seems really long (makes no sense, but still). School is shaping up fairly well and I'm even managing in my Kanji class (believe it or not) my teacher is letting me stay in my current level with the promise of me working extra hard since I started on a level far behind the other students. However, right now I feel that I'm basically on the same level, so I should be okay with a little bit of motivation.

Feeling like crap right now, and this cold that pretty much everyone has been walking around with finally hit me. Trying to rest a lot but can't really sleep. Oh well, not much of interest to say here, except that I hope I'll get better.

I was/am intending to head to a field-trip tomorrow (Saturday) but in my current condition I'm not sure if I should be going or not. It's a really interesting trip and I'd love to go... but we'll have to see. Maybe what I should really do is just rest, but that's no fun at all.

Went to Osaka last week and went to the shopping districts there. Woooaaah they are huge, and omg do they have a lot of stores. It was a lot of fun just walking there. We forgot to take enough pictures, but before you entered the huge stream of people, it looked like it would be impossible to move through the enormous crowds. Well, definitely had a lot of fun and we found everything you could possibly imagine. Definitely a great day and I have to return there sometime soon. When I get better I should definitely head to Kyoto as well to go shopping there :D.

Been looking more into the Kendo club and I'm totally loving it. I've ordered my training wear and bamboo-sword and all that good stuff and it should arrive next Wednesday. It's a little bit expensive, but I guess that's only to be expected under the circumstances. He is, after all, letting me train for free so I'm not complaining :).

I am really starting to feel settled in here and I don't feel like a stranger everywhere I go all the time. I've found a few places that I can go to and relax and I've also made good friends and I feel relatively settled in. Although it's fun to come to a new place, it's really nice when you can feel that you are starting to make sense of the place as well, in order to get a stable ground to stand on.

Well, morever, meeting my speaking-partner today again with some friends. She's a really sweet girl but very shy. We managed through one lunch already by talking about random stuff and today we'll be there with a few friends so it should be a bit more comfortable and language barriers should be okay. If nothing else, it's a great way of practicing my Japanese.