My hotel room with all my luggage!
My lunch, Mrs. Makise's (Asuka's Mom) delicious ramen.
Today I have arrived at the Hotel Sunroute, the location of my orientation. Tomorrow at 7:00am I have my interview for my host family and then a tour of the Waseda campus.
Asuka took me 1 1/2 hours by train to the Takanobaba station where my hotel and campus are located. It was tough with all my luggage (especially since we had to switch trains in Tokyo station, which is the most busy) but we managed pretty well. When we went inside the hotel, we learned that we were not allowed to leave! This was bad, because Asuka wanted to show me some of the hot spots to go. We thought this was dumb, so we left anyways with my roommate Su-en in tow. She took us to a 100 Yen store and a local cafe where I had a green tea chocolate muffin.
Of particular note, I watched some fun Japanese game shows at Asuka's. One, as far as I could tell, involved teams guessing how much several women's plastic surgery cost. In another, contestants guessed what stroke order certain characters were written. Very strange!
Thanks for all the fun comments, and I will try to write tomorrow!
3 comments:
Maddy, I miss you so much! I was thinking of going to get some boba with you the other day, but then I realized that you were in Japan :(
Everything looks so fun there! I love that picture of you on the teacup ride... it's a good one. I hope your Japanese is progressing well!
Is that one of those capsule hotels?
No mom, its not a capsule hotel...
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