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14/02 Moving in day

 Today started great! 

I woke up and and headed straight to have breakfast at the hotel restaurant. I made myself a plate that had a little bit of everything (well...not everything, personally I found it a little too early for things like raw fish and stir fry at 7A.M.😅) 



After my breakfast I packed my bags and checked out, I walked around Nippori for a while (Nippori is known as the fabric town of Tokyo and has endless fabric shops) 




And then it was time to sign my contract, I was really exited to do this and get to my student dorm. The lady helping me was really sweet and she translated everything for me since all documents were in Japanese. The metro ride from Nippori to Nerima was about 1 hour and went really good, the staff of my hotel was so sweet and wrote everything down for me! 😊


When I arrived at my dorm I had a little mental breakdown, the whole house was quite dirty so I cleaned my room before unpacking. When I went to the bathroom 1 of my housemates had written a lot of mean notes to someone else saying they need to keep the bathroom clean or otherwise she will make sure they have to leave the house and she had put them all over the wall. 

I saw 2 of my housemates in the hall, the first girl was really friendly but she didn't speak a word of English. The second girl turned her back on me when I tried to say hi and ignored me until I went back to my room. I'm really hoping to find someone in the house who speaks English, no luck today but I'll try again tomorrow. 

After resting for a while and unpacking everything I went out for dinner. I still need to buy some kitchen equipment so I wasn't able to cook yet. After strolling around for a bit I found a really nice restaurant with lovely staff, I could order trough a tablet on my table (in English!!) and a robot would bring my food out. It was really good! And although the fanta melon looks a bit radioactive, this was really nice too! 




I'll be back tomorrow, goodnight x






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  1. Mamasa(rah)14 februari 2024 om 10:10

    On the upside: waren de briefjes in de badkamer in het Engels? Dan zou dat wel betekenen dat je toch al met 2 mensen kan communiceren. 😱😜

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