So we arrived at Narita airport around 4pm on 7/25/2010. This wasn't so bad considering our flight was scheduled for 3:35pm and we didn't take off from Chicago until nearly an hour and a half after our scheduled departure time. The flight wasn't too bad and I watched two movies and then slept...haha, nothing new there. I have an ability to sleep anytime and anywhere...except now. It's 4am here and I am wide awake! My roommates in the hotel are sleeping right now and I couldn't sleep much more for now, so I'm updating this.
Customs and Immigration went smoothly. And no luggage lost at the airport! Yes!! We were all ushered through quickly with JET volunteers helping us find our way and made it on to buses to take us to our hotel. On the bus were current JETs volunteering to help out and there they gave information about orientation and the like. We finally arrived at the hotel around 6:45pm. It was about an hour and a half bus ride from Narita airport. Not too bad considering Tokyo traffic can get pretty bad.
Later, I met up with some other JETs and we went to go find some food. We went to an Izakaya (appetizer bar/restaurant) and ate some random assortments of food which was good. After that, we thought about karaoke but we were all just too tired to actually go somewhere to do that. I think JET schedules it this way on purpose to prevent people from going out and making bad life decisions before orientation even starts...:) haha. well good thinking on their part. We all walked around a little bit and kind of hung out. Then we got back to the hotel around 10 and I was asleep at 11pm.
We have our 1st set of orientation things tomorrow morning (7/26) and will get to meet a whole bunch of other people as well!
Well, I guess that's all for now and I'll keep posting and updating as we go along.
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