first real day in kobe!

hey lovely roomies,

here's a rundown of some interesting stuff that's happened today:

(1) I've signed up for a Scrabble tournament on June 22 in Kobe! =) It's an "International" language tourney, which means I get to play in English, woohoo. *is very excited, even though will probably lose miserably*

(2) I've also gotten a gym membership at the local YMCA (dun dun dun... this is for you, Jaxie =P). Something tells me this may be a mistake, but this is what happens when I end up hanging out all the time with an athlete, who's already planned to run every morning and goes to the gym for like an hour and a half every night. I admire his stamina, really o.O

(3) my japanese cell phone managed to mysteriously die on me over the course of one weekend. mrp.

(4) my lab consists of two frenchmen, a russian, a swede (whom I'm working with)... and four japanese researchers. the swede incidentally has lived in hong kong for a while, and speaks better cantonese than I do.

in short, I am living la vida amazinga. keep me posted on how things are going!