Yesterday, I attended my first hike with the outdoor club. It didn't start raining until about halfway through our 4 hour hike, but we were still soaked by the end.
We went to Okutama, which is technically still in Tokyo prefecture, but takes about 2 hours to get there from Shinjuku. There were lots of frogs.
I got to talk to some of the people, but as usual many of the Japanese people proved too shy to talk to a foreigner. Still, it was very cool, as I met a Japanese woman who had lived in Traverse City, a Japanese guy who had lived in Charlottesville, and a French guy from Montpelier.
There is a movie event in the middle of this week that I'm going to try to attend, and I still have my hike to Kita-dake this weekend.Cheers,
