Bye Bye Kobe University :~-(

General update on the status of Japan: Hot.

I heard on the evening news that it got to 38C in Nagoya the other day. Poor souls, as if having to live in Nagoya wasn't bad enough already*... Apparently someone there left a spray-can in their car and it exploded, blasting a fair amount of their car interior to bits**.

* The position Nagoya holds in Japanese culture was once explained to me as follows: "Think of Birmingham of 15 years ago (I.E. Before they built all the stuff that makes it vaguely nice these days), with the population replaced with that of Essex."

** Yes, the top story of the national 9pm news was an exploding spray-can. Welcome to a country with approximately zero crime and zero interest in the outside world.

So, rather sadly I've reached the end of my classes at Kobe university, just got the Classical Mechanics exam left :-( (Incidentally, the textbook we use has a bad case of the Japanese strain of what I call "Ray Jones syndrome". Why write F=mv when you can write F=md2x/d2t?)

Off to Tokushima next week, which will be the first time I`ve actually been off Honshu Island... looking forward to it :-)

Oh, and I`ve been watching this Korean TV series lately (Iris. More or less a Korean version of 24/Mission Impossible. They showed it on Japanese TV back in April.). Weird side-effect of this is that last night I had a dream mostly in Japanese but with random people talking in what I`d have to call "Subconsciously-made-up-Korean"...