I drove my car to school and back today as we had a very narrow window of time to catch our train to Tokyo. Lars and Mama were waiting outside when I pulled up outside my apartment. I dropped them off near Takasaki station while I went to park the car in the cheaper lots further away. We had like 4 minutes to spare, phew. Lars needed a ticket as well, because he had misplaced his IC card in his luggage and couldn’t find it. We managed to get all settle on the train for the next two hours to Shinjuku station. I got really hungry though since you aren’t supposed to eat on the local trains and I had no food with me.

We transferred at Shinjuku station to the subway to head to our airbnb. We decided to wait at the final station’s entrance as Papa was not far behind us. He had taken the shinkansen up from Osaka. We got to the airbnb at 8 pm and ran into all sorts of trouble getting into the building. The worst experience I’ve had yet. Mostly it was due to the language barrier in her instructions in how to get the key and my assumption that there would be two keys. We finally got in the apartment over an hour later. The family proceeded to complain about how small it was, but I thought it was rather big for an inner city, Tokyo, apartment, ha. We all decided it was too late to get proper dinner, so we went to the conbini instead. It was my first full conbini dinner meal. I made it almost 11 months! We ended up going to bed around midnight, eep!