This week

Slowly and slowly, I’m getting used to London student’s life, although I cannot spend a lot of reading time because I am so tired that I need to take 8-hours sleeping time.

Monday and Tuesday are days to confine my attention to the classes at school. I have three classes, so I was busy for the preparation and review of classes.

I have no class on Wednesday, so I went to the library at City Uni. This library is located near Angel station, very convenient for me because it takes 30 min. from my accommodation by foot. City University is also international, but different in the atmosphere from SOAS. My friend who goes to City University said the exterior of the school building looks like a city office in Japan. She is the same age as me, so we understand each other well, although we met just only a month ago. In that day, she took me to the school café, but I couldn’t eat a lunch. To tell the truth, I met my host father in the morning, and he gave me a big, wonderful breakfast in a bar. I’m finally able to have a typical English breakfast! Egg, bacon, sausage, potatoes, beans, toast, tea, and black pudding! Black pudding is new to me, and its taste was very unique! Anyway, it was great to see and hear host parents are well.

After that, I got on Northern Line and when I arrived at Angel Station it was raining. In such a case, the small umbrella seems to be very helpful. However, I have no space for it because I always apt to bring as many books as possible… It’s my habit.

After arriving in UK, I noticed a great use of a hood! In Japan, a hood is a kind of fashion accessory. A coat with a hood looks casual. And a coat with a fur hood is popular because it looks gorgeous. It rains heavily and in a long time (whole day or half a day) there, so everybody needs a big umbrella. On the contrary, it functions as a protection against rain here.

On Thursday, I had an accordion lesson, so I went to teacher’s home and spent fruitful and exciting time. It is difficult to find practice time in this busy studying life. But London provides me more practice places than Tokyo. After the lesson I went to Regent’s park and practice for an hour. It is getting colder and colder, so please take care of yourself!