Hi everyone!
Im here in Mizonokuchi, the town I live in. I am in an Internet cafe right now that is by the train station. I have pictures and videos to send you, but I havent been able to gather them all up and put them on my USB drive.
The day I got here we rode the train for 2 hrs from the airport. I was so tired, I went to bed at 8pm after eating dinner at a small ramen shop in our small town. Sunday I went to Harajuku and Shinjuku to eat, shop, and find out where our school was. At Harajuku we visited a shrine, saw a Snoopy town and a claires, and ate at another ramen shop. Everything here is $8-$10! Im kind of worried about money, especially since we dont have a refridgerator at our dorm so making our own lunch and dinner would be very difficult. Today we went to school and took the placement exam. We had listening and writing. For some reason I got a 28/200 for the writing!! Other people in my level got 75-100s….The test was all fill in the blank and I can:t understand fill-in-the-blank, even in English. i tried explaining this, but I don]t know what is going to happen. i dont want to come all the way here and take level 1!!! Well see…. Im really worried and wanted to cry!
We rode the train this morning and it was SO CROWDED! I saw a lot of people get stuck in doors! It was better when we went out later, but the train is a little expensive. I think Ive already spent $100 in just transportation and food. The only thing I bought was an umbrella when it started raining when I was out. Today I ate at a little Curry/Udon place by school with one other person I know and then two other people came in that live in our dorm [7american people live with me in Mizonokuchi]. then we went to the post office to try to get an alien registration card so we can get a cell phone and then we had to go to kawasaki (30 min away) and that was wrong! the place we really had to go to was right next to our dorm! The post office just told us the wrong information. and by the time we got back to the right place, it was closed. oh well, at least we got to get used to the train system.
we went to harajuku again today and then saw the rest of our dorm people there. how weird is that?! japan is such a big place! I dont have internet for 2 weeks here and I dont have a cell phone because I dont have Alien registration #, so the only way I can contact you is with my phone card that I bought here in Japan and through this email.
The keyboard here is hard to push and is very small, so from now on, Im going to type my emails ahead of time and transfer them here.
A more detailed email is to come soon, probably tomorrow! This is just a quick hi!
Love,
Nikki
