The journey, arrival and first impressions. After a long flight we made ​​a stop in Beijing and waited there for a few hours to get on the plane to Tokyo. We went straight from school and I had not had time to recover myself after the project nor had I understood that we were going. Everything was just very surreal. We were eight people who went in advance, the rest would come together with the teachers a few days later. I am very happy that we decided to go earlier, that period was very much more like a holiday with friends than a field trip and we had a lot of fun and did an awful lot during those first days. I think that I wouldn't have got as much out of the trip without that extra week, it was really perfect.


First sight when we came out of the plane in Beijing's cool airport. I swear you could eat off the floor.






We passed the time by playing cards, doing long jump and sleeping on the benches.



Then we got on the plane that was my worst flight experience ever. It was a really bad turbulence from the start that lasted for what seemed like half an hour. Everything shook, creaked, and the plane went down again and again. Felt really bad.


Tired, but happy, gang arrived in Tokyo!



We felt a little lost when we got down into the subway, trying to find our way through the maze of aisles. But we learned pretty fast and they actually have a fairly simple system for having as many different train lines.



We stayed at a capsule hotel in Shinjuku. I expected the worst - small, claustrophobic capsules - and was very pleasantly surprised when I saw that our capsules were as large huts made ​​of wood, spacious enough for two and so cozy! Would easily choose this again, before a regular hotel. The hotel had nine floors, the top floor was a common room where we ate, chilled and talked with other young people from different countries.



I do not understand the combination of rice and chopsticks, but okay. It took some time but I got really good at it eventually.





It's difficult to capture the feeling in a photo, the feeling of standing there and seeing all the lights, blinking and sounding. It felt incredible. I jumped around yelling "omg we are in Tokyo, Aaaaah!"



We did something that can be very unwise, and followed with a barker who offered us discount "in the rooftop ". I, the mom of the group, protested, but the others didn't care. It turned out to be okay and we got our discount, haha.



We met some lovely Japanese people there, drunk and really funny, and like any other Japaneses very eager to take pictures with us!



Then we went to bed in our cabins , very tired and full of impressions after only one night!