A new term has started, and I want to do well. Pictures are funny, I feel my face looks so different on camera compared to RL, or even compared to how my face used to look in pictures just a few years ago.

The (not so) long walk to school.

I always take a back street through a little park on my way to classes so I can look at the flowers and not be run over by the cars.

I always wonder why not more people get electrocuted by all the wires hanging everywhere.

I stopped by a parking lot before school to look at the pigeons.

And then there was school. Today it was three hours of reading, and one hour of listening. Apparently I have started intermediate Japanese now, and how that happened I have no idea, because there is absolutely nothing about my Japanese which can describe it as intermediate.

The view of Shinjuku from the school’s balcony.

And then I walked home again… and now I should probably start reading through the material for tomorrow.