Costco

I found it, but it takes me about 40 minutes to get there. This is important only because it's the only place I have found tortilla chips, tortillas, and black beans. Last night I made delicious guacamole to go with my chips. My quality of life has increased seven fold now that I can potentially make and eat delicious Mexican food.

food, or lack there of

umm..so you guys are probably going to have to fatten me up when i get back. let's just leave it at that. i'm not going to feel bad about eating anything after living here.

p.s. last night i paid 20$ for one game of bowling--wtf japan, god

culture shock

i think i might be over it already?

god

Today I mooched off of a friend's field trip and got to see pretty much all of the famous Tokyo museums in the part of Tokyo called Ueno. The coolest thing I saw was probably this guy. He's an Egyptian mummy of course.

After viewing at least four different museums, we headed to Harajuku, the part of Tokyo known for crazy-clothes wearing people.


Then we walked to Shibuya to shop and walk around. I found a Japanese copy of Vice at American Apparel. We went to Tower Records--which I wasn't expecting much from, but found such artists as Crystal Castles, the Death Set, and Yelle (which I purchased). The top floor book store was even more impressive--you can find things here that I mail-ordered in America. Here, also, in Shibuya I saw this with mine own eyes: the Bape Store

We ate dinner at an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet and I got full for the first time this week. This was basically the longest day ever as we were downtown for nearly 14 hours. God.

Lists

Likes:
-onigiri, especially handmade(rice balls--note: learn how to make while here)
-trains
-Uniqlo
-cell phones
-super cheap food
-going new places
-Skype

Dislikes:
-baby eels or baby fish in my onigiri
-super small (read: "Japanese-sized") portions
-fish flakes(or the so-called "dancing fish" on my vegetarian food)
-trains
-being crowded and pushed against 10 people i don't know at the same time on any kind of transportation system
-being hungry
-being tired
-being stared at because i'm white
-cell phones
-no free refills
-hanging laundry to dry (oh god, i know it saves energy, but how many of you guys would voluntarily do it?)

Hey, i'm still having a good time, i'm just really really tired right now.

:(

Being far away from Kyle sucks ballzzzz man. :(

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I learned how to say "infrared" in Japanese this weekend. Most Japanese phones have infrared communication devices. Oh yes.