So last Friday was "Yokohama Day" which meant that we got to choose one of four places to visit and the center would pay our way in. After that we were free to wander about as we wished. Pretty nice! The four choices were the Yokohama Cultural Museum, the Yokohama Nautical Museum, the Yokohama Newspaper and Broadcasting Museum which were handily in ( Read more... )

Awesome Accordion Lady and her band were followed by a something with...tribal(?) influences. Dude on a drum with a lady chanting next to him. This was pretty random but I think they were saying they were influenced by Okinawan island music so sure, ok. What followed next can only be described as Japanese Tom Waits. Mostly it made me want to ( Read more... )

So Friday before last we had our midterm exam and absolutely no one felt silly calling it that even though it's only been three weeks. Really. After the exam, we were told we could watch a movie about a dude who went to be a cook on the South Pole, OR we could just go home. The movie actually didn't sound that uninteresting, but since talk of ( Read more... )

I meant to have this entry up much earlier but I had a lot of writing to do for class last week, not to mention studying for my mid-term exam, so the very thought of MOAR writing filled me with ennui. But that is done now so it's time to get caught up ( Read more... )

Asahi Strong Off tastes so horrible that you can't quite believe it and keep drinking it to make sure that it's as horrible as you think it is.

Prepare yourselves, dear readers, for tales so harrowing, so disturbing, so filled with me being stupid, that your hair will stand on end and your hand will rise as if of its own accord to smack me upside the head ( Read more... )

Ended up going back to book off and buying the book on Japanese people being secretly Jewish. I did not buy the Big Book of Pokemon Goddesses because it turned out that the image of it that I had in my head was actually an amalgam of several other books. One had the adorable little stat section but didn't have pictures, another had pictures and ( Read more... )

Things I did this weekend ( Read more... )

I got caught up indulging in completely failing to do any homework and it go late, so I'm just going to write a few lines about each beer ( Read more... )

Ah, Friday at last. For today's entry, I thought I'd actually talk a little about what exactly my daily schedule looks like ( Read more... )