Minoh and the beginning of my blog

I will start out by saying that I do not know if "Minoh" is actually spelled that way. It could be "Mino" or "Mino-o". I have seen it spelled all of these ways, on various maps and signs. You can choose for yourself. :)

So I finally bought into doing this blog thing. I think it will be a nice way to update the things that are going on here, so I don't have to send out mass e-mails or write everyone. I started going cross-eyed after trying that the first few weeks.

I can't believe I have been living in Japan for a month now. Time has gone by fast, and I am starting to settle down now because the REU students went back to America on Saturday. I had a fun time exploring Japan with them and getting to know them better. So much has happened, in fact, that I think I need to start from the beginning. Unfortunately, I don't have much time to do so at the moment, but I plan to sometime this week. It will be nice to look back at this and keep a decent record of what's going on here. So, I suppose I will leave the first entry short and sweet, since the rest will probably not be as short... or sweet for that matter. :)