Well the first 2 days in Tokyo are almost over. Tomorrow were going to Tsukiji Fish Market at 5:30 in the morning, its 11:00pm here right now so this will be a quick blog. First impressions: My Japanese skills have improved greatly. Not enough to make conversation, but at least I can ask basic questions now. Maybe that comes with growing up. The cost of living here is amazingly high as well. I've already spent over 100$ on basic stuff. Hopefully I'll be stingy later on, but when your spending 10$ on transportation a day at least it might be hard. Can't wait till the JR pass kicks in.
Yesterday was quite interesting. I got into Narita at 2:30, and proceeded to wait for Mung who was the last person to arrive for the next 2 hours. I kept my self busy finding out where he was landing though. It was my first taste of speaking Japanese in the country and man was it hard. I asked the people at the baggage claim if I could have it instead of waiting there. Mung and I took the Narita express train to Shinjyuku station, it was a hour long uneventful ride. I felt like the outlying area of Tokyo developed a little more sence 2005 when I was last here, but thats about it. The group left for dinner 5 min before we got to the Hostel so Mung and I took a crazy cab ride trying to catch up with them. We ended up finding Jeff at a train station and going to the restaurant. Dinner was uneventful. We met our new co-instructor Naomi there though.
Today was the same thing I did on the first day of Tokyo last time I went. Asakusa shrine, and Fuji TV. Nothing really changed, although I got a lot more pictures this time around. Mathais, Jen, Vanessa and I took a round about way home, went grocery shopping and finally made it back to the Yoyogi youth center. Then we went swimming. I'm out of shape. The swimmers here are way better than the ones in Korea. I really wish I brought my Speedo along. Anyhow thats 2 pools I've swam in that Olympians have swam in. This wasn't the Olympic Pool though. Were just staying in the old 1964 Olympic village. After swimming Mathais and I went to grab dinner. We walked into a place that looked good, sat down, read the menu and realized we were in a Korean Japanese restaurant. Kind of funny, kind of annoying, the food was good though so I'm not going to complain. Anyhow thats about it for today. I'm really excited to go to Tsukuji tomorrow.
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