What an unimaginable first three days. Day
One: touched base with two of my classmates, went to Top World
supermarket, bought strange- and not-so-strange-looking food, shopped
for clothes with a guy whose bags didn't make it (Kyle) and a few
other people (Evan, Sabrina, Katie), slept in an 8-tatami-mat room
with two other girls (Katie, Myriah).
Day two: Realized I left my food in the
wrong kitchen (locked of course) and had to go around the outside,
decided to NOT go back the way I came to get to MY seminar house, got
super lost in some random neighborhood in the area, ended up getting
walked back by a Peruvian woman who had lived in Japan for the last
20 years who LENT ME HER BIKE which I ended up parking in a random
bike lot only to be told in the safety meeting that practically
EVERYTHING I did was illegal...
[breathing now]
...and basically stressed out about
allll the paperwork I had to get done.
Day three: Found the east gate (short
route) and a new potential friend (Trevor), drank coffee and talked
for like two hours with my friend Kyle, had zaro or
zabo udon or something for lunch with my
speaking partner Seiji, signed up for a bank account, found out who
my host family is (with a 13-year-old girl) registered my computer
with the university/national whatever with the help of a very nice
tech guy, and ate a real meal at a local restaurant by MYSELF.
And y'know, there's a lot more I could
tell you...but right now I'll just say that I was pretty much on the
verge of tears yesterday, and now I think I'll survive. It's pretty
awesome. More to come! (Like Kyoto and laundry and shopping...next post will be mostly pictures.)
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