Ravioli on the Move

 Today was nice!! I realized I was getting burnt on being with a big group so I decided to take a day mostly to myself. I finally made a trip to the grocery store which is right down the street. Good thing too because they don't give you any bags and I only brought my tote bag and it was filled. Unfortunately I couldn't find rice which is obviously somewhere just not where I was looking so I'll have to go back, but it was time for me to leave for Pilates! I found this Pilates studio called Happynes't which is run by this really nice Belgian lady named Vanessa. It's also right next to a train station between my student residence and the university so I can use my commuter pass to get there which means the trip is on Stanford's dime :p Met some nice people there today, and then I came home and had a bento from the grocery store for lunch. Pretty good.  From there I decided to go to Uji which is a district or town or I'm not really sure - some place that's ...

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The first few days have been really quite smooth, with highlights including a recorded water sound playing immediately next to me as I peed in the Tokyo airport. Ate some foods not knowing what they were (tuna onigiri???)  Intercultural exchange And saw Fuji-san from the plane!!! I was really happy about that. Not Fuji-san but still pretty Got picked up in a fancy car thanks to Granddude's travel agent and the driver was super nice and I spoke a tinnyyyyy bit of Japanese with him. Once I got to the hotel it was fully dark and I was ready to crash (7pm) but luckily ran into Isaac, Chloe, and Kayson on their way out to dinner. We had some delishious food including this fried corn and shrimp situation. Love. Also - chicken in yuzu sauce, pork omelette (not my fav), and soba to fill up at the end. This was a tiny little place we found on a random side street and the owner almost turned us away I think but I'm glad she didn't. Hit the conbini ("convenience" aka 7-11) o...