FRIDAY, MAY 18, 9PM (blogger is in Japanese so I havent' changed the date format yet!)


Damn, but will I be in shape and very svelte when I get back!

Still suffering from jetlag so I was in bed at 8:30 last night and up around 5:30 this morning! Took the opportunity to have a long shower, talk to some people on MSN, etc. Met people downstairs to go to school and at Shimotokaido Norman took the newly arrived students from Korea to get their passes and I continued on with Marguerite and Ryan. All was well until I got to Shinjuku where I lost them. I knew what line I had to transfer to but didnt' know which train to take. I picked one, it was the wrong one, I went one station in the wrong direction, got off, and went back the way I came. It wasn't too bad- I got to class only 10mins late but of course, Ryan was in my class and everyone was worried about me!

By the by, Mike, I am in C-class with Tanaka sensei. Go me!

After 2 hours of class we went to the main building for the opening ceremony where all my other friends in B-class knew I had gotten lost. I apparently didn't have it as bad as Eric and Stacy, who ended up near Akihabara and had to call the university to get back in the right track. Opening ceremony passed quickly and then we had lunch in the cafeteria with some of the office staff. Steven asked if any of us wanted to go to Akihabara so we all set out to walk- soooo far, but good exercise I kept telling myself! I lost track of how long, but at least an hour's walk.

Akihabara was one of th emost interesting places I have ever seen- so loud on the streets, anime, cosplay, and otaku, electronics and cellphones everywhere! If you are a nerd of any kind, this is the place for you! We went to a 5story video game area with video, prize, and arcade games. The funnything about Japan is that you can smoke inside, so the 5th floor was full of salary men in suits playing computerized mahjong and smoking a pack of cigarettes.

From Akihabara we went to Nakano station and went to an all you can eat bbq place- all the yakiniku you can eat = yum! It was certainly different from the korean bbq in toronto b/c we were ordering in Japanese!! Much meat later we came home, tired, full, and kind of sore. Now it is the weekend and tomorrow we have plans to go do some touristy stuff.

And my bro got into Vic- Congrats Chris!

So tired and have to wash my dishes from this morning.

See the updated facebook album for pics!

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