Today was my first full day in Tokyo. We had orientation in the morning and then went out to lunch. After lunch we split up and each group went to a different train station to do 5 minute English lessons which basically is us standing on busy street corners trying to talk to people. We hold signs that say free five minute English and then on the back has five questions for them to follow along and repeat. Our main goal is to make friendships here and just get to know the people. The questions are simple ones such as "what's your favorite movie?" and stuff like that. The last question is "what's your favorite book?" This is where we're supposed to bring the conversation back around to the Bible and Jesus and such.
Tokyo is huge and the public transportation system is sort of confusing. There are so many different stations and subways to take! My group had to go the farthest (about an hour or so ride) and we got on the wrong subway a few times so it actually took us almost three hours to get to our location so we only did five minute English for about an hour or so. Most of the people here speak very little English so it's sort of intimidating trying to speak to them.
Jet lag is still showing up and after walking around all day and being kind of 'thrown' into the culture right away I'm very tired and ready to sleep for a long time.
I'll try to post some pictures pretty soon.
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