First couple of days in Japan

Now, I honestly have no clue to begin. I've been in this place for a good 48 hours by now and I slept away about half of those (curse you Jetlag) so honestly, that's not a whole lot of hours; yet this country has already made quite the impression. When I finally arrived at Hirakata, I was already sort of lost, just as most the other international students. They then sent us on a tour around the neighborhood to shop some basic supplies so that we could get dinner and breakfast on our own. Apparently the Cafeteria that they have is delicious, but so far I haven't had much of a chance to try it. We ended up buying a bento-box that was really dirt-cheap considering how much food it was. Furthermore, it was delicious :D.
They hand out chopsticks in the store for free, so my very first Japanese phrase was succesfull in that I managed to get chopsticks.
Took the language placement exam, which was nothing less of a nightmare. However, the good news is that if I feel that I was placed in the wrong group at the end, I'm allowed to retake it in like 3 weeks, so I have some time to get into it. We'll see what they say. Fortunately, it wasn't just me who thought the exam was hard, pretty much everyone there, even the people who've studied the language for years said that it was surprisingly hard.

I'll get to know more about the host-family this weekend. But until then I'm living in a dorm with two other people. It's sort of crammed, but then again, besides for sleeping, I've spent like 2 hours in there so I don't really care.
Walked the entire day yesterday around Hirakata. Beautiful city. Went downtown to get some food together with a friend of mine's Speaking Partners. I doubt that I'll get one, but fortunately she hit it off with her partner, so we were a party of six that ended up eating together and checking out the stores and other things. They had an Arcade, which I hear are huge in Japan. This one had a couple of sections, but we just spent like 20 minutes there so I'll have to return there at some point to explore it. I found it rather amusing tho. I only saw like one section of it, and it was a tuesday night and of about the 25 people who were there, at least 3 or 4 of them were about 50+, something that I doubt I'd see in Europe or the States.
Well, other than eating great food and what not, I'm not gonna bother too much more with this now. It's early, and I need to head over to the school for more lovely orientation *sigh*.

Over-all though, So far, so good Kinda worried about small things, but on the larger scale, I'm really enjoying this
PS. Sorry about the lack of pictures. No-time and not enough pictures :D Sorry They will be there, promise