No WAY is my luck that bad.

So get this today we were working on a promotional video for Kandai which we have been working on all week.  Oh yeah before I forget funny story,  on my first day to work I ran into one of my old japanese friends on the platform.  And I have run into more people since.  It’s a weird feeling when you run into someone you know in a foreign country.  Anyway, so we are working and editing and waiting for some producer to have a look see at what we have done(by we I mean mostly them).  So we wait a couple hours and in walks mister important.  There is the general introducitons and then they turn to give my introduction.  The producer looks shocked like everyone does when they learn the company has a foreign intern.  Only this time it’s different.  He turns back to the director and head editor and starts talking with them real fast.  I am only able to pick up a few words but they are very imporant:kansai university, dorm, NHK, and most important AEROBICS.  Yes this was the same producer from the aerobics show I did in my dorm so long ago.  IT WAS THE SAME GUY AND HE REMEMBERED ME.  I was no longer an intern I was the aerobics guy.  And worst of all he totally remembered the ridiculous head bands that we all wore.  Let that be a leason to everyone everywhere: If you make an ass out of your self in a foreign country, don’t return to the same country.  THEY WILL REMEBER YOU.

And here I thought it was going to be tough….

So.  I have spent my first week on the job and here is what I have to say………..DAMN.  I am pulling in some serious hours here.  I have to get up at 7 every day so I can ride a bike for 10 minutes(and there is no weirder feeling than riding a bike in a business suit through rush hour in Japan).  It has only rained once and that once was a nightmare.  It’s a long ride in the downpour.  Then its a 37 minute ride in a train cramed with people.  Then it is a 15 minute walk through an underground maze.  I got lost in it more than once so far but they have really good bakerys in it.  So, my first day pretty much can be summed up with a simple sentence.  I met everyone and then went home.  The rest of the week hasn’t been so easy.  The other day I was asked to show up to work early and then after work I was asked  to acompany one of the employee’s to a soccar game where I got a press pass, made my way to the field, help interview players, and got free food in the green room.  Problem was I got home at 1130 and my host family had freaked out by then.  There is more to that story but it hasn’t played out yet.  I have got to work with experienced camera men in the field, got to shoot parts of my own movie project which I must turn into the company at the end of my internship, got to go to a soccar game like I mentioned, and have pretty much worked with profesionals every step of the way.  My first real day working I had to watch an editing sesion with some clients and then we went to the audio studio to work on radio commercials.  The second day was the long soccar game day.  But I got to see a cool game, eat japanese hot dogs, and pretty much enjoy all the benefits of the job(which there is alot).  Then the next day I was shown how to do linear editing in a studio.  Saturday I get to go to another soccar game and help tape it.  The saturday after I am going to nara to the live news broadcast and then to feed the wild deer there.  I got free tickects to the hanshin tigers baseball game.  I got alot going on and it is still my first week.  There is so much that happened I can’t even begin to tell it all.  You will just have to ask me about it when I get back.  Thats it for now.

Later