After 2 LONG days of travelling I finally arrived at Akita university. When I arrived in Tokyo airport I quickly realised why unemployment is so low in Japan, it was like an ants nest. They have people who's job is to take your luggage of the conveyer belt... Everybody is really nice. They don't all speak very good english, some just answer "yes, yes" to every thing you ask! So I quickly came up with a solution to find out if he was really trying to help, or just answer "yes, yes". In the middle of trying to get directions, just throw in a "Ah t'es PD! " If he answer "yes, yes" my advice is to go and ask some else before getting sent in the wrong direction. A couple did answer "euh?", and help guiding me through Tokyo.
When I arrived at the university, got my room A108... but also a roommate Yamaguchi kazuma. I haven't met him yet he has moved in, but I think he'll come back when school start. Room is pretty small, 20m2. The bed is a bunk bed, the mattress is latterly a piece of wood and the pillow is a big bag of rice( no joke)!!! This moring when I woke up, I seriously felt like I had been run over by a bus! On the bright side of things, I'm in Global Village, alcohol and GIRLS are allowed compared to the other Houses. So overall I think having a beer and a girl in an uncomfortable bed, is better then having no beer and no girl in comfortable bed.
Today was orientation day, I've met a lot of people already from all over the world. Anthony and Ivan from New Jersey are two of them. We went to visit around the campus this afternoon, it was very hot and very humided. We were going to go for a walk in the woods but didn't go very far after seeing a sign ' Beware of Bears". We are planning to go into town to visit Akita City and do a bit of shopping. Hopefully I can buy a camera and putt some photos on. Tomorrow night, there is a big fire works party in Omigawa (1h train trip) , 1 million people are expected so should be great to watch!
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