Typhoon!

The last couple days have been pretty quiet.  Monday came with a prediction of thunderstorms, so I didn't end up going to Gion (decided to save it for weather I actually wanted to walk around in).  I did homework and hung out instead. 

Then, today (Wednesday), a typhoon rolls through.  This means classes were canceled on grounds of high winds, heavy rain, and just general not-safe-for-long-commutes-ness.  It wasn't actually that bad in my area, though.  I mean, yeah, it poured, and we did have gusting winds...but most of the day you could've gone out with a sturdy umbrella and a raincoat and been fine.  I suspect part of the cancellation was fear that it would get a lot worse in the afternoon (that was the prediction, and the wind gusts did become more frequent in that time), and that it would keep people from getting home again.  The sad thing is, since it was deemed too dangerous to go out to school, most of us figured it would be too dangerous to go do other things too.  So today has been pretty quiet, yet again. 

Anyways, this makes this week pretty low-key overall.  Monday was a holiday (成人の日, which the internet rather awkwardly translates as "Respect for the Aged Day"), and Wednesday is Typhoon Day, and Friday will be another holiday (秋分の日, the autumnal equinox), so classes really only happened yesterday and tomorrow. 

Speaking of classes, though, we're finally sorted into our actual classes for the semester.  I'm in Ohno-sensei's class, and I think it's going to be good for me.  Her description yesterday involved a lot of newspaper article reading, literature reading, speaking refinement, writing refinement, and lots of kanji.  Basically the things I need to work on (reading -> kanji, speaking/writing -> being polite and more formal, kanji -> kanji).  So hopefully I will learn lots of things from class. 

With the weather being the way it's been, I'm afraid I don't have much of interest to report.  But it's supposed to be sunny again from tomorrow on!  So we can go have fun again.  So many places to explore...