Messer Shimai entered the Missionary Training Center!

Hello Everybody!! Wow, what a stressful couple of days!! After you dropped me off, my host led me around campus picking up piles of books and then I dropped my stuff of in my room. Then I went straight to class where my sen sei talked in ONLY Nihango (Japanese)!!! I was SO stressed because my companion, Pinzon Shimai already knows Japanese and my other companion, (yes I have 2) can pick stuff up like nobody's business! She already understands our investigator! So After class we went to a freshman orientation where I saw Elder Terril, Elder Sullivan AND Elder Roemer (It's SO FUN to see familiar faces! I see Matthew Roemer every meal! I guess the Albanian and Nihongo missionaries follow the same schedule. I haven't seen Shane Terril since then, but I ran into Elder Sullivan in the bookstore, and it made my day SO MUCH BETTER!! I was so happy!!!!! But after the orientation we went to dinner, and then we taught these investigators in a big room with about 50 missionaries, one was a guy from Guatemala and there was a guy missing a leg, and the last one was a volleyball player from Stanford, this big Tongan guy who cried at the end cause the spirit was so strong :) I forgot my schedule from the first day, so i can't really remember what happened, so much has happened since! Oh, and mom to answer your question there were 600 missionaries total, not just sisters :) So
Thursday, we got up at 6 had breakfast, and then personal study (which is in our classroom) and then we had a Preach My Gospel workshop, I love workshops in English, but sadly that was our last one we have. Then we had "personal physical exercise" translation: do situps while reading your vocab. YES we had a whole page of vocab the very first day. Then we had an "MTC orientation" where a teacher came to our class and explained some online programs we get to do, it's call TALL it's just learning Nihongo online. Then we had class, (which is 3 hours everytime) and then dinner. I pretty much just eat salad for almost every meal. The meals aren't bad here, the salads are just fancy salads so I like them. Then review language time, and then we met with the Branch President, he's super cool. Yesterday was pretty much the same, except we had two three hour classes, but the first one we taught our first investigator. YES we taught him on Friday, it was all in Nihongo and thank goodness Pinzon Shimai knows Nihongo, he would ask questions and she would answer. He asked me how many people were in my family, I said three sisters, so then he was like 3 total? and then I got lost and had no idea what he was saying. I just held up my hand in a 5 and Cook Shimai said it in Nihongo. We got to go to the gym yesterday too, and we get 2 hours to study PMG. Today we just had some personal study time, lunch, temple with the churro tachi (elders) Dinner's next, and then class. I'm scared! Class scares me!! But we teach our investigator again on Monday. We do three times a week. I am so jealous of those English speaking missionaries!! Tibi, she's got it good. So I got my first dearelder from Mom, Dad, Aus, and Tibi!! And then the Barlows sent me a Halloween package! I was SO happy to get it!! It was the only Halloween thing I got besides that letter you sent up with me, mom. Our district leader gets the mail twice a day, so it's always a little sad when I don't get anything, so go ahead, send two letters a day :) It's so weird here, by the end of the day my mind is exhausted and I can't even think! It's weird always being with someone, like even if one of my companions is in the bathroom, or showering, the other one is in the room. So my only alone time is my shower in the morning. Oh blessed showers! Oh, AUS to answer your question, we don't have a tub in our bathroom, idk what you're talking about. Plus, our showers go all the way up to the ceiling so I don't have to worry about making awkward eye contact with another tall person. Oh, didn't you say you lived in 17M? That's where the Mandarin speaking sisters live, they're just a floor under us during classroom study. So I was so close to being in 17M! Our room has 3 bunk beds, so 6 beds in all, and there are only three of us. We all sleep on the bottom of a different bed, although I think I might sleep on the top sometime, cause top bunks are the best kind of bunks. Well, I am going to try to email you some pictures. See if it works, I have to borrow Cook Shimai's camera cord because They don't have memory card slots Aii shite imasu!!! I love you!!! Messer Shimai