We finally arrived: Yesterday

So we are finally in Japan.
Boy was that a long trip.
The 3 hour wait time.
The 13 hour plane trip.
I don't think I want to do that again.
The plane food was processed.
They played, Enchanted which I watched.
The Pride and Prejudice, could not understand that at all.
And that Denzel washington movie about him having a group of kids debating. "Debaters"

We got to Japan at exactly 6:15pm. Basically, having no sleep at all since it was always sunny outside. I was following Toronto Time. There is a 13 hour difference with Toronto time.
So night for you is Morning time for me.

When we got here, our Friend Andrew/Reno was already waiting for us outside the Customs.
Thank god since we don't know where the hell we were and I couldn't rely on Junior with his Japanese. I got screened one more time before being released. Basic stuff like what am I doing here and stuff. The custom guy showed me a picture of WEED. Asking me, if I have that in the luggage. I said "ummm no" and then I looked at Junior and started laughing.

Note: Junior (my trip buddy) got delayed many times in screening processes. He always blamed it in being black . I just agreed with him since it was really weird. He took longer than me.
Always making jokes, like "They just let you through, while I get a security person besides me.

When we met up with Reno, we rented a cellphone.
In the airport, you can rent cellphones for 8 days (that's how many days, we are staying).
Crazy cheap too. I cannot use it for Long Distance though, too expensive there. Email seems to be cheap (.20 cents). It wasn't a crappy phone too. Really high tech end device.

OK a First Impression.
Everybody rides a bike, Scooters too. I mean so many.
All the teenagers or people my age that are male seems to have vested summer jackets.
I mean all that I saw. The girls seems to like long skirts. I saw that alot. The weather is nice, really like Toronto weather.

We didn't really do much that night.
We just went to a restaurant.
We had alot of Finger Food.
Black people are a commodity here in Japan.
Everybody kept looking at him. I seem to blend in fine. LOL
I told Junior, I should have been charging them for looking.
It was really funny when we were eating an old dude just stopped in front of us.
Then looks at me and looks at Junior. He then did a Thumb Up sign. LOL

The food was great. The waitresses did not want TIP.
It's not customary to give those out.
After that, we walked back to his house and just crashed for the night.
We are Going to Kyoto today so I will post pictures later.

Russell

Today's Learned words (I don't know if I spelled this correctly):
Sumimase -Excuse me
Goudaimas - Thank you if they bring you food
Arigato - Thank you for anything I guess