Good morning from Tokyo!
After a long long journey with heavy bags and a broken suit case, we finally arrived in Japan again. We have been planning our second stay since the moment we got back to Holland almost 1,5 years ago, so we're very happy to be here.
Our journey started on January 2 at 03:45 am in Delft. Daphne's parents took us to Schiphol Airport where we said goodbye to our families and friends and from where we would fly to Heathrow to change flights for Narita Airport. Fortunately everything went very well: no delays or other incidents. As always the flight to Tokyo takes a long time but the onboard videosystem allowed us to watch some movies and play videogames. After we landed things went smoothly as well. We picked up our bags, proceeded through customs and headed to the trains. We took the Keisei line and were very surprised to actually see a Dutch Windmill (!!) on our way to Tokyo. Imagine flying halfway around the world and one of the first things you see is a windmill. Amazing!
Because of the Japanese new year holiday season Sakura House, our housing association, was closed. So we stayed at an inn in the Asakusa area. Therefore, the next day we had to take our suitcases through the crowded Tokyo public transportation again. To make matters worse, one of the suitcases broke a wheel.... You can imagine how happy we were when we finally arrived in our new home in Sugamo, a nice and quiet neighborhood in the northern part of Tokyo.
We were welcomed by the landlady, a very friendly Japanese elderly lady who lives next door. She gave us a welcome present with Japanese sweets and extra blankets against the cold. All roommates are either working or studying so it's a quiet house where we expect to be able to study hard. We have now settled in and are very happy to live in this house. It still takes some time to get used to the small doors, where we need to bend to enter the rooms. We showed some pictures of our room in the previous post, now we will post some photo's we made of the common area.
In this first week we also had our first visits to Yoshida, our Language School. We had our orientation meetings, and had to do a placement-test. We are both content with the classes we were placed in. Next week our classes start, and we will have to study hard. The teachers are friendly but seem very strict too. We'll keep you posted on our progress.
After a long long journey with heavy bags and a broken suit case, we finally arrived in Japan again. We have been planning our second stay since the moment we got back to Holland almost 1,5 years ago, so we're very happy to be here.
Our journey started on January 2 at 03:45 am in Delft. Daphne's parents took us to Schiphol Airport where we said goodbye to our families and friends and from where we would fly to Heathrow to change flights for Narita Airport. Fortunately everything went very well: no delays or other incidents. As always the flight to Tokyo takes a long time but the onboard videosystem allowed us to watch some movies and play videogames. After we landed things went smoothly as well. We picked up our bags, proceeded through customs and headed to the trains. We took the Keisei line and were very surprised to actually see a Dutch Windmill (!!) on our way to Tokyo. Imagine flying halfway around the world and one of the first things you see is a windmill. Amazing!
Because of the Japanese new year holiday season Sakura House, our housing association, was closed. So we stayed at an inn in the Asakusa area. Therefore, the next day we had to take our suitcases through the crowded Tokyo public transportation again. To make matters worse, one of the suitcases broke a wheel.... You can imagine how happy we were when we finally arrived in our new home in Sugamo, a nice and quiet neighborhood in the northern part of Tokyo.
We were welcomed by the landlady, a very friendly Japanese elderly lady who lives next door. She gave us a welcome present with Japanese sweets and extra blankets against the cold. All roommates are either working or studying so it's a quiet house where we expect to be able to study hard. We have now settled in and are very happy to live in this house. It still takes some time to get used to the small doors, where we need to bend to enter the rooms. We showed some pictures of our room in the previous post, now we will post some photo's we made of the common area.
In this first week we also had our first visits to Yoshida, our Language School. We had our orientation meetings, and had to do a placement-test. We are both content with the classes we were placed in. Next week our classes start, and we will have to study hard. The teachers are friendly but seem very strict too. We'll keep you posted on our progress.
Fantastisch! Ziet er goed uit allemaal. Geniet van jullie tijd daar, ik blijf meelezen =)
ReplyDelete@ deurpost Daarom buigen de Japanners natuurlijk. :-) goog luck
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