I'M HERE!!!!!

So I've finally made it. The flight was pretty horrible, I didn't sleep at all during the journey. By the time I made it to Narita it was pretty hard to stay awake. I had no problems going through immigration or customs. Easily switched what USD I had into Yen and bought a bus ticket to Kofu and had to wait an hour for it to arrive.

While I was waiting two police officers came up to me and asked me if I spoke any of their language in Japanese. I knew what they were saying and I could have actually responded in Japanese, but I figured had they thought I spoke any at all they would start using vocab I haven't picked up at all so I told them I didn't know any. I had to show them my passport and tell them where I was staying and why I was here, but they were very nice and thanked me for my cooperation and went on their way to stop random foreigners elsewhere.

The bus arrived shortly thereafter and I finally started falling asleep during the bus ride, but I knew I had to try and stay awake so I wouldn't miss my station. In the end it didn't matter because I actually got off at the wrong station, it was only one station early and it wasn't that far off from my final destination but it did probably add about $10 to my taxi ride to the dorm.

Which leads me to my other piece of bad/weird luck, there's only one Japanese person affiliated with the university I'm attending that knows I was coming in a little sooner than when I'm supposed to move into the dorms (Sept 26th), so I crashed with my friend Steve who's been here for six months already before leaving for Tokyo today. However, you're not supposed to have guests stay with you in your dorm room, so I'm about to sneak out in a few to make it look like I'm just arriving in order to not get Steve in any kind of trouble. So here's the bad luck part, one of the main teachers I'll be dealing with ironically saw Steve as we were getting out of the Taxi at the dorm and now knows I'm here. Hopefully it won't be such a huge deal, especially considering I'm only having to do this twice, one of which will be the day before I move in but maybe they'll let me move in a day early.

That's it for this blog, I'll try to make things a little more truncated from here on out. Sorry there aren't any pics yet there was a Typhoon when I flew in and it gets dark here at 6 PM so there wasn't anything really cool I could do with my camera. I'm leaving for Tokyo in just a few hours so hopefully I'll be updating later tonight!