Tokyo Orientation!

Alright!
So, I finally got more than 5 minutes online, so I can update my blog!
Saturday's flight was not that bad at all. I had good seats near fun people, and the 13 hour flight went by really quickly. They have these touch-screen things in front of every seat, so you got to choose what you watch, including TV shows, a meditation thing, movies, etc. I watched Horton hears a Who, Definitely Maybe and most of Spiderwick chronicles, as well as an ep of the Simpsons and Boston Legal. the rest of the time was speaking loudly to the people around me and attempting to sleep. There was this weird hypnosis/relaxation channel thing that was supposed to make you fall asleep. It worked, but didn't last long. I think the whole flight I slept maybe an hour.
After that, we arrived in the humid airport and took a bus to Tokyo. Then in Tokyo we had the rest of the day (by that time is was 5pm local time) to do whatever we wanted. We went to the city and ate (restaurants are cheap!) and then went to sleep. I didnt sleep much that night because I woke up with a stomach ache, and the next morning started bright and early with a bunch of speeches and I didn't pay any attention to much of it. Then there was a very vegetarian lunch (meat-shaped tofu!) and then workshops in the afternoon. I meant to go to them, but I slept through them. That night there was a prefecture outing, and I couldnt find mine (there are 2 Tokyo JETs, and I didnt know where we were meeting) so I went to my friends' prefecture thing, Kareoke, and we sang for 2 hours. It was a lot of fun! Then we came back for more sleep.
Yesterday is much of a blur. There was a really awesome Engrish speech by a Japanese guy. He was just speaking random sentences. Some of my favourites include: "Speaking in public makes my hair stand on end, so I applied a lot of mousse this morning", "The sultry weather made me wake up this morning sweating. I feel as tight as jeans from the dryer" and "I'd rather be crossing the river Jordan right now". After his speech there was a panel...Toronto had a great orientation, so a lot of this weekend's information was repetitive and redundant. A few friends skipped the last session and went to a mall to find a hair-dryer, but they didn't have one! This place was HUGE, and had everything...EVERYTHING, except a hair dryer. Then we went into an electronics store, where we finally found one (after much translation issues), and we came back to the hotel (which is beautiful, by the way) to go to a very dry presentation at the Canadian Embassy. It was long and boring, but we got some useful things from it (maps and things) and we basically crashed when we got back.

Breakfasts here are amazing! There are fruits and potatoes and eggs and meat. It's really tasty!

Let me tell you about toilet seats. The toilet seats here are heated (which SUCKS in the summer, but Im sure are great in the winter) and there are buttons that will spray very hot water into your underparts, which is startling (but whatever you do, don't stand up!) and some have a button that makes a flushing sound to hide the unmentionable sounds you might make while doing your business.a

What else? Tokyo isn't as busy as I thought it would be. Mind you, we're not in the main area. Language isn't a problem yet, but I haven't gone far out of the hotel. I don't think the whole thing has hit me yet, either. I'm really mostly extremely tired and jetlagged. This morning I woke up at 4am, unable to fall back asleep. It's currently 8:30, and I'm waiting for 10:00 to meet up with my prefecture people to start my adventure. I don't know when I will have internet again.

I think that's all to report for now. I'm having fun and meeting a lot of people. It's fun and I hope I can visit everyone on my list!! It seems everyone wants to visit my toxic volcanic island, and I am more than happy to host them! Assuming that's allowed :P

I suppose that's all to report for now!
Carla Out!