(this post is by Andrew, Nathan’s brother)
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been almost a week since we arrived in Japan. So much has happened already, and here in this blog I’m going to chronicle it.
We’d been talking about making this trip forever, and now it’s finally happening. It’s almost too exciting to handle. We’re going to be living in Japan for two months. Nathan has been to Japan several times before, but only for a couple of weeks at a time. And this is my first ever time. Actually it’s my first time out of the country, not counting Canada (which you never should; it’s just USA’s hat.)
We’ve spent the last week just figuring out how not to die, (where to get food, that sort of thing) and Tokyo’s confounding garbage disposing laws.
Seriously, just look at this. They also sent a 30 page instruction document,
- but it’s all in Japanese using some particularly violent kanji
Some interesting things that have happened thus far:
While looking at a map trying to figure out how to get to the lease office, and we weren’t standing there 2 minutes before a stranger came up and helped us find our way there. It was way out of her way, but she was very insistent on leading us there. It was a strange experience, coming from the USA, especially since the last state we were in was New Jersey (oh snap!)
We ate teriyaki burgers at McDonald’s.
We heard shouting and tumbling that we thought was our upstairs neighbors, but it turned out we are right next door to some kind of acrobatic gym with people tumbling all day and into the night. Fun fun fun!
That’s it for now. The next week and on will be much more interesting, and I will be posting regularly. Please look forward to our stories from Japan.
