The only defense that I really have for not having written anything in the past two weeks is that this past week happened to be when almost all of my midterms exams fell (most people have them spread out over a couple weeks), so I've been suddenly busy with school work/studying. In the past week I've had 2 tests, 2 papers, 1 presentation and 4 quizzes. Surprisingly though, this stress level was still low compared to the academic rigor at K, but nonetheless I had a lot of preparation to do.
Outside of that however, it's been a fairly regular two weeks. The most interesting occurrence happened last Sunday. Jeric (a good friend and the only other K College student here) managed to acquire two ticket to a symphony concert in Tama-Center, so we hopped on the train and off we went. Upon arriving, I found out that Tama-Center is apparently the homeland of Hello Kitty, and it looked the part. It was almost like being in an amusement park: the buildings were all conspicuously picturesque, decorations and lights abounded, and cute Hello Kitty signs were strategically places throughout the pedestrian streets to point you in the direction of all buildings-of-note in the area. After a bit of exploration, we discovered an actual amusement park, various performance spaces, and an enormous and gorgeous park that was tucked a small stroll off the main area (pictures shown below).
Oh, and we did eventually go see the symphony play. The repertoire was all over the place: Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, but it was pretty good. Also, it was the first time Jeric had ever been to a symphonic concert, so he enjoyed at least getting the experience, and we both agreed the Tchaikovsky was cool.
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| One of the streets |
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| The Amusement Park: Saurio Puroland |
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| One little section of the enormous and beautiful park |
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