First job today was to set up my work area for the next 5 weeks.  Kaoru had bought me a desk and chair, so they needed assembling.  There was also a bit of re-arranging of furniture in her room for it to fit.  After an hour or so, everything was together and set up, short of a power board for it all to run off.  So we went in to Fugisawa for lunch (Mos Burger) and shopping.

As well as the power board, we went in to the kids department and bought a childrens (ages 3-5) puzzle, focused at teaching Hiragana – the first alphabet(??) I was to learn for reading Japanese.  It seemed strange buying myself something from an infants department (sure, I’ve bought myself *toys* before, but not that young!).

On the way home, we went shopping for dinner.  Back at the apartment I got everything connected, and was live!  Kaoru prepared Temaki Sushi for dinner – it’s basically “do it yourself” sushi, so all the food is presented in front of you, you pick up some seaweed, add rice, add food, roll, dip in soy sauce, eat, *and repeat*, *and repeat*, *and repeat*…..  During this, Mum and Dad signed in to Skype, so we had a chat to them while enjoying dinner.

I unwrapped my “toy”, and we started work on me learning the Hiragana.  It’s going to be a long haul….