A year ago if you had told me that I would soon find myself in Tokyo raucously singing and dancing to Ricky Martin in a karaoke room with a bunch of native Spanish speakers I would have said “Hey man! That’s crazy! No way!”
Last night I met up with Claudia and the other Spanish speakers I described a few posts ago, […]
Archive for September, 2006
Thanks duuuude, Danielle’s questions are next.
What’s the architecture of your building? I’ll post some pictures sometime, but it’s a 4 story building with 2 symmetrical sides of the building with a little open space in between. The doors open into the middle and the balconies look out over everything else. The lounge […]
“Who’s your daddy, and what does he do?”
Published September 28th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 4 CommentsFirst, some easy questions from Mom, then more a little later.
What is the weather like? About half the days I’ve been here so far have been cloudy, 1 has been rainy, and the other half have just been really nice. The hottest it’s gotten has been about 80 and the coldest was still not very cold, […]
Sooo, I didn’t post yesterday because my yesterday was so incredibly uneventful. I spent all of it sitting around the lounge here at Azalea House (where I live) trying to fix my computer. Once this proved useless I spent the rest of my day attempting to learn some Japanese. Interesting, no?
Today was more eventful and […]
There are a lot of really fun, extremely popular things in Japan that are vastly ignored or impossible to find in the United States. Karaoke places are one of these things. Purikura is another. Purikura (pronounced “poo-di-coo-da”) is basically just like an extension of photomachines in the united states. Sounds lame, right? Maybe? Well, here’s how it works.
You are […]
I really like this blog, and I think it’s a great way to let everybody know what’s going on in Tokyo, but I want to go ahead and apologize for the generalness of it all. I really wish I had time to send everybody long ,personal e-mails but life over here is gogogogogoogogoogoo. It’s completely and utterly different […]
Sooo, yesterday I met up with Claudia in Ikebukuro. We just started wandering down a street and before we had gone 10 minutes we saw a sign for a temple, how convenient! So we followed the signs to the temple and Claudia would ask people where it is sometimes, impressing me with her Japanese. The […]
Today I’m meeting up with Claudia in Ikebukuro to explore some more of Tokyo. Claudia, by the way, is the foreign exchange student from Barcelona. Spanish is her native language, as well as Catalan (the regional language of Spain). She also speaks french and English fluently, and Japanese much better than I. She wants to […]
I woke up early today and took a couple subways to Nerima where Moe helped me get my Alien Registration card necessary for opening a bank account and getting a cell phone. It wasn’t too difficult, actually, but afterwards we went to Ikebukuro and Moe helped me get a cell phone, which was considerably harder. Even with […]
I was greeted this morning right before I was leaving to go to Akihabara by the site of my lost luggage, woo! So all my stuff is in order and I have no excuse for being stinky now.
I really thought I would have trouble on the subway trying to find my way to Akihabara even […]
