I have visited friends, started enrolling in class, walked around a lot, caught a cold. I went to North Carolina to visit family and meet my brother's new wife's family. Today I start work. I called a cell phone shop in Mitsuwa, the Japanese market outside of Chicago, and they said they can sell me a phone that has Japanese text ability. If it's not too expensive I want that, so I can tell my girlfriend, 愛してるよ。
Japan's sunrise seems much earlier. It used to wake me up at 5:00 every morning, until I started wearing a mask. Here in Chicago, it's 6:30 and the sun is coming up now. I woke up at 6:00 and it was still dark, it felt like 4:00 am.
I still spend a lot of time studying and reading Japanese, but haven't spoken much at all. I have to fix that soon.