Day 1.5
Onboard VS900, surrounded by Japanese people, saying 男根 「だんこん」at every oppurtunity, the slow realisation that we were going.to.Japan started to hit, it was all very exciting.
Because I'm an absolute legend, I got given a first-class meal, サムーさん ＆ トムーさん had to make-do with the peasant food.
Big smiles.
Then we started to sleep, トムーさん watched Black Swan, サムーさん got to level 81 on tetris and I beat the whole plane at the trivia game.
Winning!
The lights came on, we roused our bleary-eyed, greasy-haired selves and began to land at Tokyo Narita, local time 0930 on Saturday June 11th.
After a somewhat sweaty trip through Narita, being fingerprinted and photographed, it was onto the bus to Tokyo Haneda, after our first purchase, mine had the vitamin C of 70 lemons, always nice to know.
The bus to Tokyo Haneda was rather uneventful, but we did see Disney Land and many baseball stadia.
Then we arrived at Tokyo Haneda.
During lengthy sweaty queueing, we saw a sumo wrestler. An actual sumo wrestler! Sadly I do not have a photo of him as he was rather large and may have hit me or shoved me enthusiastically, whatever it is they do.
There was also a fat woman crying because her dogs had to go in the hold. It was funny because she was so fat.
We met a very happy man in a shop where we saw our first weird Japanese food: green tea and white chocolate bagel. Little did we know that this would be just the tip of the iceberg.
After watching the same advert of a sweaty old person on the phone for a few hours, we boarded JAL1685 to Okayama.
Not too much to say about this flight, we slept for its entirity, but we did get all the announcements in Engligh purely for our ignorant selves.
After landing in Okayama, just a quick baggage collection separated us from our taxi to Kawasaki Medical University, or so we thought. Then we met rockstar-sensei and gaylord-sensei who would be accompanying us for the journey, so very nice of them.
About an hour in the taxi, feeling just a teeny bit exhausted, sweaty and generally quite nasty was all it took to get us to our accomodation. Turns out we're living where the doctors live, but they've been kicked out of our floor so we can tear up the joint.
More people came to greet us: the ESS [English Speaking Society], does what it says on the tin - ゆご、よこ ＆ きょこ, who showed us such technicalities as how to turn the gas off and operate the air conditioning.
However, they neglected to explain the kettle (explanation/rant coming soon).
Not much time passed, then the one&only おつきーsensei arrived in his passion wagon to take us out for dinner. Turned out it was at a place called Da Bra, funny name #1 of the trip.
He then took us to the supermarket and bought us milk and whatnot out of his own cash, what a lovely man. He also gave トムーさん his microwave from home, awww.
Then followed the best and most-deserved sleep of my life, total awake time: 40hours, screw you timezones!
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