Aichi Gakuin

I went to take a sneak peek at my exchange university yesterday, and it is huge!! It took about an hour to get there - a bike ride to the train station, then a short train ride, then the subway, then a bus to the university. It's going to be pretty rough on the trains if I have early classes... not looking forward to rush hour!

The uni has pretty much everything ... it's own convenience store and McDonalds?! Swimming pool, gym (yay, so at least I can work off the kilos from eating so much!!) tennis courts, libraries, athletics track, soccer/rugby/baseball field, and a zen prayer room to top it off, just to name a few. I will get a full campus tour during my orientation, so hopefully I won't get too lost trying to find all the places once I start studying.

Otherwise I've just been relaxing, doing a bit of shopping here and there at nearby stores and spending time with my family here, whom I haven't seen in 3 years. It's been good just to catch up. My parents will be coming in a few days, so the travelling will start a bit after that!

(Photos: clockwise from left - walking from the bus stop at Aichi Gakuin; Garden outside the meditation room; my little cousin and me standing next to the meditation room; and outside some building at the university)