Breakfast was rice, seaweed, and natto; during the day I got completely bogged down trying to deploy Flask on Google App Engine and work with Google Open Connect, while also having to start preparing for a presentation. At lunch I ate and had coffee with Ito-san, and in the evening I walked to Tsutaya Books Daikanyama to listen to music before making my way home along deserted nighttime streets.

After badly underestimating how crowded the 9:04 train would be, I had to wait for the next one; the day was spent checking backups, setting up Redis on EC2, and dealing with an ssh tunnel, while the evening turned into a slightly awkward but warm walk through LOFT with another intern.

As I gradually got used to commuting and navigating Shibuya Station, the day was mostly spent learning AWS, Elastic IP, Route 53, and S3 backups; I ended up eating ramen for both lunch and dinner, and in the evening I also watched the lunar eclipse with coworkers.

My commuting rhythm started to settle down as I spent the day reading git and Python documentation and beginning to explore AWS; at lunch I ate sushi and talked about manga with coworkers, then spent the evening browsing LOFT and Muji in Shibuya before finally seeing Hachiko.

I headed to HDE on a typhoon day, found my way through Shibuya in the rain, and finished introductions and laptop setup after arriving soaked; lunch with coworkers and a view of Mount Fuji made my first day in a Japanese office feel both tense and fresh.

A typhoon hit on my second day in Tokyo, so I mostly stayed in, browsed online, and bought daily necessities; small frustrations with unstable internet and limited Japanese reminded me to be more proactive about fitting into life here.

I flew from Taipei Songshan to Haneda, took the Keikyu and Yamanote Lines to Shinjuku to handle my housing contract, and settled near Toritsu-Daigaku Station with 27 kilograms of luggage; after shopping that night, I reflected on my goals for the trip and reminded myself to change something in these short two months.