Friday, May 8, 2009

Im so drink!



Awesome first day. We started off the day with a trip to bagel and bagel, and I had a bagel with honey and cream cheese. It was a strange combination but it ended up being really good. After that we had our welcome lunch at Meiji University withe some of the faculty there. They had phenomenal food there. They started off with salad, raw salmon, and curry puffs. After that they kept bringing out all different kinds of fried chicken, spicy noodles, and chicken meatballs. They also had hot dogs with egg salad and mustard, which sounds disgusting, but was actually really really good. After the luncheon we were able to meet some of the Japanese students. They were all incredibly nice and cool people. After the greeting we took a tour of the library which was enormous. After that we went to a Yomoiuri Giants game, which was one of the things I was really excited to do here, and Tom Hanks was there! It was at the Tokyo dome, I don't think I've seen a bigger stadium in my life. It was huge. We got tickets last minutes and it was only 1,500 yen, which is about 15 dollars. The seats were in the nose bleeds, but it was still an awesome time. The whole group went, as well as a few of the Japanese students. I talked to two of the students, Ryohei  and Daisuke for the majority of the game. After the game was over we went back to the hotel for a little, and then went to a bar that was close to the hotel. A group of about 21 of us went including Japanese students. It cost 2100 yen and it was all you could eat and drink. They had shrimp(which was really good, but still had eyes), fried chicken neck(also sounds gross but was awesome), edamame, and the incredible pizza. The white Russians in Japan are amazing, and I also had sake for the first time. After that we all went back and crashed. Jet lag is still running its course. We are going to the imperial palace today, and then have the night free. That's all for now

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