Well, I've arrived in Japan, had my first dinner in the dorm, and not only had a tour, but used some of the facilities and so far, I've nothing to complain about.
But before I get into the details of those, which I'm sure you're eager for, I figure I'll finish my write up for the rest of the journey. I had a three hour wait in Dubai airport, which wasn't too bad in retrospect as it gave me sufficient time to stretch my legs a bit. The only problem arose when actually getting onto the plane for the trip to Narita. Upon boarding, there were a few workmen in the plane, working with circuit boards hanging from the ceiling. It's not an especially calming feeling to see parts of the plane you're about to travel from hanging from bits of wire. Due to whatever it was that was a problem, the plane remained on the runway for three hours. I made use of that and had my only bit of sleep on the journey.
A lot of the journey was broken up with naps, or watching Thor and Source Code, both of which were pretty cool. There was also a fellow sitting next to me with quite a severe cold that woke me up with each and every time he cleared his throat. The only other thing of note was waking up to find that my glasses had fallen off my face, and I couldn't find them straight away, so I had a mild panic to myself that my entire year in Japan would result in struggling to see anything properly. Found them in about two minutes though, almost as I trod on them.
Immigration went fine, as did customs, almost so much that there's little to even say on the matter. I met some people from Hosei University in the arrivals lounge, and one of them was kind enough to buy me a bottle of water. I managed a few broken sentences in polite Japanese, which went down pretty well. The staff at the dorm are all really nice, and I'm relieved to find I understood more of what the dorm-mother was saying than I usually did in my Japanese language classes.
All that's really left to do now is get some sleep, unpack, and then get to the hundred yen shop for some slippers of my own.
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