Long weekend...

Today is going by soooooo slowly. The people who showed me around last night have gone out of town, so now I'm on my own again. At least I have the Internet to keep me company.

I spent most of today just unpacking. Thank God for Skype--I finally got to have a decent conversation with Adam and my family. My brother and sister put Scruffy on the webcam and it really broke my heart. He looked so cute, and I really wish I could just pick him and give him a big hug.

In the late afternoon I decided to explore the town a little bit. Shibukawa is cute, but pretty dead. I've put up some more pictures on my Yahoo Photos link. I stopped by the grocery store and didn't recognize most of the produce. And the biggest disappointment: they didn't have breakfast cereal :( Oh yeah, and their milk is no less than 3.6%.

On the way home, some old man started talking to me. There's one phrase I really have to learn ASAP: "I'm not Japanese." I just told him in English and walked away. He looked at me, laughed, and scratched his head...