Since Austin's been busy with his JSPS orientation, I'm serving as his blog proxy for now. He made it to Narita late on Tuesday night Japan time (delays in Atlanta) and the next day went with about 100 other students from the US, the UK, France, Germany, and Canada to an orientation in the Haneda region (about an hour from Tokyo via bus). He said the weather's been nice and he had a nice view of Mt. Fuji (and I'm jealous because it was cloudy when I was there next year and I didn't get to see it!). He's enjoyed the Japanese classes so far and I think he wants to keep up practice and learning the language after orientation as well.
I know this weekend he's doing the home stay but beyond that I'm not really sure what he's been up to. I got a weird email with the subject line "Went to beach, gonna do a load of laundry." When I asked what that meant (mostly because I didn't know how he'd have time to hang out at the beach during the orientation) he said "The ocean, no beach just some rocks with local fisherman." So I really don't know what shenanigans he's been up to now...
He'll be at the orientation until Tuesday and then will go to his host institution to start working in his lab. I'll try to bug him for an update when he gets to RIKEN!
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