Saturday, June 13, 2009

Tokyo and host family

So, after my incredibly long plane ride, i went to tokyo. We were lectured by the US embassy people, boring. We also went to Meiji Shirne. HUGE place. It was really cool, but we were only staying there shortly. After that, harajuku.... NOW, before you tell me how lucky i am, let me tell you, walking around in dorky semi formal american clothes around the streets of expermental fashions versus tall red headed people will get many death glares and looks head-to-toe. GAAAHHH, harajuku is RACIST. Do not travel there with only white gaijin, bad idea.

Any way, i stayed at the hotel, blah, blah, blah. The whole entire time i was in tokyo, and even now in Otsu, I have been feeling dizzy. I am not dehidrated, and nor am I sleep deprived. Lets just say to those midwesterners, you gain a pair of sea legs over because you can feel the slightest bit of change in the ground if it does not move at home. Japan moves a quater of an inch each year.

Saturday morning we went to tokyo train station where i grabbed the Shincansen (speed bullet train). Another misconsection. The speed bullet train CAN go really fast, but it doesnt mean it will. We went as fast as a train through the rookies goes, except everywhere was increibly populated, wgich is why we went so slow.

I get off the train and meat my host mom, Michi and my host sister, Saya who is 5. Now, if you who were intrested in my rambling about my host family before, i said that my host mothers name was Kimiko, and my host sister was 12. That is because swine flu restricts me from living with a doctor and nurse mother. So I am staying the Fujihara, till the 30th, and then i go over to the other family. Of course no body tells me this till i meet my now "1st" host mother and are given an explanation by her. MY PARENTS KNEW, YFU KNEW, I DID NOT! Miscommunication, ne?
Any way, still in otsu, with little siblings and two parents. I start high school on tuesday (which they do here anyway) and I get to go shopping tomorrow at the mall :D.

One last note before i eat lunch, japanese heated toilet seats can get really hot, you are warned.

2 comments:

  1. uhhhhhhhhh lucky lucky man I wish I could be in japan right now uhhh

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  2. so how is it going there are the people nice

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