- First weekend and first trip. We went to Miyajima and swam in the sea (probably the third time in my life). It was awesome and the weather was perfect.

- On Monday we went to the university by ourselves without our Japanese buddies for the first time. It was just me and three other students. Two of them, Germans, don´t speak much Japanese yet and the staff in the international center are really nice but barely speak any English. And so it happened I was translating for them. What a proud and surreal moment.
- We managed to hand in the first draft of our intended schedules and by Friday we´ll know if we actually can take these classes. School starts Thursday.
- I signed up for one class that a friend recommended to me. It was not on the list of classes for the law faculty (to which I belong here, for some unknown reason) and so it created so much confusion I can´t believe the teacher who was checking my schedule remained insanely polite. Also, it looks like I really can take this class about international relations which is really great.
- If someone signs up for my class I will be teaching Czech at the university (!!!!). I am so excited for this.
- Very happy that we managed to hand in our schedules, we went to the bus stop to take the bus back to our dorms only to find out that the first bus in that direction does not come until an hour later. Not before I was made to ask about four different bus drivers if their bus is going to our station though. Since I was the one "speaking" Japanese. What a ridiculous situation.
- It turned out alright though, as I forgot to ask about the after-school clubs and the others were interested in that too. And so we took the walk of shame and humbly walked back to the international center. I gave up trying to explain why we just randomly disappeared for half an hour and then turned up again and just started asking about the clubs. And so Awa is joining the swimming team, the German guys the basketball team and it looks I will try doing karate again.
- No one really knew about the after-school clubs before I went to ask about them at the school and now I am responsible for all of the international students joining. :D
- Back in the dorms kitchen, I became friends with the two Taiwanese students that arrived at the airport with me last week. I was a little scared of them after the awkward hour-long silence but it turns out they are both really sweet. And as they don´t speak English, we spoke in Japanese the whole evening. And now we might be joining a sightseeing club together that meets once a week and plans a trip somewhere in Japan once a month.
- This Japanese thing is slowly getting easier.

- This afternoon we went to an all girls´ joint middle and high school. They prepared a traditional tea ceremony for us. We had to enter the room through a small window so that a katana wouldn´t fit inside. Can you imagine 20 international students trying standing in line trying to get through a tiny window and several Japanese teachers and students instructing everyone... After the tea ceremony, they divided us into groups of four and sent us into different classes to talk with the students about our countries and cultures. The students were SO nice and SO cute. Our class made hundreds of little heart-shaped origami for us. They asked us enthusiastically about everything and then we played a game including chairs and random questions, it was so much fun and such a unique experience.

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