First Blog Attempt

I have been in Japan now for 2 weeks and every day has been very exciting. It is absolutely great to be with Mako again and she has been a huge help in helping me get acquainted with Osaka. Yesterday I began a language course offered by the local YMCA. In my class there was 1 Canadian, 1 American, and 1 Filipino student. We all spoke English so the class was fairly smootht. I am hoping to improve my Japanese, especially reading and listening. I've already had several experiences where someone was talking to me in Japanese and all I could do was nod my head or keep saying hai even though I had no idea what they were talking about. My next task is now to find some work...