There aren't as many animals on campus as I am used to in Kentucky, with no squirrels and chipmunks running around. I am glad that all of the spiders and stinkbugs that were literally everywhere the past month and a half are mostly gone now. I'm not missing the huge hornets, either. If you haven't guessed, I am not a fan of bugs-- spiders and stinkbugs in particular. I am letting a few harmless spiders live in my room and eat other bugs, but there was a stinkbug that decided to get into the ceiling light and got stuck there for more than a day.
The coolest thing I saw in nature this week would have to be the trees outside of a culture center I visited. The branches were cut seemingly in the middle and it looked kind of weird. With leaves, the trees probably look really cool because I can see how much effort went into cutting them so specifically.
About half of the deciduous trees have shed their leaves, but the rest of them are still showing a beautiful orange.They contrast a lot with all of the evergreen trees, which probably make up a third of the trees on campus. I like them because it keeps a lot of green around even with it getting so cold.
The language spoken here is Japanese, as it is everywhere in Japan, but the Akita dialect (Akita-ben) is spoken here. It is said to be one of the hardest Japanese dialects to understand and sometimes has subtitles used for it on national media. It is treated as the typical rural accent in pop culture.
