#1 Arrival

Well, this is like my first entry in this blog I guess.. where should I start? Hmm... Oh yeah, I'm alive! And happily I didn't had to pay any extra fees for overweight luggage. So I took the flight from Düsseldorf to Frankfurt (delayed by 40min) and, having met all the familiar faces from the previous VBT(preparation session), I departed towards Tôkyô. Seats were pretty cramped and all, making it absolutely impossible to sleep in a comfortable way. Me and two girls played NDS all the time, always passing around the 2 ones we had. I did try to sleep a bit 5 hours or so before landing, but failed. So, no sleep at all for me.

Landing went pretty smooth, as did the passport control. The moment I saw my bag had made it here safe as well I thought I'd thank God so fucking much would I be a christian. Then, meeting our YFU representatives, we waited at some row of seats, and, guess what, saw a japanese vending machine for the very first time in our life. And I'm not talking about any vending machine here, but a real GIE-DOU-HAHN-BAY-KEY, famous for selling almost every thing consumers demand, ranging from warm lunches to worn high school panties.

Nevertheless Narita was a hell of an airport, talking about actual temperature. I'll never forget the moment I stepped out and got caught be an almost summer-like breeze of chilling Japanese air. By the way, the weather here in Tôkyô is absolutely AWESOME. Almost like summer in Germany (don't even wanna imagine a real summer here). So we got onto that tourist bus and went to the Orisen (国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター - National Olympics Memorial Youth Center), moving through the real city of Tôkyô.

(bus lunch)

So many unforgettable views, all the buildings and skyscrapers.. well I'll upp some pics later. Although people asked me this a lot, I wasn't the least bit excited.. no, I don't mean excited in an eager way, but in a nervous. No idea why, everything around me seemed new, but not too unfamiliar. Can't really explain it.Orisen is a really big facility actually, didn't expect that.


There're a lot of opportunities to practice all kinds of sports, and of course they have their own &sleeping rooms and canteen. My and my Austrian room mate Thomas just ate supper there. Although my inner self denies it, I'm super jet-lagged. With almost 50kg of luggage. A bit tiredness, thirstiness and imagined earthquakes (actually a girl had them too). But only soft ones. Actually, I wonder how I could write so much without collapsing. They told us tomorrow's gonna be some kind of Kumon test to find out our Japanese skill level. Maybe I wrote too much after all, who's gonna read all that crap anyway? Gotta break off here, the tiredness is catching up... see ya later. PS.: I think I've found the same vending machine AkitaTom used on his Orientation, gonna upp some pics of that too.

(AkitaTom Vlog #4)