Is this country really this easy or is it just me?
First day lowdown.
Right now it's 4:30pm and I'm sitting in my tiny but cute as hell hotelroom at Shinjuku Park Hotel watching some really dumb anime on Tokyo MX. So far I've only had to use English when booking this room, everything else I managed in Japanese. Go me!
It has been an eventful yet strangely boring 48 hours. I initially had two hours at Helsinki that then turned into three hours because some Turkish guy got lost or something, but I met Otto Sinisalo and chatted with him about the future of anime and manga fandom in Finland. One speaker booked for Not-a-con-con!!!!!
Because the plane was so late, my transfer at Atatürk was a mess. I had 15 minutes between planes but somehow they even got my suitcase on board. Amazing. How is it possible that at Heathow you need 3 hours if you want to get you suitcase home, but at Atatürk they manage it in 15 minutes?
The secon plane was the most high tech motherfucking airbus I have ever seen. Even economy class seats had their own entertainment centre, but mine, of course, wasn't working. I asked five flight attendants to fix it but they didn't know how. I kept pushing random buttons and finally, 10 minutes before landing, it started rebooting itself and I cracked up laughing when I noticed it was using Red Hat. After that it was all fun and games for ten minutes.
Apparently I was the only passanger on board that wasn't given this super special awesome form to fill out, but I met a really nice dutch girl named Barb who helped me with everything. She also told me that when she came to Japan for the first time four years ago her Japanese was JLPT3 as well and that I would be fine. AFter that everything went smoothly, The more I spoke Japanese the more confident I got. I'm still crap as fuck but I can manage everyday stuff almost fine:D
The train trip from Narita was the most adorable thing ever! Well, apart from the guy sitting next to me reading a porn mag. The view was adorable, the houses here are so cute with their curving roofs and ricefields. And there's laundry hung to dry everywhere. Literally, everywhere. But it was all so cute! I was half expecting Totoro to jump up from behind a tree the whole time.
Since my planes were all late, I didn't make it to Shinjuku Station on time to meet Eveliina. But I found a cute hotel called Shinjuku Park Hotel and got a room with free internet and even an adapter for finnish plugs for 8400yen. Now I'm dying for a shower and food....
later babes!
Right now it's 4:30pm and I'm sitting in my tiny but cute as hell hotelroom at Shinjuku Park Hotel watching some really dumb anime on Tokyo MX. So far I've only had to use English when booking this room, everything else I managed in Japanese. Go me!
It has been an eventful yet strangely boring 48 hours. I initially had two hours at Helsinki that then turned into three hours because some Turkish guy got lost or something, but I met Otto Sinisalo and chatted with him about the future of anime and manga fandom in Finland. One speaker booked for Not-a-con-con!!!!!
Because the plane was so late, my transfer at Atatürk was a mess. I had 15 minutes between planes but somehow they even got my suitcase on board. Amazing. How is it possible that at Heathow you need 3 hours if you want to get you suitcase home, but at Atatürk they manage it in 15 minutes?
The secon plane was the most high tech motherfucking airbus I have ever seen. Even economy class seats had their own entertainment centre, but mine, of course, wasn't working. I asked five flight attendants to fix it but they didn't know how. I kept pushing random buttons and finally, 10 minutes before landing, it started rebooting itself and I cracked up laughing when I noticed it was using Red Hat. After that it was all fun and games for ten minutes.
Apparently I was the only passanger on board that wasn't given this super special awesome form to fill out, but I met a really nice dutch girl named Barb who helped me with everything. She also told me that when she came to Japan for the first time four years ago her Japanese was JLPT3 as well and that I would be fine. AFter that everything went smoothly, The more I spoke Japanese the more confident I got. I'm still crap as fuck but I can manage everyday stuff almost fine:D
The train trip from Narita was the most adorable thing ever! Well, apart from the guy sitting next to me reading a porn mag. The view was adorable, the houses here are so cute with their curving roofs and ricefields. And there's laundry hung to dry everywhere. Literally, everywhere. But it was all so cute! I was half expecting Totoro to jump up from behind a tree the whole time.
Since my planes were all late, I didn't make it to Shinjuku Station on time to meet Eveliina. But I found a cute hotel called Shinjuku Park Hotel and got a room with free internet and even an adapter for finnish plugs for 8400yen. Now I'm dying for a shower and food....
later babes!