How Did I Get Here?: Nagasaki is like the Indianapolis of Chicago

Ok, I suppose I should bring anyone who's reading this up to speed. I landed in Tokyo on Sunday afternoon. I got through customs and immigration relatively quickly (they print your Alien Registration Card while they're asking you if you're bringing into the country any drugs, porn, or swords, to save time). I took a couple of trains to a different part of Tokyo and then walked around for about 40 minutes before discovering that my hotel was actually right next to the train station I had just come out of.

The hotel was nice (read: quaint), and I really wanted to get out and see Tokyo for a little bit but I had been travelling for almost 24 hours solid so I ate a dinner of Reece's Pieces and went to bed pretty early. After all, I had more travelling in store the next morning.

Monday I woke up around 3:30 in the morning thanks to a horrifying dream involving several creepy dead girls from horror movies I have seen and boogers. Also, I'm sure the jet-lag helped me wake up that early. I walked to the train station (but not the same one I had come out of the night before) and took another train to Haneda Airport which used to be Tokyo's only airport until they built Narita. I met the company president at the airport and we flew down to Nagasaki. There's a short and potentially illegally-taken video of the flight's take off if you missed my previous post. From the Nagasaki airport we took a taxi to the apartment to unload luggage, and then another taxi to the company to pick up my car.

I spent the afternoon following the president around town, him in his car and me in mine, buying food and dishes and things I would need for my stay here. After errands, we came back to the apartment. This picture is my apartment. That is to say, it's the front porch of my apartment, looking across the street towards a really nice house with a big garden. You can't actually SEE my apartment in this photo because it's right behind me. Anyway, we chatted and drank a couple of beers and napped until dinnertime, when we met a friend/company client for Japanese-style barbecue.

I officially started working today (Wednesday). Yesterday was spent making most of my final preparations like registering myself at the municipal building and trying to open a bank account. Today was spent mostly learning how to make CCLs which are basically one of the major components of printed electronics. The client, however, I could not look at for very long because he had super crazy teeth. I'm not one to talk about physical appearances normally, but his teeth were REALLY long and windy, like a country road. And also like a country road, there was no real set order to them, they just kind of came in wherever.

Ok, I suppose you want to see the inside of my apartment. Here: