A thought

In Tokyo people don't look at me so much, at least not compared to when I was in Osaka. Here they never stare at me. Sometimes I notice a glance, but they always divert their eyes quickly.

I had dinner with Tomo and Sachi yesterday. Yakiniku at Shibuya. A really good moment. I hadn't met Tomo for about half a year and Sachi for more than 2 years and it was really, really good to see them again. Both seem to have gotten used to Tokyo, which is nice since they thought that the big crowds of Tokyo seemed like a crazy festival in the begining. Tomo's opinion is that people here are more cold, more closed. Maybe this explains why I don't feel stared at. That, together with the fact that there are a lot of foreigners here. I guess poeple here are used to all kinds of faces. After the dinner I took the night-train home to the dorm. A classic packed subway. I didn't really need to hold on to anything, I couldn't fall over anyway. And when I arrived to my station I realized that I was on the wrong side of the wagon and just barely made it out to the platform before the doors closed.

Yesterday was the first day in the lab. Everyone is nice and kind to me. And Professor Kato seems like a very good supervisor. Things are moving on very, very fast. I used some of their equipment (polarized optical microscopy, they call it "pomu") to look at Ichikawa's liquid crystals (LC) the first day. And today I began some experiments to synthesize my own LCs. Note that this is the second day in school...

Tomorrow Natsuko is coming here.

Good night!