Part 4 - Are we Dead Yet?

Okay, so today was the first day of orientation. We met up and went over rules, who our advisers are, when we can have people over, and all of that. The lunch break was long and we kept meeting, leaving, then meeting again so it took forever for us to get a chance to wander off and do stuff again. But we did go over fire drills and used fire extinguishers to make sure we knew how. We shot them toward construction cones, only they were green.

After that, we went to the beach again because it was well into the 100s, apparently. Started up a game of beach volley ball, finally branching out of the hit it back and forth game on the water. A lot more people came too. Linda, Corallie, Simon, and Brice all came. They’re the French students. Robin, Brian, Mitch, Abdul, Christian, and Cayleen came. Megan from Canada came, as well as Edwina from England. Then while we were there, Aki showed up. He’s one of our advisors. Jeremy appeared, another from England, with Alex from Hawaii and Andrey from Russia. They didn’t swim, but they joined in when we moved to the beach for a real game.

We got our picture with four random Japanese girls who were there too. We did the same thing at night when we went back to the beach again just to walk around. The first time, Yuuichiro approached us, so this time we kind of approached others. Two groups were burying a friend in the sand, one because he’d lost rock paper scissors. We took pictures. Then we ran into another larger group and merged a little before we decided to head back to the dorm.

BUT, between beach trips we (me, Tess, Abdul, Christian, Mitch, Brian, and Robin) went out to karaoke. It was crazy. You go upstairs and find your room, and the hall was so cool but the room was like a sauna. All of Japan is like a sauna. We were dying, but it was really fun. They had Lady Gaga and Muse and even Justin Beiber.





I also finally tried out Mos Burger. It’s this burger place that puts a ton of weird sauces on their burgers. Mine was like… I don’t know, but it was brown and lumpy and had onions in it. There was also a white sauce and it was really messy. I should’ve taken a picture, but I’ll probably go back someday. Though it was a little pricey.