First days in Japan!

I arrived in Japan yesterday and got into Oita later that night. I spent about 30+ hours either at an airport, airplane, or riding in a bus. I spent the night at my tutor Narumi-san’s house, because she accidentally dropped my apartment key in the crevice of her car seat hehe. Daijoubu daijoubu, Narumi-san! After being on a plane for so long, I’m happy to be anywhere.
So even though I don’t know how to access the internet yet I’ll just go ahead and type this blog entry now and post it later before I forget about all the wonderful experiences!

There’s so much to say, where do I begin? The plane ride was ok, JAL flight attendents are awesome, I think they fed us 4 times! The flight was about 14 hours long. Upon flying into Tokyo I looked out the window and saw the breath-taking scenary that I had been dreaming of seeing since I was a kid and all I could think about in my head was… “thank god we’re landing, now I can go to the bathroom!” I was on a time constraint my entire trip and had to rush to get to my destination so I did not get to take many pictures. While I was transferring between Narita to Haneda airport I met a really nice American lady who is stationed to work as a nurse at a military base in Okinawa. Oh, dragging 2 bags around isn’t so bad, it’s the 40 lbs of junk I have strapped around my shoulder and back that began to wear down on me. So getting to Oita was easy enough I met my tutors, Narumi and Minako, at Oita Station and they’re awesome and really nice.

We went to Narumi’s home town to get help in fishing out the key that fell between the car seat. Narumi invited us over to her house and her mother cooked a meal for us, that was really nice of her, I wish I knew more proper Japanese to thank her. Sakai is really beautiful, it looks so peaceful and chill, and the mountains are beautiful!... if I were part of a ninja village.. that is where I would totally live haha. It really is gorgeous! The weather is great, so cool and breezy.
For a moment while returning back to Oita, I forgot what Charlotte looks like. It’s so strange, I searched my mind to try and remember what the hell Charlotte looked like, but I just couldn’t! it took me awhile but now I remember. It feels like Charlotte is just a distant memory now.

Ah my tutors were kind enough to take me to the store to buy some supplies and showed me the local shops near my apartment. Living alone is going to be so much fun and a challenge, because while at the store I had no clue what supplies I would need because I’m so used to having my mother buy everything and take care of the house and cook all the meals, so this will definitely build character and help me appreciate my mother a lot more.

At the moment I am in my apartment and there’s an opening in my door where the mail flap thingy is supposed to be, but it fell off so now there’s just a whole there and it’s kinda creepy. I’ll have to cover it up with something soon. People can just peek in and see me! Ok I just went to fix it, I taped some newspaper over it, yes that will keep you peeping toms at bay!.. except now I can see the newspaper blowing in the wind… scary!

I’m so lazy to unpack, so all my clothes are sprawled on the bed. I have a feeling my apartment will look just as messy as my room back in America, panties and clothes just thrown everywhere.
The sun is about to set and I’m very excited, I can see the sun setting behind the buildings outside my balcony! I love watching sunsets! I can see the mountains from my room as well, and the river is right down the street, that’s so awesome. I’m very glad I chose to study at Oita, the scenary is amazing. Who needs Tokyo? :)