First Day of Orientation

Not much to say about today, I totally FAILED

Woke up around 7am, tried to buy poptarts from the vending machine for breakfast only to have the machine eat my money -.-

After I showered, I tried using the hairdryer, but it started smelling like a fire, and there was smoke coming out of the hairdryer.... -.- x2

Wanted to go out to eat with Camp A people and maybe even walk around Japan for a bit tonight, but took a "nap" and didn't wake up for 4 hours...... -.- x3

I realized I left some stuff at home... when I re-packed, I must've forgotten to check all the pockets, because one of the things I left at home is my connector thing that'll allow me to move my pictures from my camera to my laptop. -.- x4

Luckily, someone else here has a canon and is willing to let me use her adapter thing... so maybe it's just -.-  x3.5 LoLz

Maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow.

Went to the U.S. Embassy today to get my ID badge, and my subway pass, and a lot of information. It was almost too much to take in at once. It didn't really hit me that I was actually here until I had to take the subway home from the compound where I'll be working for the next 10 weeks. The subways are so much nicer, and apparently Japanese people who take the subway home don't talk at all, and it's more like a winding down time and they fall asleep or they kind of just sit there, so when 11 Americans got on the subway, it was kind of hard for all of us to be completely silent. We made a good effort, and it wasn't too bad, so that was nice. The subways are much cleaner, and the crowd size just reminds me of SF Muni, but then again we didn't ride it during the rush, which might be worse. Apparently there are some perverted Japanese men out there that would cop a feel during rush time, so as a result there are female only cars during specific rush hour times. Go figure.

Luckily, we have access to the commissary at the compound, which is like a grocery store that carries American products and what not, and we even get a store credit for $200 to buy food. So we stocked up on a bit of breakfast/lunch foods for the next couple of days. That $200 will help out quite a bit.

Had meetings, talked about expectations, logistical stuff for the next 10 weeks, started planning stuff out, and tomorrow I guess we're going to start preparing and setting up for the kids, so that'll be exciting.

Ok, it's past midnight, and I should probably try to get to bed... so hopefully there will be more exciting posts and pictures next time!

-SHY (tee-hee I just realized it spells out "shy" something I'm totally not ^.^)