Orientation...

is over. So I just have to take placement tests for English, math, and Japanese. Blegh.

All this orientation stuff makes me feel like a freshman again.

I played L4D tonight with Lee. I only actually died once, I was amazed.

Aki & Paul, our dorm managers, are pretty chill, which is nice.

Japanese trains still freak me out a bit.

I'm continuing to meet people, which is good.

Seeing certain things around Tokyo make me giggle. Mostly silly Engrish, but other things too.

Walking from the train station to campus, you can see (what I think is) Tokyo Tower.

I hope to explore more of Tokyo this weekend if I get a chance (though I won't be in Roppongi at night).

Places I want to visit before I leave Japan (if I have the time & money):
Nagoya
Osaka
Kyoto
Hokkaido (mostly Chitose)
Taiwan
Seoul
Shanghai, Beijing, or Hong Kong
and of course I want to go back to Sadogashima!

Japan

So I spent all of New Year's Day flying.

I effing hate airplanes.

I finally got to Tokyo, got to my hotel, passed out.

Second day, I decide to venture. I didn't know where the shuttle was going. This tan foreign girl next to me asks, I tell her I dunno. Her name is Saba, she's Persian and lives in Canada.

So we make our way to to the temple in Narita (there was a crapload of people there). We poke around, take pictures, look at different shops.

We make our way back, chill, then part ways (she's in Malaysia now).

Today, I woke up, showered, had milk, coffee, and an orange for breakfast. Headed to the airport, then took the bus to the hotel where I'd meet the TUJ people. From there, we came to the dorms.

My dorm is TINY (pics later).

I met a some girls on my floor, Yuni (she's from Singapore), Lucia (she's from Paris but I'm pretty sure she's Chinese), Jade, Samantha, and one or two more.

So, yeah. Orientation begins tomorrow.

FINALLY

So I'll be leaving for Japan on the 1st.

TUJ, here I come!

Leaving on a jet plane...

No matter how much it breaks my heart, I'm leaving.

I have to.

He'd make me go, even if I decided to stay.

If I stay in this place any longer I'll go crazy.

Until August... then I'm gone.