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Looking at this, it doesn’t seem like I’m very busy. But somehow it’s just enough that I can’t really do anything on school days, except maybe Monday afternoons. Oh, and Thursday mornings for cleaning my room XD At least I don’t have any 9am classes :D

On the program for the Opening Ceremony was a list of the countries from which the international students had come. It was my final proof that I’m all alone here…

In front of the Neyagawa Police Station is this chart showing the traffic accidents for the day before. It lists the number of incidents, the number of deaths, and the number of injuries. It doesn’t seem that rare for someone to be killed on the road here. I can kind of see why, with the way that people drive their cars and bikes.

And one final figure: this time in 2 months, I’ll be on a plane home! (does anyone know where I can get a prettier countdown? this one is kind of hideous)

Since I’ve obviously fallen behind terribly, here are a few photos from the last month or so :) I’ll even try to use my words a little bit this time, since the photos are fairly disjointed and a bit of explanation is required.

On September 27th I went to Fushimi Inari shrine on a field-trip with my religion class. This shrine is on a mountain – okay, maybe a hill – and actually rather than one big shrine there are various small shrines and things all over the mountain.

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One of my missions while I’m here is to try every flavour of Fanta that I find. There was one that I had last month that was Italian Peach flavour, and it looked like it was part of a series of world flavours. So the new flavour in the series has come out, and guess where it’s from?

I had to google to find out what “cassis” is, and apparently it’s blackcurrant. I don’t think it’s a particularly NZ flavour, but whatever. It tastes okay, and the bottle’s super-cute :)

Here’s the guided tour of my homestay house :)

Okay, I’ll start from the start. Here’s the front gate:

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Better late than never, right? A few photos from my trip to Tokyo during Silver Week.
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