Typhoons, Tasty Cough Medicine, and Orientation

Sounds like a line-up in one of the smaller tents at Reading festival...

Anyway, first up is the Typhoon that hit mainland Japan around 1pm British time today, and is working its way from South West to North East and is reported to be one of the fiercest to hit Japan on record, at least in the last 10 years. Unfortunatley its 9.40pm here now and as such I cant get any good photos. At the moment its just heavy rain and strongish winds, but you can tell its brewing. Trains and lessons are cancelled, and the P.A. system in my flat told us to stay put for the time being. If its still raging come morning I'll try to edit in some pictures. Anyway, its pretty exciting because its the only thing happening around here! I'll explain momentarily.

Onto the cough medicine, which cost a weighty 1100Y (£8) but has all but banished my cough instantly, which is an improvement on my 4 month summer cough I had. Why on Earth am I reading a blog about cough medicine you ask? Because my prowess with English caresses your mind like a velvet glove of words?

No.

It is literally because I have nothing else to blog. Orientation today was with 4 other people, all of whom seem to be total nerds! Even two reasonably attractive French women couldn't save the day. The total lack of communication from Cardiff, and the very confusing communication from Kobe has left me a little nervous. Me and Basim are still alone in this island of Japanese, without another foriegner to party (which is a very important thing to me) with.

Still, we have a "party" of sorts on Friday, where I will meet all of the foreign exchange students. I just hope there are a few normal people involved, not like "Captain Europe" who I met today. I would describe him as an over enthusiastic continental cousin with a nack for thinking he is the only person in the room.

Anyway, rant over.