First entry from Japan!

Originally posted 02 October 2009 @ 09:05 pm, Tokyo.

I started to write all about being here so far, since I felt like I should... But I guess because I didn't want to (I really just want to sleep, but I ought to stay up in order to overcome jetlag), it was coming out really dull. Here are a handful of bullet points instead, for the meantime.

-Thirteen hour flight oh mai gahh
---No one in the seat next to me!
---New Star Trek was one of the in-flight movies! I got to watch Sylar in space from the sky!
---THIRTEEN HOUR FLIGHT
-The AIKOM tutors (TouDai students) are awesome. <# -Tokyo is wtfhuge. Liek, endless metropolis. I can't even get my head around it. I learned something about this from the 2-hour bus ride through endless densely developed areas. -I have a microwave, fridge, some dishes, cables and other things... Thanks, senpai! <# -I met most of the other AIKOMsei (at least introductions). Really talked with a few of them, especially Zhemin and Sebastian. -It is much warmer here than in Michigan. Seeing how things were just getting colder, slowly moving toward winter, in Michgian, this is excellent. -Eating out is surprisingly reasonably priced. I've yet to really explore to price of food in stores, but I suspect the gap in cost of eating out vs. in is smaller here. -Speaking of eating out, it is a gift from god that all the restaurant menus (so far) have photos of each dish, not just textual lists, as in the USA. -The three times I've ventured out without any bilingual TouDai student guide, twice to a 7-11 konbini, and once with Sebastian to a kaitenzushi place right down the road, my Japanese was, if broken and pained, adequate. +D -People actually (and always) stopping and waiting at red cross-walk lights? What?
-Akai-san, Zhemin and I went to a Batting Center (batting cages)... On the roof of a building. Oh, Tokyo.