around 5:30PM or so, john and i headed to the bus stop near school to get to shibuya. while waiting for the bus, a little old lady sat down next to us and started to talk in english. i learned so much about her in that 15min, wow. hehe. her daughter went to this country, etc. while she studied conversational english for 5 years, etc. then we ( Read more... )

last night was cool. studied in my room while takumi was there with me drawing pictures and such. nice ( Read more... )

morning started off crappy, eh whatever. so i called alicia and we hung out for a few hours in harajuku. there were soo many foreigners there, geez.. since i have been living here for a few months and im not on a tourist visa, it feels weird seeing tons and tons of random old american people with their fanny-packs, large cameras around their necks ( Read more... )

well the day started off crappy. i was making good time though before school - just didnt get a lot of sleep last night. somewhere along the way (probaby yesturday) i lost my makeup pen, which upset me cause i was already kinda grumpy anyway. got to japanese class and things got a little better - cause we did listening comprehension for the whole ( Read more... )

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after class at 12:30 headed over to the area before roppongi to meet up with hatsui - she is tomita sensei's friend (my akron u japanese teacher's friend), and wanted us to meet. hatsui met tomita sensei in akron, and she lived there for 4 years. we found each other and walked a ways into roppongi for the restaurant, it was nice. the rest. is ( Read more... )

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after class i met up with junko - an advisor for my school. we caught a cab to roppongi and went to this little venue where a japanese coverband of the beatles frequently plays. the whole area is all decked out in everything beatles, and so is the menu. junko treated me for the night (thank you so much!) and my first drink was a pineapple alch. ( Read more... )

as of Sept 23rd, i am offically aunt miechelle to 2 baby girls!! madeline and emily, very very cute! (pics coming soon!)

that is SO COOL! so excited

i got pics today, so happy!

-me

took a while to get there by train but finally got to the area of chiba. the tgs is freaking huge! it took up 3 big buildings filled with booths, displays, and big screens all promoting new games, systems, boot babes, etc. i bumped into a bunch of kids from school at random points throughout the day, but since it was soo crowded - it was extremely ( Read more... )