A Blogful of Dollars

I wrote this yesterday Tuesday September 7 but couldn`t post it till now.

Well now that I`m finally in Japan, this fun-blog can really kick off. So first off, I`m sure you`re interested in how the traveling was. The answer: awful, sort of. Traveling to LAX was pretty uneventful. We got there with no real problem. Got some food, met up witht he people from the other school. Then as we`re getting on the plane I get upgraded to economy plus, which granted me an extra 5 inches of leg space. So at this point the trip`s looking pretty freaking awesome. This however is when the bad times start to roll in.

So we get on the plane, and the flight people tell us that there is a problem with communications that they need 30 minutes to fix. So two hours later we`re disembarking from the plane so that they can get us a new one. Almost 4 hours after we were supposed to take off we finally get in the air for an 11 hour flight. Now just a little side note for those interested, when flying to Japan, the plane doesn`t go straight over the ocean. It flies up near the Bering straight and then back down. I just thought that was kind of interesting.

So anyway after watching the same movie five times and a lack luster meal we arrive in Japan. One thing was apparent upon arrival, it was very humid here, and I was very glad I was wearing shorts. So we`re met at the airport by some of the Japanese students, luckily we were able to e-mail the university to inform them that we would be late. We ended up missing the welcome party that they were gonna have for us, but we went to Coco`s instead, and after that we went to Seven Eleven and got some breakfast for the next day. Also, the slippers they have here are way too small.

The following day we go through some orientation, filled out some forms, and applied for work permits and alien registration, but at lunch we got some food in a convenience store, which of course means it`s time for “Tom! Don`t eat that!” Today I had onigiri, which is rice filled with some sort of awesome wrapped in seaweed. After struggling immensely to figure out how it opened, I manage to bite into the ball of I didn`t really know what to what it was. Point is though is that that didn`t matter because whatever it was tasted delicious. Best part too is that it was very cheap. Bottom line readers, onigiri is delicious and they should sell it in all convenience stores even in America because it`s that good.

After that we bought our necessities at the \100 store and the supermarket across the street. There were so many interesting things at the \100 store it was hard not to buy more that I needed, and I probably did. When we got back I don`t really remember swhat I did, but I ended up falling asleep at some point. Enough of that though I`m done for now. Check back later.