Tuesday we had a scavenger hunt through Tokyo for four hours.  It was really fun because we were in our little groups instead of the whole bunch of us.  My group is my friend Emily, a Chinese guy named Clark, a Korean girl named Joanne, and two other guys named Tom and Saad.  Saad went back to his dorm because he was feeling "ill" but he didn't ( Read more... )

Today, I figured out that I had severe culture shock. I was reading the program orientation booklet and I came across the symptoms of culture shock. There were a lot of different symptoms, and I suppose it's different for everyone. It said that some of them were excessive sleeping (check,) weepiness (check,) wanting to withdraw (check,) etc. When i ( Read more... )

Okay, well everyone; here I am.  Tokyo ^^ Yay.  Finally?  Well the plane ride was long enough.  My ears hurt really badly the whole time we were going into the landing too.  One of my ears hasn't popped back yet either so it kind of feels like I have water in it.  Quite annoying.  Taking off and landing was really fun, like Katie and my dad said it ( Read more... )