Sorry it's been awhile since last post.

So I bet you are all wondering what happened to me (if anybody is still reading this thing that is ;) So there are several troubling legal red tape issues you have to take care of as a foreigner living in Japan under a visa. However I'm finally through all the red tape nastiness so I'm feeling pretty good about all that. School has started so I'm kinda on a set schedule now getting up for classes early every morning. My classes have not been very interesting so far but as it's only the 2nd day of the 2nd week I hope they pick up some more and start getting harder. Tokyo is treating me pretty good I've been sampling many different restaurants and checking out the night life a bit on weekends. Karaoke in Japan is much better than the American style. Going to a Karaoke box with just your friends is quite fun. I've been able to meet several pretty cool people and am getting lots of practice at Japanese because several of the people I've met do not really speak English. However going out in Japan can be VERY expensive. At some places I've been to it's been 1000 yen for a beer. Usually it's only around 500 yen though occasionally cheaper. There are lot's of good places to eat but they can quickly get expensive if you go to an izakaya or something like that. (There are plenty of cheap places to eat too but the food at the expensive places is sooo good.) And if you stay out past last train, usually a little bit after midnight, you are stuck hanging out till the trains start running again sometime around 5-6 in the morning. The nice thing is though that my host mother is fine with me coming home on the morning trains after going out and drinking with friends. I kinda stumbled into a job working as an English tutor for 1 hour a week and get paid 4000 yen for that so that's helping to defray some of the cost and if I end up getting desperate for money I could actually find some decent paying part-time jobs... or maybe just tutor a couple more people. I'll try to drop a more detailed update soon and get some more pictures up.