Thursday, September 16, 2004

The Ambassador's House

Last night the Japan-United States Educational Commission hosted a formal welcome reception for this year's Fulbright grantees at the United States Ambassador to Japan's house. After passing two security check-points we walked through the tree lined lane to a very beautiful and peaceful house in the middle of Tokyo's Roppongi area. It was a lovely reception attended by a Minister of Education, certain commission Chairpersons, and all the current and former Fulbrighters from both Japan and the US that were in the area. We drank wine, exchanged business cards, and repeated our fields of study at least fifty times. It was a nice evening, but the jet lag hit around 8:30pm and most of us went to bed soon after.

On a side note: I am staying at the Tokyo Daiichi Hotel where the hallways are entirely pink and the room keys are old fashion skeleton keys with large pink emblems. My roommate conjectured that we are staying on the Princess Floor..

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