I got into Japan at about seven last night. I was already supposed to be in Tokyo by three but our flight was delayed in Chicago and I had missed my connecting flight to Nagasaki. A bunch of others in the exchange program also missed their flights and the airline gave us free hotel rooms and bus tickets to get there.

The hotel itself wasn't bad, but there wasn't all too much to do there. I mainly just hung out with two people I had met on the flight; Dylan from Phillidelphia and Noelle from New Jersey. We had nothing to do but we didn't want to go to bed so we just hung out in Dylan's double room and watched 24 Hour Television, which is pretty much just softcore porn with a bunch of audience members yelling things at the people on stage.

We also hit up the vending machines. These things will make me go broke within a week. They have everything you need and it's all delicious. Also, the drinking age in Japan is 20 but the vending machines have beer in them and no way of checking for ID. They believe very strongly in the honor system in Japan.

I've already moved into my first host home, but it seems like I'm only here for about two weeks. School starts on the first of September for me and I think I have to give a one-minute speech in all Japanese in about three days so I have to improve my language skills pretty quickly to survive. It's not going so badly, but I keep forgetting terms I've already learned and all that. However, this is also just the first day so we'll see how things go.

I don't really have much else to say and I'm tired so I'm just going to end this here. Plus I gotta wake up early tomorrow because we're going to some local hot springs which should be fun. But then again, I've also seen videos of the ridiculously crowded Japanese water parks so we'll see how that goes as well.