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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

It Begins

I am officially a registered Alien in Japan!  Yeay!  Now I can get a phone, open a bank account, find part time work and get health insurance for $20/mo.  Yes, you read that right.  $20/mo!

Also today I start orientation!  I hope it's in English...they have school on Saturdays here too.  But they have sssooooo many holidays we don't! 

Tomorrow I'm meeting up with the French girl I met in the hostel to go to hanami - the sakura flower blooming festival!  I have wanted to see this for years but flights are marked up dramatically during the flower season; it's a huge tourist attraction.  But it's not just about the flowers.  Apparently it's just an excuse for business men to get raucously drunk!  If you've never seen a guy in a suit trying to lean against his equally inebriated colleague, shouting obscenities and giggling, it's a sight to behold!

HA!  Speaking of drunks, I was walking through the Shinjuku train station at night and there was a drunk dude jabbering with his pants around his ankles, just hanging out in his boxers.  Seriously.  HILARIOUS!

Off I go to get some socks and underoos.  And pants.  And food.

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