Today in class, we had a guest speaker, Nik Nedig, who was a participant in this study abroad program just last two years ago I believe. Since then, he completed his masters degree and found a job with Goldman Sachs Japan Holdings. He was a programming major, and he works on the companies infrastructure for managing transactions and such. Living in Tokyo, he has a pretty small apartment, probably a lot smaller than our rooms here at Nishikawa Heights, and it's decently expensive. In the realm of NYC prices for housing probably.

Things are winding down now here at KIT, only one week left to go. Because of that, we're starting to be thinking more about our travel plans after the program. A few of us are going to a music festival called Nano-Mugen. It's a two day music festival featuring Japanese and English bands in Yokohama, near Tokyo, that I believe the band Asian Kung-Fu Generation started. That band is basically the only Japanese music I know, and I only know it because Xander showed it to me before we left for Japan.

Today we didn't have a ton of class, we only had a final for our Japanese for Science and Technology class that lasted about an hour, and then we just hung out until the second class started, which was our project class. I mostly just caught up on things I wanted to do. For example, I have a notebook that I've been carrying with me almost the whole time I've been here that I just write down words I hear in so I can remember them. I'm in the middle of typing it up on the computer and checking with a dictionary, but there's a ton of words.