Back into a routine

Well, classes have officially begun, and it seems as though I’ve chosen some good ones. My first elective is called ‘Japanese Antiquity and its Political Uses in the Modern Era’, which is an interesting topic, and even though that class hasn’t actually met yet (it’s a Monday class, and we have yet to have a Monday with classes) I think that it will be interesting. My other class is ‘Kyoto and the History of its Housing’, which is taught by an actual architect and is already engaging, especially since it’s a topic that I don’t really know very much about yet. In addition to those I have Japanese class again, but everyone shifted professors, so it’s almost like a new class.
Something happened to a friend of mine that I think is worth mentioning. She was walking home one evening (about 6ish, she said) and was almost in front of her homestay where she hear a motor coming up quickly to one side of her. At first she thought that it was a car, and so was startled when she felt it brush against her, but it was in fact a motorcycle, the rider of which had just grabbed her bag. The rider was wearing a helmet with a dark visor, and got away quickly enough that she had no hope of chasing it. Inside her bag was, of course, pretty much everything that she had that was of value: DS portable video game, cell phone, wallet, alien registration card, textbooks and tickets to two different Takarazuka shows. She reported it to the police, and they actually went to the first of the shows for which her tickets had been taken to see if the thief was stupid enough to use them (he wasn’t). Everyone always talks about how safe Japan is, visitors and natives both, but it’s probably important to remember that there is no place that is completely safe.
-I really need to get back into shape for school.
-I need to be more careful about my purse, and I’m thinking that I’m going to start using a shorter strap (to keep it closer to my body when I walk).
-The Takarazuka tickets were the biggest worry for my friend. I think that they would have been for me as well, sadly.