An email I sent to my mom... It covered what I wanted to say here, mostly :P

Class starts tomorrow! We had orientation and a welcome ceremony today, which was fun. Well the welcome ceremony was, lol. I was really suprised and happy that there are cultural programs planned for us every Thursday afternoon. We don't have to go to them, but we could sign up for them today. The JWU students are putting them on for us and either doing cultural activities in the University or taking us on excursions. We could choose between the in-university programs, like making paper fans, or the out of university programs, which are things like going to a temple and meditating, going on a cool thrift store district excursion, going to the Meiji shrine, going to the NHK japanese television channel's filming station and interactive center, and going to the Japanese Diet building and learning about Japanese parliament. I obviously signed up for all of the out of university programs since they sound so fun! :) So I'll be going to one every Thursday night.
We met a lot of really nice japanese students, who were extremely eager to talk to us... we kind of spoke in a mix of japanese and english so it was a stretch on both ends but it was really useful. Japanese people generally really love me. Haha. It's like I can't make a mistake because I am a cute blond blond girl who can kind of speak japanese.. suddenly I seem like a "real pro". It's weird. Another girl in the program said I was lucky because asian people who come to Japan who can kind of speak japanese at our level get weird looks if they mess up, but if a white person opens their mouth and speaks japanese, it's unexpected and exciting. Therefore everyone is immediately more interested in me (hopefully mostly in a friendly way, haha).
I also got national health insurance today with a group of other students and we explored ikebukuro for a couple hours after.. it's really an exciting place, with lots of music shops, and it's only one stop from Sugamo station. How convenient!
I'm going to take a shower and go to bed soon since class starts at nine tomorrow... woo. I've been going to bed early though, since I get really tired if I stay up past 12. How convenient! I guess this is a good thing for me!
I've been wanting to tack the word "ne" on every single sentence I've spoken in english today.. It's like the equivalent of "right?" or "of course" in japanese, depending on the context. Like "Totemo muzukashii neeee" would be like "It's really really difficult, huh?" My japanese is already getting better just from speaking it! And I'm getting better at Kanji just from needing to identify certain things here like soymilk :P
Well I'm gonna go take a shower! Sayonara suckers!