Hello 日本

Here in Japan, the students have started exams (I think they’re midterms, not really sure…). This means that me and Sehee get to sit in the exchange student room with Kawamoto-sensei all day! Well, until 11:40, anyway.
Today we watched Edward Scissorhands and then studied for maybe an hour and a half. Tomorrow we have to do a Japanese exam. Friday and Saturday are both movie only days.
After school, I met Amy at Izumigaoka Station and we took the train to Mozu station to check out the kofun (key-shaped burial mounds). Took us a while to find them, due to the fact that we got lost and couldn’t read the maps. Finally we found a map in English, and figured out that we were on the wrong side of the road. So we crossed the street and went to the really big kofun. Well, it was rather uneventful (aside from a random man giving us a paper on the kofun and random paper cranes….thanks?) since you couldn’t go in the kofun. But the trees were still super pretty. What the kofun are is a big key-shaped bunch of trees surrouned by a moat which has a rectangular border of trees which is surrounded by another moat. They’re quite spectacular when viewed from above, but otherwise uninteresting.
After the kofun, we decided to walk around the whole of Daisen Park. This too, was rather uneventful, but it was super nice weather today, so it was a nice walk. I am so tired now.
Tomorrow I am having baking day with Amy (and maybe Sehee) and nothing planned yet for Friday and Saturday, but on Sunday Amy and I are (secretly) checking out Americamura and Namba. Yay!

(Learn more about the kofun here, if you’re a history nerd )