First Night Here

Hey everyone! It's my first night in Japan, and I have to say, it's pretty amazing. The plane coming in was early so I got to everywhere I needed to be on time, despite there being a Detour because of a volcano eruption. 13 hours is a long time for a flight, but honestly the time seemed to go by enough. Maybe I slept, I feel I didn't that much, hence the ridiculous tiredness now, which will be satiated by bed shortly, fear not. OH, before I forget, advertisement, you should watch The Secret Life of Bees, it's really good.

Anyway, at Narita I got my luggage with little trouble, stumbled through the Japanese points with English, filled out my Customs forms, and then made it to the actual lobby. The IES people were still waiting for more people, so that was great, and I exchanged money and sent my luggage to my dorm via Luggage Taxi service things. I actually have no idea how the heck these things work, but hopefully they do and I see my luggage again...

Then I went with a few other people and purchased bus tickets, which was confusing because we didn't know where we were going, but this one girl had purchased one before so we told the lady at the desk we wanted one like hers. Kinda reminded me of the Amazing Race really. And Yen is really cool. You should read about it. I have most of them but the 50 Yen coin.

The city is quite amazing, at least from the trip to the OVTA from the Airport. There is actually quite a bit of English on billboards and whatnot. Not so much in actual rooms like the one I'm in now, but it's awesome nonetheless. I'm in the Overseas Vocational Training Association now, it's like a hotel but not quite. The lights are crazy, to turn them on you have to put this popsicle stick thing attached to your keys into a little switch, probably to save electricity because you can't leave the lights on without your keys. There is also a 3 foot deep or so bath, which I am going to utilize shortly, haha.

I tried putting pictures on Flickr and Photobucket, perhaps it's my internet, but the uploading failed. I did manage to get them on Facebook, so here are links to the Detroit pictures and to the Japan Pictures.

Alright, well tomorrow is a busy day, and I'm going to go take a bath then go to bed. Jet lag doesn't seem to be effecting me at all? I don't know, perhaps it's my completely random sleep schedule. Or maybe I'll feel it later, haha. Either way, be back to report more later!

お休みなさい!