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