I actually got a decent nights sleep last night for the first time in ages. Got up at 7, had breakfast and went for a walk with Mrs Hutchinson and the people that had to get money out, but we got sooo lost trying to find the 7-11 because Japanese maps don’t include all the streets and stuff like that, if they aren’t proud of it… its not on their maps. Makes it soo hard to find anything. I ended up asking a police man where it was and he got us to one … but it wasn’t the one that we had intended on going to so we got lost again trying to get back to our hotel… smart chickens we are. We asked a lot of people for directions… but the other issue with the general public here is that even if they have no idea they will tell you something anyway coz they want to seem helpful. Gah don’t they realise that telling us they don’t know would be more helpful.
Once we finially got back to our Hotel we had a short time to go shopping in the totally awesome shopping street, I brough some more pressies for people and after that time was up Mr Ishiyama was ready and waiting to take us to Nichidai. We were all presented with 2000 yen (about $20 AU at the time) worth of their school travel cards or use on the trains and some local busses. We then had several trains to catch to get to nichidai, which proved slightly intresting with all our suitcases… at least it wasn’t peak hour on the trains.
Once at Nichidai we had a short break in the common room of the dorm and were given our schedule for while we are here. We they went on the trains again and went to Mejijingu shrine (a huge shrine in the middle of the city, where I went on Thursday the 8th of my first Japan trip… probs a couple of better photos there)
From there we went to Harajuku, one of the main teenage shopping street, not the one I went to last time, Harajuku is a suburb so to say rather than a street name which is what I had thought. This particular street wasn’t as intresting as where we went last trip, and againt he map we had was very much not to scale and left things off. James and I had lunch at maccas where I got a happy set (meal) with a PDA hello kitty toy. .... not that much diffrent from our maccas are they?
After shopping for a while at Harajuku we traveld back to Nichidai for our welcome party.
After our welcome party we chose our pairs from rooms and then our rooms were assigmned, I am in room 103 with rosie. Tomorrow night we will be doing a one night home stay with our school buddie, so I will get to meet harukas family ( haruka was the student that we hosted earlier this year) and see her house. I can’t wait!
For dinner tonight we had rice, Chicken, and spaghetti bolognaise
The bathrooms here are very big, it has ten showers and a nice sized bath. Rosie and I are still the only 2 that are doing the communal bath thing properly, everyone else is still wearing togs. ….why the heck would you come to Japan if you are going to so blatantly refuses to try their customs and traditions out.
Once we finially got back to our Hotel we had a short time to go shopping in the totally awesome shopping street, I brough some more pressies for people and after that time was up Mr Ishiyama was ready and waiting to take us to Nichidai. We were all presented with 2000 yen (about $20 AU at the time) worth of their school travel cards or use on the trains and some local busses. We then had several trains to catch to get to nichidai, which proved slightly intresting with all our suitcases… at least it wasn’t peak hour on the trains.
Once at Nichidai we had a short break in the common room of the dorm and were given our schedule for while we are here. We they went on the trains again and went to Mejijingu shrine (a huge shrine in the middle of the city, where I went on Thursday the 8th of my first Japan trip… probs a couple of better photos there)
From there we went to Harajuku, one of the main teenage shopping street, not the one I went to last time, Harajuku is a suburb so to say rather than a street name which is what I had thought. This particular street wasn’t as intresting as where we went last trip, and againt he map we had was very much not to scale and left things off. James and I had lunch at maccas where I got a happy set (meal) with a PDA hello kitty toy. .... not that much diffrent from our maccas are they?
After shopping for a while at Harajuku we traveld back to Nichidai for our welcome party.
After our welcome party we chose our pairs from rooms and then our rooms were assigmned, I am in room 103 with rosie. Tomorrow night we will be doing a one night home stay with our school buddie, so I will get to meet harukas family ( haruka was the student that we hosted earlier this year) and see her house. I can’t wait!
For dinner tonight we had rice, Chicken, and spaghetti bolognaise
The bathrooms here are very big, it has ten showers and a nice sized bath. Rosie and I are still the only 2 that are doing the communal bath thing properly, everyone else is still wearing togs. ….why the heck would you come to Japan if you are going to so blatantly refuses to try their customs and traditions out.
the bathrooms at nichidai... you can see the bath in the reflection... im sorry that i dont have a better photo, but it was a difficult place to photograph.
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