Well after almost 24 hours of continuous travel Amy and I arrived in Japan last night wihtout too many bangs and bruises - we even managed to find our hotel in Fukuoka without too many complications (even though the cab driver didn't speak a word of English).
Note: If you ever visit Japan and need to take a cab, have your destination address written in Japanese otherwise you probably won't get to where you want to go!
So this morning we dragged our luggage (the bags we didn't ship from the airport) a few blocks to the subway to try and find our way downtown to pick up our arrival packages and apartment keys from the Nova office... Anyone who knows us won't be surprised to hear that we ended up walking in the entirely direction away from Nova and only about half an hour later did we finally manged to find two guys who helped us find the building. ...This detour wouldn't have been so bad had we not still been carrying all our bags! I've never been more in need of a massage in all my life!!!
Skip forward a few hours and Amy and I have gone our separate ways. She's in Oita on the mid-north-eastern coast of Kyushu and I'm in my temporary location in Kitakyushu which is about 120 km north-east of her. My roommate has yet to make an appearance but on the brightside my futon and bedding was delivered about an hour ago :)
...My luggage from the airport however is another story. As luck would have it they attempted to deliver it before I arrived here and I was left with what I can only assume to be a missed-delivery slip in my mailbox (I *assume* because it's entirely in Japanese). My attempt to call them to locate my bags was a miserable failure because the time on my payphone call ran out before the women on the other end could find someone who spoke English... I'll try again tomorrow during the day when I can hopefully find someone to help me.
It's about 7:00 PM here right now and I'm all alone in Japan and wondering what to do for dinner (that's 5:00 AM for those of you back in Ontario). I noitced a pizza place around the corner earlier during my attempt at using the payphone so that might be a good option, other than that I'm surrounded by car dealerships and parts stores - good times haha. There's a bunch of anime (minus English subtitles) on TV so that might turn out to be my only form of entertainment for the next little while... Right now there's a cheerleading pig and fox... I have no idea what's going on? Oh yeah and there's an Afro-Samurai look-alike who has gold teeth... yeah...
Alright well I dunno if anybody is actually still reading this, but if you are I'm more entertaining than I thought haha. I'll make another post in a few days with an update on my plights in Japan. I still have to figure out how to open a bank account, get a cellphone, and register with the city for my alien registration card. Oh yeah and locate my luggage and get it re-delivered!
Sayonara :)
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