In the afternoon today I went out to the National Youth Center (NYC!!!) near Yoyogi Park to participate in an English discussion with the Japan-side delegation for the 61st Japan-America Student Conference. I signed up on a whim and was feeling kind of reluctant about it, but I'm really glad I went. I got to talk to a lot of Japanese students about pretty substantial topics, and I met a few more...

Looking at the program and course information books that I got today at the placement test, I'm realizing that I will be in class a lot more than I expected. I don't know what the minimum is, but even just the core Japanese language class meets every other day. I will probably take a focus class on conversation or something, maybe a law or politics class, and if I can, an IR class of some sort. ...