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Nothing much happened today in the way of work. Went to the curio coffee shop to ask some follow up questions and then edited the article I had previously written (we shall see what Ms Morita has to say about it). Accompanied another reporter to a supermarket where the company president was giving a presentation to some university students (he talked for an hour about the competition of convenience stores and the company's policies and then got sidetracked into the 90s bubble economy and economics...it was a long time to wait). Got out early.

Dinner was much more interesting. A Russian woman named Diana had stayed with my host family two years ago and since she and her boyfriend were in Japan again, they stopped over for dinner. I found myself doing a lot of translating: Diana's Japanese was much worse than my own, and her boyfriend spoke no Japanese but DID speak French, so the meal (which was extravagant--tempura, yakitori, and sushi!) turned into a pleasant review session for me.

Anyways, here's the four articles that I've been a real part of in the newspaper. The first two are articles about me: the first is about the two interns from Yale and the second is about me, specifically. The second two are articles that I wrote, the first about flower arrangement and the second is about the shinkansen and Kanazawa station. My picture has appeared so much, I feel like a model.





Tomorrow I get to see geisha, and I have some exciting weekend plans that (knock on wood) I'm going to keep a surprise for all of you!

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