The internet finally cut out yesterday, so my access here will be sporadic at best. Still, I did manage to find an internet cafe within the half hour biking radius, so I’m a lot better off than I might have been. I’ll post again when I’m back online.
The whole way back to my apartment from the internet cafe to my apartment last night, I was berating myself. I can’t believe that I forgot to mention the earthquake! It’s lost a lot of freshness in the day since then, but the short of it is that while I was asleep the night before [...]
The bulk of my day today was spent, lost, in Narita. For those people who have looked at coming to Japan, Narita is a familiar word. It is, in fact, the town containing the airport with the most flights to and from Japan; the airport is also called Narita. I went there this morning with [...]
I arrived in Japan yesterday morning, lugged 140 pounds of luggage to the guest house where I’ll be for the next two weeks, and then spent most of the rest of the day trying to stay awake, as I had been up for 40 hours when I arrived at 9am. I finally failed around 7:30pm. [...]