定期券!

we finally got our doshisha id cards this afternoon ~ which makes it possible for us to buy teikiken, or commuting passes, at a lower price.  the subway costs me ￥7500/month and the hankyu ￥2300/month... which isn't bad. [and doesn't matter anyway because we get reimbursed by akp] the forms weren't too complicated to fill out, thank goodness. 

i definitely will be looking forward to using the passes tomorrow. up until today, we were using single tickets [which some of us bought each day] each way.

today was also the first day of japanese class. it won't be a total breeze, but it will probably be really cozy and comfortable compared to third-year summer language school. and being the nerd that i am most of the time, i asked to correct my placement exam essay with 桑平先生 after class. 

[and i did ^_^]