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Konnichiwa!!!<br />FINALLY!!! I have started my blog like I promised!!! Now instead of me writing the same thing 100 times or sending out a mass email (because I know everyone loves those impersonal things), I have this blog where I can update everyone on what is going on in Japan. I have been here officially for a month. It seems like forever and yet not so long at the same time. I start teaching this week. All of August the students are on break, yet I still have to go to school and sit there...doing nothing. I have also had many orientations on living in Japan (ie how to avoid cockroaches and tatami bugs) and I got to connect with many of th 130 JETs in Hiroshima Ken. There have also been some interesting differences in food, traditions, and getting lost here and there. It has been a physical and mental roller coaster the past month. In general I am FINALLY settling in and really enjoying my time. It is starting to feel a little like home. So, I will do a brief recap of what has happened.<br />

Leaving on a JET Plane

Casey Lary
2006-02-20 15:44:34

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Konnichiwa!!!
FINALLY!!! I have started my blog like I promised!!! Now instead of me writing the same thing 100 times or sending out a mass email (because I know everyone loves those impersonal things), I have this blog where I can update everyone on what is going on in Japan. I have been here officially for a month. It seems like forever and yet not so long at the same time. I start teaching this week. All of August the students are on break, yet I still have to go to school and sit there...doing nothing. I have also had many orientations on living in Japan (ie how to avoid cockroaches and tatami bugs) and I got to connect with many of th 130 JETs in Hiroshima Ken. There have also been some interesting differences in food, traditions, and getting lost here and there. It has been a physical and mental roller coaster the past month. In general I am FINALLY settling in and really enjoying my time. It is starting to feel a little like home. So, I will do a brief recap of what has happened.

July 30, 100+ JETs left SF for Tokyo to join the other 1,000 new JETs
Jason, me and Jeff. Watch out Japan, here we come....that would be coming in from all over the world. We said our good byes to the loved ones and off we went.

TOKYO
Sunday afternoon we arrived in Tokyo. All of us were in our semi-warm clothes that were suitable for SF. The moment we stepped off the plane i felt like someone threw bucket of water on me (okay thats exaggerating, a little). The humidity was unbearable when we got off the airplane. I felt like I was on the east coast. After a long customs line, Jason almost losing his ipod and glasses, a LONG line of current JETs navigating us through the airport, we got on the buses headed to the Keio Plaza. That night a group of us decided to hit up the town. We only had 3 days in Tokyo and we wanted to make the best of it. We went into the metro station and wanted to go to the Shibuya district. ...

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