Immigration Day and Niigata

I woke up hella early to get to the High School by 9:30am. It's a two hour train trip, keep in mind. I showed up early, and once again, EK showed up late. We meet The assistant President in the morning and we talk over the contract, and the other paperwork that is necessary for the immigration office. It didn't take that long and it was good to find out exactly how much I get paid and how long I was going to work there too.

We were kinda hungry so we go to Denny's again like yesterday. But this time, EK forgot my resume in Japanese that he spent all last night translating. So he's doing that while I eat since I was starving.

We head off to the Immigration office, the lines are a little bit longer, but not really. It was hardly a wait and we had all the papers in line. We talked to the lady at the desk and realized that we were missing one paper from the high School that we needed. We needed the brochure of the school. But it was a non-essential paper so we proceeded to the other line and she checked everything and said that it would take about a month. EK was going to go back to the school and get the brochure and then come back to the immigration office to get it done because I had to go home and change clothes to go on my trip to Niigata. We parted ways at the ishikawa train station. We took a picture.

It took forever to get home because it was a slow train, but when I got to Ofuna station, I wanted to take another train to Totsuka so I could take the bus instead of walking. On the train, there was a group of little kids that were part of some group. The kids were cool, but the Brittish guy watching them was starting to bug me. He was kinda weird and touching the kids, kinda in the wrong way, but not sexually. The train was held up for about 20 minutes and I was like, come on hurry up. There was an "accident" and when I got off the train I saw the blood on the platform and was like... whoa... Kinda freaky. Brings reality of life and death in your face. The platform was filled with cops pushing people to one side so they could clean it up.

I proceeded to my house, it seemed to take forever. When I got home and changed and left again. It really seemed to take a lot of time. I took the Tokaido train again, but this time the "accident was all cleaned up. So I got to Tokyo station ok. First the train I wanted to take, had all the reserved seats taken up, and I didn't know how to use my Japan Rail Pass either. I end up walking on the wrong shinkansen. It was the one I wanted, but all the reserved seats were taken and the train master told me to get off and get on the next train. I had a reserved seat on the later train though.

It didn't take that long to get to Niigata. I passed by Takasaki which is the home place of MTka. I was nostalgic of my last trip to Japan, and was beginning to think that I'm really traveling now since it was the furthest I've been from Tokyo.

I arrived at Niigata station and it took a little while to find MSto, but we did. And I met her dad at the station. He seemed very nice and then we jumped into the car and off we were to her house. We passed a lot of things that I would later see in the week, but she pointed them out to me anyways.When we got home, we had dinner. I was really late, I was supposed to be there in the morning, but I arrived for dinner, so I felt really bad. The dinner was good. We watched some tv, it was the Asia cup at that time. Then we went to sleep.