Note to self: always bring an umbrella...Day 16

Day 16 - Friday, April 16


The cheese here is Magical!!!

I looked outside this morning and the weather was cloudy like the day before, so I assumed that it wouldn't rain like the day before. I was wrong. Oh so wrong. As I walked to my train station I felt a few drops land on my head, a drizzle. I'm from Hilo, I can handle a drizzle, I was good. I did my train riding business, and by the time I got out from underground it was raining. I'm from Hilo, I can handle rain, but what I can't handle is the miserable cold that accompanies rain in a not so tropic place.

Lab finished early and I hung out with some people in the hallway of our building trying to figure out what to do. It was raining and our options were limited. Our program director heard us talking and swooped in on our conversation and convinced us to go to this talk on robotics and anime put on by Tokyo University's CS department for our benefit. It was raining, he's our program director, we didn't have much of an option. The talk however, was kind of boring. The robotics part was cool, but the anime guy just talked about really technical layout and 3D rendering of anime. Not fun. Everyone was falling asleep except for this one boy in our program, Benz, who perked up for the talk and even asked the speaker if he could send in some ideas because he wanted to be an animator or involved in anime, to which the speaker chuckled nervously and said sure.

After the talk and a bus ride back to campus and a trek through the rain to our building everyone was pretty much done for. Soggy and wet we could have gone out, but most of us were pretty much going to throw in our wet towels. But Chelsea, convinced a group of us to go to a bakery instead of heading straight home. There we feasted on delectable baked goods. By this time I was going to miss dinner so the bread in my stomach was a smart move. I caught the train home and sure enough my host mother was in her room watching TV. Thankfully my host father had also come home late and we ate dinner together. Yay food!