Some pictures I took so far:

This is my room! Or more like apartment. It's got everything including a washing machine, toilet, kitchen area, fridge and even a balcony where you can hang your laundry to dry. Here's what it looks like from the door.

The toilet is quite cramped, I hit my knee on the sink the other day. And there's the stove and fridge. It gets a bit squeezy in the fridge after I did grocery shopping but maybe its cos I didn't dare put my food on the areas that haven't been cleaned. It's so dirty inside but I decided to spare you guys the gross pics I took of the inside.

And this is the bedroom. The desk is quite tiny but other than that, there's tonnes of storage space! The second pic is the view from the back of the room. If you draw the curtains, there's a sliding glass door which you can unlock to access the balcony.

Froggie bin! It was left behind by the previous owner. So many different spreads and sheets and I don't know thingamajigs, there were 4 of them. So I called a senior in to help me.. Help! Help!!

That's us walking out from the hostel. Sensei is the man wearing a blazer in the front. He takes care of our needs in the hostel and he's really useful to have around when an applicance malfunctions, for eg, when my washing machine hanged on me. The second pic is the view of the hostel from the front. The entrance is rather small.

That blue car never seems to leave that spot, so I kind of use it to make sure I'm going in the right direction. There's another very similar looking blue car parked at a house that also always seems to be there and that's where we turn left to the main road so it serves as a very important road sign indeed... Oh there's Moji, my bus partner on the way to the municipal office. We had our alien registration and health insurance cards done there. She's from Mongolia.

Cherry blossom trees! They were everywhere and I saw many on the bus trip. Sometimes you see only one or two amidst other green trees but other times like this, you'd see a lot of them together.

My lecturer for the Japanese film module used to say that when you see cherry blossoms just a few flowers at a time, they don't look pretty. But when you put a whole lot of trees together, they look really nice. So enjoy!... The overdose of sakura.

Mmm yes. More! More! More! There were lots of petals scattered on the ground.

We were at the post office opening our postal bank accounts. That's either Yan or Tong looking at a poster. I can't tell them apart!

Suspicious looking cat that was right in the middle of a big empty playground. It was actually just crouching there, looking left and right. By the time I took out the camera it decided it was thirsty.