Life really has been non-stop here in Japan. Ever since arriving in Tokyo, I've been constantly presented with new people, new places, new adventures. So much so that I'm afraid I haven't had enough time to share it all. Now I have my work cut out for me.
Tokyo Orientation
Arrival was very, very hot. I was immediately happy that I had decided to wear shorts under my long pants. As I have since discovered, Japan is hot and absurdly humid. There have been some cloudy, rainy days and I've come to prefer them to the heat the sun brings in.
As soon as we gathered our luggage we were ushered through the airport by current JETs wearing fluorescent shirts. There was one around every corner. They helped us onto buses which took us to the Keio plaza hotel in Shinjuku.
I could go into orientation in detail, but that would be boring. It was mostly schmoozing and going to lectures. It felt very much like college orientation, complete with epic parties at night (I was going to post a picture from one of these parties, but I've been warned about posting anything incriminating).
Anyway, I met a lot of really wonderful people and had a good time going out in Tokyo. Three days later I was on a shinkansen (bullet train) with Daphne, my new coworker from Singapore, on our way to Niigata.
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