Super cool Japan postage!
FINALLY. HA, I figured the best way to do this is to just post what I have written in my journal. But since the journal was like homework, the writing was just to get by, and since the leaders read it, the GOOD stuff won't be in there. They gave us a tab to put in our journals that they can't read past for our personal things, but who wants to do more writing when you're in fucking JAPAN?!?!. Not me. Ho ho ho. So I'll just add anything important about that day after the journal entry.

Here we go.

Day 1:
It hadn't really hit me that I was leaving until the night before and then it got me hard. I started to feel really sad. But when it came time to leave, I felt very anxious. The parents said a tearful last goodbye and then we boarded the bus. The bus was okay. Everything was fine in the Buffalo airport and the flight to Detroit was very short. I was a little nervous about flying but it was okay (I've seen too many airplane crash movies.) The Detroit airport was very big and it felt like a mall. We got into some problems when we went to exchange currency and we ended up on the other side of security, but it we handled it like ambassadors and we got back in. The flight to Japan wasn't as bad as I thought. It was long and cramped but somehow I thought it was going to be a lot worse. It was the longest flight I've ever been on. The leaky wing made me nervous, though. The Japanese airport was better than the others. We got to see some of Japan on our bus ride to Tokyo, and we saw Tokyo Disney. Everything's lit up like Las Vegas and the buildings are tall because they don't have the space to make them wide. We ate at a restaurant in Tokyo, and the city was very busy and it looks beautiful at night. The food was western but prepared with a little Japanese twist. We checked into our hotel where we are now. I'm to bed. Oyasuminasai!

Okay so yeah, the first day, when we were in the aiport Nick, Chris, Clarissa, Amber, Trevor and I went to exchange money. (Nick led this little expedition.) We just looked at the map and followed it, but like, they should have a warning on those doors that once you pass there you can't get back in. Well we ended up having to through security again but they wouldn't let us in because our leaders had our boarding passes. So then this boss guy comes and helps us get new boarding passes and then we sucessfully got through security and got back in with time to spare. xD that was scary. We told the first leader that came around, which was Doug, and he didn't really care but then when Eria saw that we had our own boarding passes she was like "O__O where did you get those?" but then I was like "We already explained it to Doug" then she was like "Okay." end of that XD. The hotel we stayed at that night, the Prince, I believe, was NICE. Four or five star. We had fun exploring and then we found the convience store where I bought some Pinky candy <3 and I tried green tea ice cream and it was okay, but it wasn't all that good either. Really icky but tolerable XD. Their green tea is a lot stronger than ours, but I prefer American green tea. I don't think anything else is worth pointing out for that day.

Day 2:
I slept pretty well and in the morning we ate breakfast and we boarded the bus to the government building. We got to see the conference rooms and the view of the city was astonishing, everything is so packed together. It's nothing like . Eating lunch at the cafeteria there was interesting because thre were displays of food with a number and then you insert your money, pick your number, and get a ticket that you take to the chefs to get your meal. We visited the sumo museum that learned that sumo was based on religious rituals. The museum was interesting but there were no guides and the descriptions were in Japanese, so I couldn't take much information from it. We briefly went shopping in the electronics district. The stores were packed togethr and most of them didn't have doors. There are lots of TV's advertising things and escalators. The outdoors merges with the indoors. We visited the animation studio and we got to voice a cartoon. The guide was very humorous and even though there was a language barried we all had a great time. We ate shabu shabu which is raw beef you boil yourself in a pot. We don't have much food like that in the states because raw food is taboo in our culture. But it was very tastey and fun to eat.

Okay, so, the Tokyo metro building was pretty cool, the view man, the VIEW. XD And the guide was very cool, at the end she took a picture of use with her phone LOL. At the cafeteria I was eating with Nick and Trevor, and like, the tables are connected with a barrier between different 'tables' and while we were eating this old Japanese guy starts peaking over it, and then he disappears again, and a moment later he peaked over again and asked us what country we were from xD It was pretty cool lol. The sumo museum was... BORING XD it was like one room with nothing that we could read. We only learned what our manager for the trip, Keiko, told us. There was a tv playing short matches and we all crowded around there and were betting on which guy would win xD. Akihabara, the electronics district was super cool~ It was all like manga, anime, games, gundams, cameras, ipods, and PORN! Lawlz XD Nick and I were in the back of this one store gawking at all the porn and one of the mags was (i think) boys in leatha and drag and stuf XD It was cool. But we think that the store guy was trying to tell us to get out XD Haha. So we were all "Zomg oh snap!" In one of the stores this tall pretty french lady was talking to us, she was trying to find a kimono that fit her, with no luck. She spoke english, german AND spanish as well as of course French >.< But she was super nice.

Anyway, i'm getting bored already. I guess this thing will be in installments XP

CMNT.