I am here. It’s Crap... i just pushed the japanese button and i cant figure out how to change it back. ok i think i have it now. Well, I have dozens of stories, mostly about my first ten minutes here, so i cant get to them all, but ill give a quick rundown when I can.
First and foremost I have found the internet cafe, it costs about 380 yen an hour which is about 3.40 american, and they suppossedly serve drinks, which i have yet to see. This all means that I can write fairly often, but I dont know about photos yet so we ill see.
My friends Tina, Megan, Jeff, and Lindsay have all lived abroad. Tina In Germany, Megan in the netherlands, and jeff and lins in Italy. Let me tell you, and this really isnt a fair comparison since i never moved to those countries or tried to live there, but if we american sget a culrute shock from moving to a foreign land, then moving to Japan is like a culture KICK IN THE CROTCH!! I have never felt more helpless in my entire life, and it makes it easy to realize why so many people fail and move home before too long. I cannot lie and say that when I walked to my apartment late last night i felt hunky dory, honestly I was scared to death. So many people, so many signs, even the guy who walked to my place with me got lost. heh. But I will not leave. I can tell that this will be an amazing experience for me, and something that i will look back on fondly. In addition, while registering for my alien card, i found out about 2 hour japanese lessons for only 100 yen! thats less than a dollar! and they are open evry day, so i can pick and choose my time.
By the way, for anyone interested, my time is 14 hours ahead of central standard, making it 11:40 am for me and 9:40 pm the night before for you.
o, and another disclaimer. the japanese must have the tiniest fingers on earth because just about every other word i am bumping another key, so please bear with me on the spelling.
I have met my roommates, matt and steven, nice guys, but they make my old apartment look like the ritz in cleanliness terms.
On monday i have orientation at the tokyo coorperate office in the shinjuku area. the shinjuku station is considered to be the busiest subwy station on the planet, literally a million people use that station alone each day, so that should be fun.
i will be getting a cell phone. not so much to call home, but the phones here are OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!! the current free phone offered by my company takes videos, and has a 2 megapixel camera. my usual camera is 3.2 so you get the idea. The other reason is EMAIL! for 3 yen (3 cents) i can send and receive emails (not long ones or mass emailings, just up to 180 charactgers, but enough to say hi). i can handle 3 cents, so those of you that commhjunicate frequently with me, look forward to it.
That s it for now, i will wirte more later, as for now im going to find out where my beverage is and see about IM. take care all!
Colonel San
3 comments:
Dude! Are you taller than everybody there?
(This is John. It made me post anonymously.)
along the same lines as jeff's comment:
The Old 97's are playing here on Sunday (toronto). I'd be lying if I said it's going to bring back memories of them playing at Trees, and, yes, even the ridglea...uh oh..which makes me think of when we saw Queens of the Stone Age there.
er...rather..watched them yell angry obscenities about how much their girlfriends sucked in front of a light show.
Are your apartment walls made of paper? Where did I hear that before? Are you sleeping in a cubby hole? I thought there was only something like 3 ft of room for every person. Maybe that's in China.
Have you hit the mcdonalds yet?
nope, no paper walls. my room is pretty small though. actually i think my wall is pretty thick. i did crash last night at a friend of my roommates place and she had some paper walls and an amazing view, so i think nova just gets the crap apts. good lord is it dirty. yeah saw the old 97s a month or so ago. probably the best show of theirs i had ever been to. i am jealous that they are there and not here, but if they were here the tix would most likely be 60-80 bucks as all the other shows are.
no i am not taller than evryone else, more often then not about the same height. but damn that would be nice, if not for just one time to be the tallest guy in the room. o wait, ive been a teacher, so, crap, thats my one shot.
very very humbling.
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