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Well, I did say that it was a small DIY project. Here's a picture of the final product.

It's basically a big, sticky version of the little Velcro cable ties from the dollar store.

Train Warning-er

There are a lot of small train overpasses here. They're fairly minimally constructed; just a couple of girders bolted together with a mesh to keep things from falling on peoples heads underneath. If you're under the overpass when the train goes by, it is almost painfully loud.
I didn't notice it until today, but there's a strange hissing noise that you hear if you stand under the overpass if a train is coming. It gives you a few seconds' warning, which is plenty of time to plug your ears or get out from under it.

Quick Post

I have a test in about twenty minutes, so this is going to be quick.

The OMGREEN suit works great. The only parts of me that got wet were my face (I was on my bike and the water coming down at an angle due to my forward movement... yeah.) and hands (I bloused my gloves backwards. Oops.), which was pretty cool.

I got my interview results back, and the school apparently feels I'm a "low intermediate" Japanese-doing person. On the 1-5 class scale, I'm in the level 3 class. On the 1-10 general Japanese-ness scale, that puts me at a 4. It feels about right, given my abilities.

Judo again tonight, and I have some reading after that, so I'll try and get some posts up tomorrow evening. I have to register for classes tomorrow, too. After that is the weekend, and I just need to write a 400-word essay in Japanese. Um.

The test in a bit is on 20 漢字 (chinese character) compounds. They test us on reading 20 new ones every day, then at some later point, they'll test our writing. I need to go study for this 「小テスト」 (little test). It's basically a quiz.