New Adventure

It seems my video problems are endless. My new Canon formats the videos into MVI, which I've never had to deal with before. MVI format is useless, I cannot edit the videos on Windows Movie Maker without first converting them, and I am having quite an issue finding a reliable FREE program to convert videos with. I dedicated many a frustrating hours to this yesterday and failed miserably. It doesn't help that I have to use Yuki's computer, where everything is in Japanese and he is wary of me downloading new things onto it. By now I've figured my way around it fairly well, but I still have to constantly ask him what this and that means and it slows down the process considerably.

What it comes down to is that I don't have the time right now to figure it out because...*drum roll please*....I am going to Tokyo! Me and Yuki finally figured out a gap in our schedules, right after he ends school and right before I begin it, to go on a road-trip together.

Let's have a moment of silence for the class party Yuki had to so valiantly sacrifice in order to come.

Anyway, I have spent the past 2 days frantically setting up a couch-surfing account and contacting people to let us stay with them. We are heading off today (and already at a late start) and hitch-hiking our way to Nagoya for the weekend. On Sunday we will hopefully hitch-hike the rest of the way to Tokyo, and return on Wednesday. The original plan was for Friday but all my semester fees and class registration are inconveniently due by 6pm on Wednesday, and the wouldn't let me do them early, so we are going to race home and hopefully make it in time.

So, that is a basic outline of our trip. This is our first time hitch-hiking and Yuki was against it at first, since he doesn't think Japanese hitch-hike and it's weird. But hopefully it will be such a great experience that his mind shall be changed! And I am very excited about couch-surfing, the people who agreed to let us stay seem really nice and interesting.

Well, I've got to go put the finishing touches on the sign we made. Then we've got a 45 minute walk to the intersection we plan on standing at, wish us luck!