Registration

Today marked the day that I registered as a foreign resident. A lot of it was guided by Hosei, but I was still quite surprised at the simplicity of the whole procedure. A mere two sheets were filled out, and with a lot of blank spots, then we handed over passports and photos, and that was all that was really required of us. After that, it was an hour and a half wait, which mostly consisted of walking around the town a bit, and then we completed our registration. Slight issue is that there's another two weeks to go until we actually have our registration cards, but we're able to get a certificate tomorrow that allows us to buy a phone and open a bank account tomorrow, which I'll be attempting to do!

The rest of the day was mostly wandering around Shibuya, which was also the first time I've really wandered around the city by myself. I found a few occasions to speak in Japanese, which was responded to in two different ways. While I asked a question in pretty simple Japanese, I would either get something in broken English, or I'd get something which was much too complicated to understand, which I guess is just part of what you get when you're a foreigner speaking Japanese. The exception to this was only when I asked policemen for directions, who I also found are all pretty nice people, making sure I understood and responding in simple Japanese. They even threw around a few jokes, which I didn't expect! Regardless, I think the response to me being foreign is something that I'm very unlikely to shake, which is a bit of a shame.

Very little is coming to mind at the moment, which makes me feel like I'm forcing myself to write at least something, which is probably a bad sign.