So I have made it to my first destination, that of the Seminar Houses of Kansai Gaidai University where I'll be staying for the week until I get to move in with my as-yet unknown host family (I find out Thursday?). The flight over was actually pretty awesome, I flew EVA Air and had an entire row of 3 seats to myself. I watched the Hana yori Dango movie and the new Woody Allen one, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which wasn't that good, even though I like Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. In the end, nobody learned anything, so what was the point? I also started on the book that Theora leant me called Confucius Lives Next Door, which was published in 1999 so that makes it 10 years old now. It's basically about the Japanese social miracle, like the low crime rate and strong family values and stuff like that. It's very engaging like she said it would be.

Right now I'm pretty overwhelmed by all the stuff I need to take care of this week, but wandering around the Kansai airport yesterday reassured me that I love Japan. The currency exchange guys joked with me a little bit when I said a few things to them in Japanese. One said to the other, 日本語、ぺらぺら ("she's fluent") and my first response was to say じゃね ("hell no") but it was under my breath, hahaha. I promise I'm not getting into trouble.

I spent my first 150 yen on a bottle of cold milk tea.

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I guess I should explain the name of this blog to those of you not familiar with nerdy jokes about Japanese. The name is 'djb' which is an abbreviation of the Japanese word 大丈夫 (daijoubu) which basically means "it's okay/I'm okay." I'm going to be sharing this link with friends and family alike, so everyone should leave me comments and stuff and it'll be a lot of fun.

それじゃ、また。