Well, I finally found a coffee drink that I like at Starbucks. Okay, Janelle and others that know how much I hate coffee, don't get TOO shocked-it's a banana coconut frappuccino, and it apparently has so little coffee in it, I can just barely taste a slight bitterness in it. (I think it tastes more like a milkshake than anything else.)
Everyone's probably getting completely sick of hearing this, but I just can't get over how normal it seems for me to be here already.
Tomorrow the high school students are all going on a field trip that I can't join because of a scheduling conflict with my private tutoring students, so I will get most of the afternoon off, and will hopefully use it to take an extended bike ride, if the weather cooperates. There's a beautiful park on a hill not too far away that I visited the second week I was here, but I didn't have my camera with me. I'll try to get some good city view pictures and post them.
Next week is Golden Week, the first week in May that has three national holidays next to each other on the calendar. Many people have several days off, including students. Our school has only two days of classes, so I'll get a little break and might try to take a short trip.
