I am in Japan!
Hello everyone, it has been awhile since I have updated. This will not be a very long update. Some of you may not now this but I am in Japan right now, and I will be here for another week. I am here doing research at Spring-8 near Osaka. It has been a nice trip, I had a chance to sight see some before the huge work load. A few highlights so far is I went to where the Last Samurai movie was filmed, it is a nice area. I also saw Japan’s best castle and climbed to the top. It is impressive. I have tried various types of food that I have not had a chance to eat before. And yes I ate some sushi; one of the secretaries showed us a nice sushi restaurant. It was good sushi. I have drunk more tea and coffee this past week than I have drunk in months. The people here are so nice, and go out of their way to help you. Plus when ever you show up you are offered tea or coffee. It is a very nice place. I can barely understand most of what people say, but they are patient with me and if they don’t know any English I have been able to get by with hand gestures. I will chat more about this later, but I have 12 hour days for the next several days so I am beat right now. I will try to update more often.