it keeps getting closer and closer to when i can go home to see kyle and all of my friends! i miss them all so much. everyone's going to have new houses, mostly, too, which is exciting.

there's pretty much only two weeks left here. i've been out of it because the action is non-stop. i'll probably be out of it the rest of my time here.

on friday i went to see my friend jula, her japanese boyfriend hide[hee-day](who reminds me of a japanese garth from wayne's world), and some of her friends. we went to izakaya(japanese pub) and had delicious food and all you can drink and then went to karaoke for an hour or two, again with all you can drink before i had to catch last train around 1145 :(.

saturday i woke up to visit ghibli museum to look at totoros all day. i fulfilled my dream of going to a mexican restaurant(supposedly the only one in tokyo. we had to wait for an hour to get in.) in the evening and was happy.


before i leave japan i'd been wanting to drink beers by a river. today i got to drink beers IN a river. i went to hang out with jula, hide, and friends at the futakotamagawa river that i cross all the time on the train on the way to tokyo. everyone brought inner tubes and someone was kind enough to bring one for me. we floated down the river for a good 3-4 hours, not without a few beers and capsizes, before we got out and took took a bus back to the station where we had put our stuff in lockers. we lost two phones to water damage (thankfully not mine). it was a totally awesome way to spend my sunday.

god i need sleep and to write papers, but unfortunately one doesn't really equal the other.