Dear Wendy,
It is 4am on our first real day in Japan. You and Schiel are sleeping but this bird (crow?) is awake, so I am awake. There is probably also jet lag at work here. You asked me to email you and tell you what we did every day, so here I am. This one will be short. Yesterday we flew into Tokyo. Woah, that happened. You watched Good Will Hunting while Schiel listened to music and I slept face-down on the table. The airplane food was nuts, they asked us "-Asian or western?" And we chose Asian and got our first curry. Probably not our last. We fumbled a little with all the condiments but with a little guesswork and copying our neighbours, we got it. When we landed we were immediately thrown into Tokyo transit without any phone data to help us. "How did people do it before?" You said, while we wondered if we were on the wrong train. We weren't. We actually managed to do it perfectly. While it was dark, we did get to see some snapshots of the crazy conglomerate of the past and the future that makes up Tokyo. Some streets had big box stores with neon signs, the McDonald's Golden Arches poked up through a tangle of buildings, and sometimes a solitary two story house floated by. We crossed a river that had cherry blossoms on its banks. I can't wait to go see them tomorrow in the light. I can't wait to see all of it in the light.
Kayla
