Arival

Wow, that was an awsome trip. I met another JCMU student at Kinross as I was bordinng the plane and so that made the time pass more quickly in Detroit for the 8 hours I was stuck there. His name is Steve, but his flight was to Osaka, not Nagoya with me. so he left an hour earlier than me. I sat and waited for my flight and found two other JCMU students and talked with them for a bit untill getting on the plane. I had a nice isle seat, with nobody in the seat next to me, so the fight was really nice. I fell asleep somewhere over Canada and woke up someplace over Japan, an hour away from Nagoya. I was very lucky there.

After getting into the airport, Nagoya is just awsome! I walked up right to the immigration desk, got in without any problems. The guy seemed impressed that I spoke Japanese, accually. I got m lugage easy in the next area, and walked through the inspection without them even opening my bags, that was a new experiance too. I met up with some other JCMU people there too, and we all traveled together in a pack form train to train and got to the JCMU center without too many issues really.

We took three trains, the last of which was a bullet train, AKA Shinkansen. There wasn't room for our bags so we packed them around the door and behind the last rows of seats in the car and stuff, and not toolong after we left, the fell out into the door blocking anyone from getting on or off...... so I rushed back and sorted everything out and kinda piled stuff up infront of the door that wasn't being used, untill I was informed that the patform for the next station was on that side next..... Luckily the next stop was ours and it wasn't a problem.

While standing with the luggage I talked to some random Japanese guy and stuff, He was interesting. He was learnign spanish for his job and went to Mexico often.

After getting off the train, we found out that this station has no elevator or escalator, since it is a small town, and so all of our heavy lugage would have to be carried about three stories up, then back down to get off the platform and to the street. That was the first time I was thankfull of the 50lbs limit on lugage.

We took taxis to the center, and I talked with the driver, another interesting guy for no reason at all.

The Japan Center for Michigan Universities is really nice, I'll take pictures later, but the dorms are awsome. Each dorm has two people assigned to them, with private bedrooms and a common area / kitchen. Each room has a shower as well, which is a huge plus and basicly everything we need to get by.

I met my roomate, Steve High from Penn state, and hes a really cool guy, we've quite simalar honestly.

Thats my story for now, I've got a lot of studing to do for my test tomarrow, so I'll post again soon!