I made it! The flight was good. Long, alittle bumpy at times but good. I watch alot of movies because they were free! Star Trek, Wedding Singer, Cirque di Solei. I played tetris and slept alot. They fed me weird food on the plane but they fed me twice! I had to carry on my guitar with me so that I could bring it for free. If I checked it, it would have been 180 dollars. I got in at 2pm Japan time (Japan is 14 hours ahead). I had to go through immigration and customs and then i had to convert my traveler's cheques to yen with wasn't so bad. the exchange rate was 1 US to 92.8 yen though. I bought my limosine ticket (bus ticket) to my place, checked in and met my roomate. Meredith is American and black so thats cool. She's from Seattle but originally from Detroit. We're getting along, which I didn't expect. She's kind of shy so I have the dominating personality in the room. I'm not being a bully though. The room at the Weekly Mansion hotel - Akasaka is like a small hotel room with a bathroom similar to the one on the cruise and NO repeat NO closet.....at all.....like nothing. 2 American girls living in a room with 6 drawers and NO closet space. Needless to say, but I overpacked - not by much though. We put away some things and got to know each other and then we met up with some people on our floor and we to get something to eat. THAT was new experience! After that we walked around and got lost but I still felt comfortable. I was still in the Akasaka neighborhood. Everything feels safe here. People don't like their bikes here but police are always close. Right when I came in and sat outside to wait for my limosine bus two officers approached me and a Temple student and asked for our passports and wrote down all our information. I don't know what that was about but they were SUPER SUPER friendly about it. So I'm mixed on how to feel about that. I didn't want to refuse them because what if I said 'No' and pissed them off. I don't want to come home and say "well, within the first 20minutes I mananged to piss off the Tokyo police who just happen to be super nice to me". So we found a grocery store near the hotel and I got a capri-sun looking pouch of orange juice and banana juice and some mini danishes for breakfast tomorrow. The total was 525. Temple is taking care of lunch. Everything else is going pretty well. I know a few people. 3 guys, 5 girls and so far life is good.