I have returned.

( Private )

I must be going. It is... that time of year again.

I'll be back in a few days. Some classwork will inevitably need to be made up.

My partner for the camping trip has been assigned. I... must say that I'm pleased and grateful to Yamamoto-sensei for making the decision he did.

( Private )

( Private to Aizen )

It seems my roommate has left. The rooms have been reassigned, and I am now rooming with another student whom I have only met infrequently.

Hopefully, he will be as pleasant as Ishida-san was.

I know it was you, Ichimaru. Subtlety is apparently not your strong suit.

Rest assured that I will take my suitable revenge when I choose it, and I will not announce it to you beforehand when I do.

I met the new student over the IM system today. She struck me as being... rather peculiar. Certainly, her reaction upon learning about my blindness was possibly the most unusual one I've ever had.

... Although I'm still not certain whether I should be offended or not. "Wow, cool!"

Particularly when she followed up by referring to me as "blind guy dude." I do have a name. What's wrong with Tousen Kaname?

I need to work on my homework. I'm a bit behind on my literature studies thanks to the idiots at my last school who were too incompetent to realize that being blind means that I cannot read a normal print book and I need to get caught up as soon as possible.

I believe I am settling in well. My classes have not proved to be problematic thus far, and I have some idea of what I wish to work on as part of the current major assignment.

I've made the attempt to speak with as many of my fellow students as possible -- to get a sense of what sort of people there are here. It is an interesting survey... in some ways, the student body seems very diverse, but there are certain common threads.

( Private to Aizen )

( Private, Unhackable )

I have arrived on the whole uneventfully. At the moment, I am assigned to room with two others; hopefully, the situation will change soon. While I don't anticipate any particular problems with either of my roommates, I find the situation to be slightly crowded.

On the whole, I have found my treatment thus far favorable. I do not wish to be coddled or considered a student with 'special needs' because I lack an ability most others have; there are abilities I have that others lack. The administration has proven itself competent in that regard, that it doesn't wish to shower pity on me. I hope that my fellow students will take the same view.

I do not wish to sound vain in my commentary, and I hope that any of my fellow students who choose to read this will be forgiving of my arrogant tone. But it seems I am expected to complete an assignment that was given before I arrived. Fair enough -- it has a long duration and I have arrived near the beginning of it. However, it seems that it is geared toward the areas in which I am already, in my own estimation, quite competent. Balance, focus, control... I feel I have mastered, or nearly mastered, all of these. Strategy, perhaps less so, but I find that strategic skill is not something one develops through repetitive training, as one builds one's muscles; rather, because it is dependent upon always encountering new and changing situations, it is something that comes naturally with time.

I suppose the point of the assignment is to be creative. I shall endeavor to therefore find a suitable method of deliberately training myself in strategic matters. There is always the stereotypical fallback of playing board games relating to strategy; I do not believe that such pursuits are particularly effective in training battle strategy, but I suppose they do serve in a general fashion to help one develop an ability to react to changing situations. I hope I can do better than that, though.