Kind of backtracking here, But on March the 5th I left manchester for Japan :D I got a flight from manchester to Heathrow at 6am, then waited for the other volunteers, eating sushi in pret a manger. Everyone was very excited and giddy, buying random things for presents for our hosts, I bought jam (they like it in Japan). We boarded the giant plane and most of sat together, ready for the 12 hour flight.


It was effort being up there for 12 hours, cause Id fall asleep for 3 hours, was up and there'd still be lke 7 hours to go, ridiculous XD We watched looper and wreck-it-ralph on the tv, and I read Keith Richards autobiography. The food was lovely, we got cocktails, edamame bean and noodle starter, a sweet chicken, veg and sticky rice main, and a Gu pudding. They also randomly woke everyone up and gave us all a cheese pastie, then before landing we got a full english breakfast, a muffin and a yoghurt.

Then we got off and took lots of silly pictures of just the airport, and the welcome to Japan sign, then the security started splitting us up and asking for all our documents, which took a while. They also took a photo of each of us for their records, I wasnt happy about that after the flight.
Then we met up with Ide san, the coordinator over here, and the canadian volunteers, and we sent our luggage to our placements.

 Then we got a bus to the youth hostel, which was massive (about 20 stories high) and we had a great view of tokyo from our room window.

 That day, Ide san took us around the area and for lunch at a buffet, which was really nice. Then we all slept, cause the jet lag was unbearable. Afterwards i was super hungry, so we went to a restaurant where you choose what your want from the plastic replicas outside, then put the money in a machine and get a ticket to hand to the staff.

I got a kind of pork katsu and soba noodles. It was wayyy more than what I thought id ordered, but only cost 500 Yen :D

Here are Sarah, Chloe and Evelyn. Im living in Nagasaki with Sarah and Chloe, Evelyn is one of the canadian volunteers. We realised that a mixture of a posh girl from Milton keynes, this Manc, a scot from Dumfries and a girl from Toronto cant understand a word each other says XD