Photograph by Peter Zeglis, Tokyo.
The flags you see in the above picture represent the 39 countries students are from this semester at Kansai Gaidai. Of the 423 international students, 247 are from America. Other countries with large contingencies: the UK, Sweden, France, Norway, Canada, and Australia. The tough thing about being an international student at Kansai Gaidai is that all the classes are taught in English, which means students from places like Germany have to be studying English and Japanese simultaneously.
My friend William from Alabama, left, and my friend Clement from New Zealand, right.
The reception was filled with all kinds of delicious food. It ranged from traditional Japanese sushi and sashimi to more western foods like ice cream.
But what stole the show was this chocolate excreting fountain of deliciosity, placed right in the center of everything. It was tempting to try out chocolate-covered sushi, but I stuck to the standard bananas, pineapples, and marshmallows.
This is the room I’m staying in this week before I move in with my host family. Japanese dorm rooms are not like American ones. You can tell right off the bat that the Japanese expect you to be extremely efficient with your space management.
Every night you have to unroll your bed to sleep on it. This is the best way to go around things, if we just left our beds out on the floor each day, there would be barely any room to walk.
It’s also extremely clean in the dorm room. We have to take our shoes off the moment we enter the building, so dirt never even makes it up to the 2nd and 3rd floors (I’m on the 3rd).
This is the view from outside our window. The windows don’t open very wide at all, so there isn’t much to look at.
Two days ago it went from completely sunny to instant downpour in a matter of minutes.
It cleared up about an hour later, and has been (way too) hot and sunny since.
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From a behind-the-scenes photography set at Rolling Stone. This photo by James Minchin III. (thx, Greg)
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And here’s the proper way to hold a videocamera.
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And here’s the proper way to hold a videocamera.
(Photo of Tana the hippopotamus mugging for a cameraman at the Opel Zoo near Frankfurt, Germany on her 50th birthday by Frank Rumpenhorst [best last name ever or best last name ever?] / AFP-Gety via the San Francisco Chronicle)