WELCOME TO JAPAN

From last year, the things that we constantly heard from the students was "It was so HOT in Japan". They told us to take lots of summer clothes and lots and lots of sun cream. However, what we experience when we first landed in Japan was totally different to what we we told. Getting of the plane, it was not as bad as we thought it would. There was a bit of humidity but it was not that hot. Thanks to Mr Ali and his limited Wifi, I called my family and let them know that I had safely reached Japan. 

Getting out of the airport is where the difficulty began. The time we got out of the airport, it was rush hour time. This meant that the trains and the buses were going to be really packed. Once out of the airport, we heard to the train station as from Haneda we headed towards Shinjuku which was one of the busiest places in Tokyo. On the train, we were getting pushed and pulled as we constantly had to keep saying "gomenasai"(sorry) to everyone we would push. Since I was carrying my 22kg luggage, it made things a lot more difficult. Arriving at Shinjuku, we had our breakfast/lunch which was udon. It was actually nice as it was one of the first Japanese food that we had. Following from that we walked for hours until we met one of my Ali's colleague. We took an hour rest and I am grateful that we did because we were all really tired.  Following from our rest we headed to another train station to make our way to Mr Ali's hotel. Thankfully, this train that we took was not that crowed which meant that we were not getting pushed. At Mr Ali's hotel, we freshen us and had showers so that we look somewhat presentable when we meet our buddies and our host families.

The time had finally come where we had to catch the train to Akio-Ishida, where Ono sensei (a English teacher at Jishukan) was waiting for us. We were now finally able to meet our buddies whom we have been talking to for the past 9 weeks. 
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