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I’m in Tokyo!

Posted on 05. Jun, 2002 @ 7:57 pm by harvey in Culture Views: 57

First things first. My host family has a cable modem, and a wireless access point upstairs. My host dad let me borrow a wireless LAN card, so I’m very comfortable on the internet access front….

Getting here was tough! Right from the start I was having trouble. My flight was canceled, so I had to detour through Texas to get to Narita. After arriving at Narita customs took forever, so my friends ended up waiting like an hour for me at the gate… sorry guys.

From Narita to Hino-shi where I’m staying was like 2 hours. Luckily one of my friends made the journey with me all the way to Hino-shi to help me carry my luggage. Without it, I would have literally been destroyed trying to run through Shinjuku with all that stuff in the after work rush hour.

As soon as I get settled I’ll start posting pictures and writting more.

I need to get my alien registration card and crap so that I can open a bank account and get a phone and stuff… Also I need to find a freakin ATM machine where I can use my visa card to withdraw some money. Hino-shi isn’t exactly in the middle of the city. Heh.

This weekend I’m going to Niigata to an onsen with my host fam. Should be fun! Maybe I’ll get pictures…. but you guys probably don’t want to see me naked huh.

More later,

-Harvey

P.S. I started reading ‘Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world’ by Murakami Haruki. I have copies in Japanese and English, I just read the first chapter of the English one this morning… It’s freakin weird.