Hi kids!
I'm glad to hear that you are enjoying my adventures. Sometimes I feel like I am just babbling but I have no one else to share all this with so I babble on line. It's cathartic. Anyway, this one will be brief because training starts in an hour. this time I left my place with over 2 hours to spare and found my training sight after only 15 minutes of wandering around (although it FELT like an hour because me feet HURT!!! I neglected to add that all that running around in the typhoon yesterday was done in HIGH HEALS!) So I have blisters on my blisters. And today, I am wearing brand new shoes so I have NEW blisters on my toes to match the ones on my heals from yesterday.
Anyway, enough about my crippling pain. After orientation yesterday, Nichole and I walked to an internet cafe where we ran into her roommate who has been here for 4 months and can speak pretty fluent Japanese. We decided to grab a bite to eat so we
wandered the streets of Shinjuku at night (a new experience for me). I don't think I told you that there is a section of Shijuku that is like Las Vegas where people stand outside all the casinos and yell stuff in Japanese to woo you into their casino. These buildings are several stories high (like maybe 10 stories or so) and they are very narrow with all these colorful signs and stuff. And not far from there is hooker alley...or something like that. Nichole's roommate, Laura, was telling me about it, warning me to stay away from those streets. I wonder how many
times I have already been down those streets in the day time and had no clue where I was. Good thing I had not been there at night by myself. So here I am in Japan and we have Italian for dinner. I have as of yet to have a real Japanese dinner. But Laura said she will take us some place cool for the authentic experience. I don't want to let my sister down! She is expecting me to be the pro on sushi when I return, So far, I have only become the pro on eggs, Doritos, and Snickers. And you'd think with all this walking that I would have shed a few pounds by now but NOOOOOOO, not me! I think I am getting a snickers-belly. They really are a satisfying treat.
Well, I need to head out here. I still want to tell you about orientation but that will have to wait. I'll just say that the first guy looked like a well-groomed Tom Greene with an Australian accent and a lisp; the second guy was a Japanese guy named Cookie with a British accent, the third presenter was just plain creepy and he whistled when he said his "s"'s. The final presenters were Australian women who could not figure out how to navigate PowerPoint. I'll tell that story later. OK, now I am really going. OH!!! And you can all breathe a sigh of relief...I finally had a hot shower...YIPPEEE! I feel like a new man!
Take care and write soon! Love Rachel
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