terça-feira, 28 de agosto de 2007

Japanese taste of life!

So Last week I arrived by plane on Narita airport via Frankfurt airport (where IFA Staff was waiting people from my proggram to arrive and make sure we were confortable until we had to depart for Japan), In frankfurt i met other proggram teens from Germany, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Sweden and Poland, Such amusing people at least most of them. The Flight from Oporto to frankfurt was more less 4h 30m and then from Frankfurt to Narita was more less 11h 30m so of just flight time total 16h without waiting time.In Portugal time is GMT and tokyo is 8h ahead so i left my home country at 3pm gmt and arrived in tokyo at 3pm (tokyo time) of the next day which was a Sunday. When we arrived at narita we went to a private lounge just for this proggram and there we met the rest of the people that were arriving or had already arrived and IFA staff were briefing us all the time with such a warm welcome XD.I already had made some nice friends on the plane and on narita airport for example Gabija-san (Lithuania), Anthony-san (Lumxemburg), Martyna and Agata (Poland) and also with Mafalda (Portugal). So at least those people and me whent to tour around the airport while waiting for other people to arrive.The heat and humidity in Tokyo is just unbearable feels like a sauna.So when everyone had arrived (well everyone except one English girl (Rachel) which lost her passport in Greece so she only came on the middle of the week), we were shown to the bus which had to ride for about 1h and 30m to get to the hotel (Toshi center hotel in tokyo), well ill show u the 3 videos i made while on the bus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGNEcRzooU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-TsaU8IH5M


After that we (european representitives) spent a week in tokyo at the Toshi Center hotel.
More less in each room there were 2 to 3 people, well in my room it was me, the finnish girl called Ada and one of The British girl's called Rachel (she only arrived on Wednesday night because she had problems with her passport).






Well but during that week we went karaoke, travveled a lot through tokyo (akihabara, Shibuya, Shinjuku, roppongi hills, asakusa...), we had Japanese classes, briefings, and we travelled a lot by subway, train and boat was so amusing with everyone i had so much fun the only thing that was too much was the heat it was too hot out in the sun.


Almost everynight except the first we would only comeback after our curfew because we were patying, watching a movie, travelling thruw tokyo and going karaoke it was sooo much fun can't describe. And the guy in charge of the lobby was named Micky he was so cool and would cover for us XD. And would give us hints about what they were gonna do and what to watchout for.


(Some of the people that went out karaoking me and German girl named Nicoline (just awesome she is going to Fukuoka or as we say FuckWalker), on the other 2 picures Darja from Latvia, Berenice from France and Maria from Spain, and on the last photo kyra from Holland and Marcello from Italia.)




And OMG the cakes are just to die for!!!!(François the French guy eating strawberry shortcake in akihabara's top floor of a huge electronic store)


Japan couldn't be more welcoming as I've been experiencing.



Miss ya all from back home takecare guys love ya all*************