So I’m in Japan. Orientation is over, and I still feel like I’m on vacation. I took a lot of pictures and put them in a flickr photoset, and don’t have much else to say beyond the comments in the photos. I cried the entire shuttle ride to the airport, but was pretty normal after that. The flight to Japan was fine (lots of food and entertainment provided — a pleasant surprise). The trip to Tokyo was a little long (2 hours from Narita? ouch), but it was all okay. I’ve been hanging out with the other 6 JETs from SoCal/Arizona the entire plane ride there and throughout the orientation, and I’m going to miss them when we part ways early tomorrow morning. It sucks, because they’re all in very remote regions of Japan.
Probably won’t be posting much over the next bit because I won’t have regular internet service. I have to get my Alien Registration Card sorted (which takes 2 weeks for delivery), and then I can get a phone, internet service, and whatnot set up. I’ll be pretty busy anyways — tomorrow we bus up to Mito, then I bus back to Ryugasaki. Then I bus back up to Ryugasaki the next day, for a welcome party. After that, I have a lot of settling to do, including getting bank accounts set up (I get my own hanko!), ending the week with (hopefully) climbing Mt. Fuji with a bunch of other JETs. I promise pictures.