OF NOTE

1) My host mommy is buying me an el-cheapo two week pass to that awesome gym. That means I get about six chances to go to this "spa fitness center" place, instead of the grungy, awful, uninspiring Waseda gym. SCORE!

2) The day I went to Hama-Rikyu Koen to see the Lion Dance and Hawk demonstrations, my English client who works there was robbed blind while he and his wife were out to dinner. The thieves took everything of value including the safe with much of his savings and the deed to his house. Yet my family, who lives in Shinjuku, still left the door intentionally unlocked when we all went out the other day.

3) I hate motorcyclists. But only the ones with intentionally loud bikes. They can die, the rest can live... if they give me a ride (and promise to keep their bikes tuned up so they don't sound like the ones outside my window).