#settlinghard

I hate to make this a pattern, but once again I have far too many things to record here and not enough creative juice in me to write it out nicely, so photos will have to suffice..

So here are a few of the highlights of the last ten days.

#1: picnic with my host mum and sister:

with the cutest homemade bento box ever <3 thanks hiromi!

#2: surprise visit to tennoji zoo, courtesy once again, of soki and yosuke:

koala-chan hiding in a tree

chill as bat

how to do a cat walk

paint me like one of your french wolves

somehow japanese elephants smell less than the ones in australia…

swaggiest polar bear

#3: first visit to universal studios Japan:

forgot to take this at the beginning so it was kinda dark…

harry potter world (ft. hogwarts) a;lsdkfajs;dlkfj;!

and hogsmeade

hello hagrid!

bloody hell ron, not again

#4: revisit to USJ:

managed to catch the parade this time round

and some dinosaur butt

capped off the evening with oktoberfest and karaoke until early hours

The days in between were spent with the people I’ve gotten to know here. Someone told me before exchange began to expect life in general to be pretty much the same as back at home, and I think I understand what they meant now. I expected to go traveling every other weekend to all the exotic places in the surrounding regions of Japan, but to be honest, just like in Canberra, time here flies without me having to move. Pleasant dinner dates with the girls in a cute bar, or relaxing Sundays geocaching in the neighbourhood, or even just spontaneously finding myself in an acapella group, or rainy evenings eating stupid amounts of sushi train, these are the experiences that make up my daily life here and although I frequently dream of going to other cities, I wouldn’t go back and spend those days any other way.