Well, here I am...

Right now I'm sitting in the gorgeously, huge Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku. I can't believe I actually typed that sentence. It is after midnight here (Monday), but my body still thinks that it's 10am on Sunday. And yet, I don't care. I don't care about the time because I'm easily distracted by being able to look out my window and see these huge sky scrapers that envelope every corner of my vision. I'm actually speechless. While this is still all a dream to me, I do realize that the next few days are expected to be very crazy, but hopefully, not too overwhelming. I really should be off to bed, but I gotta share just a brief story. After I arrived at the hotel, I soon realized that I had accidentally shipped off a bag that I desperately needed. (Hopefully) my bag should be waiting for me at my apartment in Sapporo when I arrive. So, my first task after getting settled, calling mom and scrounging for some yen to go find something to eat was to find a convenience store to replace some of the things that I was missing. I picked up my room key and jetted for the lobby before it got much later. I made it out the door only to see it pouring down rain outside. So, after some ridiculous wandering around the hotel (which, honestly, was kinda fun) I came across a cute little convenience store. I stood there trying my best to read the labels on some of the bottles, in an effort to find a facial wash replacement. Success! I found a very cute, and cheap bottle of face wash, but upon further inspection, it began to look more like a face-whitening cream...which is what I definitely do not want. And so I kept looking and looking. I'd like to say that I was able to get by on my Japanese alphabet skills, but sadly no. I grabbed the only bottle that said "facial foam" in English. Oh well, that thing that I learned from this experience is that I'm sure that I'm gonna do a ton of silly things and make numerous mistakes in the following months. But hey, that's called living. I've grown to see living as "living forward." We gotta take chances, we gotta keep looking ahead even after a few stumbles along the way. I mean, hey, after what felt like an endless pursuit and through sheer determination, I did end up with a pretty cool face wash, hehe. So I say, keep stumbling. There's nothing wrong with that. Just stand back up, brush yourself off, and keep going forward.