After 3 days, I feel like I have been here in Osaka for weeks. I am still really enjoying myself, and there has been a fairly steady stream of activity over the past couple of days. Yesterday and today I spent a lot of time taking care of administrative kinds of matters, and today on top of that I also had my language placement test! I think everything has been moving along smoothly, and I really like the people I've met here.
I have signed up for classes now. Since classes in too high of demand are decided by lottery, I won't find out my finalized schedule until Friday. I am definitely taking spoken Japanese, as well as Japanese reading/writing, since they are available for everyone, and I will find out my level based on the results of the placement test on Friday as well. Besides that, I am hoping to take Japanese ceramics, art in the Kansai area (field trips!), and a class about the intersection of the real and imaginary in modern Japanese fiction. It will be good to take a literature class again for the first time since high school so that I can get credit for reading fun books! I've already read one of the books on the list, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and it was really interesting. I hope it works out.
Tomorrow will continue with the orientation schedule, and I will find out the details on my host family on Thursday. I am looking forward to moving to a more permanent residence and having classes start so I can get into a regular routine. In the meantime, I am trying to keep my things together so that I will be ready to leave quickly, but it's hard to live out of a suitcase for a week without spreading out at least a little. I suppose it is all part of adjusting.
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