Panida

To everyone that I have been writing emails to, I would love to respond individually and I will as to details of my day but if I do that, I won't want to write here and then things won't be centralized... which is the number one thing for Japanese people. Huh... either I ate really unhealthily (just cooked beef and rice) or it's really close to my bedtime! 8:26 PM... I got Teka and her roommate Katie, Patrick who invited Al Amanda and Will, and my roommate invited Leslie who got her roommate and Teka invited Elle and her roommate Yasmine. Ok, point is, half of IES was there today though we would split up but it was fun. We met up to go to the Anime convention. The first gaijin moment was when we saw ... read more

I don't expect anyone to be reading this... it's to help my memory years from now when i look back, so i apologize for boring you in advance. So... it's 12:31 AM in Japan and I'm not sleeping. That's because, at around 5:10, I decided to take a nap and woke up about an hour ago... and thus I missed dinner and now i'm here stealing free wifi. The doors to this place lock after 11 so if I leave to go into the rain I can't come back in. Breakfast was good, miso, cooked salmon, rice and seaweed. Had breakfast with Patrick, a business major? from Penn State. A lot (3) of business majors trying to expand their realm of influence. Then there was morning session of passports, post offices, atms and self introductions. Apparently ... read more

First Day Whoo it's my first day here. So tired. Got off a 14 hour flight, ears didn't pop as badly this time. I made a friend, a Japanese lady sitting next to me, her name is Misa. I got to practice a little Japanese since she didn't know English. When she saw me cover my years, she offered me yummy grape candy =D Then we got through customs, I saw two people holding a Thai passport and asked in Thai if they've ever been here and to direct me to the luggage retrieval place. They saw my passport and was like "why is your passport like that?" great... so i can't pass for Thai. Oh, but i did pass for Japanese on the plane cuz multiple flight attendants spoke to me first in Japanese. ... read more