My home is my castle

So I've moved to Japan, Sendai, which lies pretty much here. I'm on exchange project organized by the University of Tohoku. What I'm actually doing here, or what I should actually be doing is a masters thesis.

I'm doing my thesis in Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer in Neuronal Mass Dynamics group. I don't want to go in detail about my job yet, also I haven't yet seen much of the city either, so I won't talk about it neither... at least for now.

So, as they say, 'My home is my castle' and my, quite humble, casle looks pretty much like this.

The room is simple with few cupboards, bed, table, sink and gas stove. All the closets have been nailed to the wall, so that they would not fall on the inhabitant in case of earthquake, which are said to be rather frequent here. I live in the Sendai University International House, or Tohoku Daigaku Kokusai Koryu Kaikan, which is more commonly called just 'kaikan'. The view from the roof can be seen below.


The roof has some utilities for drying laundry... and barbed wire fence. Guess it's to keep panty-thieves away, hell I know. The kaikan is about 1.5 - 4 km away from the several campses that make the Tohoku University, mine is the closest one, called Seiryou-campus, which is dedicated for medical and dental studies. I'll try to post some pictures of the campus next time or so.

The first week here went basicly to findingout how to country works, or doesn't work, what I can get from where, where my laboratory is, etc etc...

I'll try to keep up blogging more or less regularly, so more stories and more images shouls appear on 'Mori no Miyako' in the future. ... What the Hell is Mori no Miyako you might ask. In short, it's nick name for Sendai, and it means 'Capital of Forests'. The name seems quite apt, as even from the roof of our dorm, we can see the rolling forests that surround this smallish town.

So my friends back in Finland and elsewhere, take care.