This was the first day we've had in Kanazawa with no real commitments, so it was nice to just do whatever we want. I woke up a little later and went to the TonTon Ramen place with people again for lunch. Then I just worked on studying a lot of Japanese words for shapes and figures for Japanese for Science and Technology class.

In the morning KIT's anthem woke us up, and first thing after brushing our teeth we went outside for a flag raising and some morning exercises/stretches acompanied by radio music. Then we had breakfast. They served toast, fruit salad, hard boiled eggs, corn chowder, and tea, and it was all really good. Then we boarded the busses to see some other places.

This weekend the KIT staff planned a field trip for us to their Anamizu Bay Seminar House. It was an overnight stay, but there were a lot of stops along the way. Our first stop was at a Japanese mechanics or robot museum. A nice tour guide gave us a demonstration of a few interesting old robots. Both were made hundreds of years ago. The first was a robot that served tea:

Today we had a test, and I guess we're going to have one every Friday. Then after lunch we had more Japanese for Science and Technology, and we learned a bunch of vocabulary for shapes and geometry, and then made some origami by following some instructions in Japanese. Later we came back to meet some Japanese students and play a name game and something similar to musical chairs.

Today we had class Japanese language class as usual, and then we had culture class, and we learned a lot about the different periods in Japanese history. After our usual classes we had the first meeting with our group for our project for Japanese for Science and Technology class. Our project is to build a Rube Goldberg machine. There are six of us per group, and each pair needs to create three different parts of the machine.

Our first Japanese language classes were today, starting with the core language class. It was mostly review and it was a little easy really, just reviewing positional words, introducing yourself and asking questions, and adjective tenses. We're making little posters to introduce ourselves to hang in the Logos lab where the KIT students who want to learn English go.