Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Day #3 Marine house Camp, Room W116 Fukuoka, Japan- 7:14pm JST

I'm sorry i don't remember where i left off. But after we got to Chicago we ate lunch and exchanged our dollars for Yen. We followed- wait i said al this so... we ate "lunch" on the boeing 747 and tried to sleep. i was in the middle so i leaned on haley and put my feet on stepahnie's tray table. I got about an hour of sleep then and later a half hour. we landed but because we left chicago at lease an hour and a half late once at the Tokyo airport Amine, stephanie, haley and i got off. ms. renea was to follow with ryan and william. Rayan was not feeling well and william was just slow. we did not know that there were 2 doors on the 747- the four of us used one and ms renea and company used the other. ms renea went on to customs withoutus- well we contacted ms renea with the help of an airport official. we rushed to customs only to find we had the wrong forms! we quickly filled out the forms aadn passed through customs, baggage check, security and onto a bus all in record time. we boarded the plane. at this point we were LATE! but the flight wenr smoothly and i slept after a few rounds of blackjack. we arrived at camp after having our picture taken and riding a bus through Fukuoka. Japan smells very clean with a hint of salt. Fukuoka is a lot of ligths and very pretty. we were introduced to camp and after a light snack, bath- a few stories, lulabies and much controversy as to wheather orlando bloom is hot or not we went to bed. in my dorm are haley and stephanie, from atlanta, Elsie and Maia, from new Zealand, and Joo and Faree, from the maldives.

General Info

Hey guys,
Last summer i went to Japan i had an awesome time.
General inforrmation aobut my trip and who was with me:
I was going to the asian-pacific children's convention. AKA the APCC
with me went:
Ryan: the tall young guy (he was like early 11s, the rest of us were later 11s)
Amine: the small, loud boy with a french passport
William:the african-american kid who went to my school last year, only boy who understood half of what i said
Stephanine:the tall, asian girl who fit in best in japan, an awesome person
Hallie:the sweet girl who had the worst time ajusting, another awesome person
Ms. Renea: the chaperone and the only person who had ever been to japan before
for the first few days i stayed at a camp called the Mairne house Camp with hallie, stephanie, 2 girls from new zealand and 2 girls from the maldives. then i went to stay with the Okazaki family in the city of Fukuoka.
Now i am going to post my journal here so i don't have to keep it on post-it notes!!!!! Happy reading!!!