AUGUST 21, 2009
Hi everyone, I'M IN JAPAN!!! Myself and 8 other AIIU students, 7 (i think!) Canadians, 2 Kiwis and 5 Americans are staying at an awesome hotel in Chiba (near Tokyo). Our plane arrived early this morning after quite an exciting flight.
Probably the most exciting was when we flew through a typhoon between Guam and Taipei. At about 2:30am, the "fasten seatbelt" sign turned on because there was thunder and lightning all around the plane. Although i was asleep at the time, apparently there was turbulence for about half and hour.
When i woke up at about 5:30, breakfast was just being served - Japanese fish and rice OR scrambled eggs and bacon. Probably for the best, i chose to skip breakfast all together (apparently the eggs were all watery and made some peolpe sick). Instead, i decided to watch a quick episode of Family Guy (world's funniest show!) and take photos of the view from the plane...
We arrived at Narita International Airport at about 6:30am and made our way through customs in about 15 minutes. We then met 'Mami' (one of our JFIE supervisors), sent out luggage to out host family and had 'free time' for 2 hours at Narita Airport.
Next, we caught the train to Narita station (nice photo Claudia!) and met with the Canadian students and our other supervisors (Take, Yoko, Nao.....and i can't remember the rest). We all spent about 4 hours walking around Narita visiting temples and weird Japanese shops in 32C heat!!!
The weather so far has been CRAZY!!!! Not only is it boiling hot, but it is soooooooooo humid that i have been sweating almost non-stop (gross i know...). And, apparently it doesn't start cooling down in my prefecture until the end of October!
Anyway, i'm going to be late for a lecture if i stay on the computer any longer so i'd better go. I'm having a great time and missing everyone a bit (not homesick though which is a good thing).
I'll post another blog as soon as i can. Cya!
