What hapenned since the start of my trip to Japan

Hello everyone, here comes the very late, first post of my life in Japan.
Like I said before, I had to deal with some personal drama before I could start posting again, it's not completely over, but I feel good enough to finally make an update on this life changing trip.

I'll start by going over the trip itself. I bought a bunch of DS games before I left so I could play them in the plane... unfortunately, while packing, I never found my charger again... so I couldn't play anything... but it wasn't that bad of a flight, since I was with Air Canada, I at least had a bunch of movies to choose from on their personal display thing. I watched a Jurassic Park again! I also watched The Expendables 2 (never saw the first one)... It's actually a really good action movie. Jean-Claude Van Damme was an awesome evil guy, and we got to see his ultimate kick twice!
Movies aside, during this trip we felt the worse turbulence I ever felt. It was kinda crazy, you felt that the plane had hard time staying straight. A girl was screaming behind me "OHHH NONNNNNNN!!! NONNNN!!!!" really increased the suspense lol. Pretty sure she was from Quebec, she had the Quebec way of screaming. The captain said "we're going through moderate turbulence"... so this was moderate? I really don't want to ever go through Heavy turbulence =/

We eventually ended up in one piece in Tokyo.

Spent the first night at the Tokyo Green Hotel Korakuen, a hotel just beside the Tokyo Dome, and the Tokyo Dome City's Love Illumination. Because Christmas here is about love, and couples... It's cute alright, but it was cold, I underestimated Japan's winter, I should have brought my winter coat with me. Oh well. I didn't take any picture, I should have, but I didn't. The only pictures I have are pictures from inside the room.

You can't really see much on these sorry.

The day after I was in a cheap little hotel, and spent the whole day sleeping. I bought a Melon Pan, but I ate like 3 pieces and threw it away... I used to love them but for some reason now I can't stand them.

On the third day I went to get my apartment. It's a small, poorly isolated apartment located in Nakano, near the shin-Nakano station. It take about 20-25 minutes of walk to get to the Nakano broadway. I though that there was nothing around but I can get pretty much anything I need by walking, there's even a McDonald (didn't go yet) lol. 

You can see pictures of my apartment and it's surroundings here: AppartmentShinNakano

After that I've tried to live a normal life here, I'll give more details on this in another post, and I'll also talk about comiket and other places I went since I got there. 

There will not be a french version of this.

No news about Japan

I'd really like to give you some news about Japan, but right now, all I see is black, I'm in the land I always wanted to be in, and everything is dark. I can't breathe, I can hardly eat, I really don't feel like writing anything about Japan here.

Worst timing

So I'm finally in Japan, and I feel like shit.
It's Christmas,  in Japan Christmas is the couples holiday, but I'm now officially not par of this group anymore.
I hope I can get over this shit soon or it's gonna be the worst period of my life.

2 days left

That's right, there's only 2 days left before I leave... It's kinda crazy right now with everyone trying to do something with me... my luggage are still not done, but should be finished by noon tomorrow. I'm leaving most of my stuff at a friend's house, 17 boxes (thanks Mat). There's still a bunch of stuff left around here, that I don't know if I'll bring or not... 2 luggae if more than enought when you're visiting, but when you're moving it's a whole different story.

On another note, I'll be doing some time from my old work while in Japan, so that's an unexpected income that is gonna help greatly!

plan for the next 3 days:
friday:

• last laundry and finishing of luggage packing
• last dinner with old coworkers
• trip to shop to buy some everyday stuff (shampoo, razors, etc)
• moving of last boxes/bags
• moving of furniture
• advance Christmas party with family

Saturday:

• finishing of anything that I didnt have time to finish the day before (I'm expecting some bags/box may remain)
• Jiyu&Aura's wedding

Sunday:

• get to the airport
• Leave!

I don't know if I'll post again before leaving.

Job hunt... still on...

Apparently I didn't have what it takes for this one... not too surprised, but still sucks.
I'll try again, getting something in IT would be more interesting anyway...

This is what I'm good at.

Leaving soon... sigh

I'm... a little more than 2 weeks away from my departure to Japan... and I'm not happy.
I'm probably at my lowest in years.
I'm closing on on a dream, but somehow I still can't see it, my world is darkened by that 1 thing that's going bad...
I think I could become millionaire right now and I'd still feel like shit...
And it's not that bad... I guess if you watch it from the outside, I'm not sick or anything... but I can barely gather enough motivation to breath and eat right now...
stupid brain.
I know I should stop caring about this... I know it's my big dream coming up, so why care avout something like this?
But I can't stop thinking about it, I can't sleep, everything tastes bad.
...

answer me...

Update on the apartment and job hunt.

I decided to go with an apartment, because the shared house are just too expensive for the difference in privacy and convenience. Unfortunately, I waiting too long after my first choice so it's already taken. After that I found another Interesting one, and really cheap too. So I quickly wrote to the guy to tell him I was reserving it, unfortunately, due to his slow answers, and probably to his colleagues faster answers, someone else got it first. Now I ust looking at all apartments again from scratch *sigh* It's boring and takes so much time. At least if I was there I could see them, feel the place, but doing it just from pictures and description isn't that convenient.

The job hunt however is going well. I'm at the second Interview now, so if I don't mess up I should secure it.