That Buzzing Sound

Salutations, my westward friends (though honestly, east works too).

Found a new way to school today. It skips a great deal of the usual pants-soiling terror I've come so accustomed to. There is however, a rather cruelly steep hill, but I'm not complaining. Anything is better than being a foots length from being decimated by traffic... angry, angry, traffic.

(shudder)

Things have been going pretty well here, if I can get away with saying that. School is a monster, but I'm managing. I don't see my friends too often, but I do my best to hang out with them when I have the chance. I went with a couple to Osaka a few days ago, and we bought some passes that would let us hit up a whole bunch of museums.

One of the first ones we visited was pretty much the Japanese equivalent of Co-Sci. There were kids darting around and playing on everything, doing all the little experiment stations. One in particular I found groovy was levitation. There was a little model of the earth held suspended in mid-air by three different magnets. It was really neat.

Later, we'd go to a (crappy) art gallery, miss a dinosaur show by minutes and then go to Floating Garden. If you are silly, and read the title of this place, you may be inclined to believe that the floating garden includes foliage of some shape or variety. Not true. The floating garden is... well... I'll show you the postcards latter. The easy explanation is that I was on a rooftop 40 some stories up looking out over Osaka City at night, and it was magical.

It was a fun day.

Anyway, on a more life focused thing, I'm realizing a lot of the things that I'm going to miss here. The food, the scenery, the mountains, new friends from far away places... there a plenty of things that I'm going to miss dearly. I am, however, ready to just be able to talk to and see people again. While I'd never want to do the dorms here, living with a homestay comes at the disadvantage of being far away from everyone all the time.

... sigh...

Going out for sushi tonight with friends. If anyone would like to send me a message or something, I'd totally dig it. Also, for those with gmail accounts, I'm online at 8 am to 9 here nearly every day. If you do the math, that means that I can chatted with from 6 to 7 o'clock in America time. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I'm online until about 8 pm Western time.

I imagine (and hope) I'll talk to some of you later.
Take it easy everyone, much love.
~ Cheers