Whoo, the week is finally over! Besides school, I haven't been doing anything important. Yesterday, a friend from ICU asked if I wanted to climb Mt. Fuji, but I don't have any of the proper clothes or anything, so I'll have to hold off on that until later. I did, however, see 4 sumos on the train on my way home today. One of them had a Bvlgari wallet tucked into his obi, which I thought was funny. Afterwards, I met up with Eunice so we could have lunch together. We went to this little hamburger (as in meat patty, not sandwich) restaurant called 'Pepper' that's by the station. Yummy yummy. Afterwards I went to visit her apartment (which is very pink and cute). She brought me an omiyage Hello Kitty strap from her trip to the Tanabata festival in Sendai. It's a special Sendai Tanabata Festival one. After that we went to the arcade to take purikura (sticky pictures) and play the taiko video game, which I made the high score list on, bwahahaha. She's going to give me the puri next time I see her, since they didn't have scissors at the arcade. The pictures above are actually the puri that the machine sends to your phone email, then I forwarded those to my computer email. Nifty, huh?
Tonight I just hung out with Aya. We walked around Kameido and visited Don Quixote, which is like Wal Mart, but with more things and higher quality. That store is insane! Clothes, designer items, food, alcohol, sports equipment, home goods, etc, etc, etc. I also went to Mister Doughnut for the first time, which was way better than in the states. I had the D.Pop, which is basically 6 donught holes in different flavors and tried the maccha donught, which was very green and gross looking, but tasty. We spent the rest of the night just chatting and watching tv. Barefoot Gen, an anime about Hiroshima/WW2, was apparently made into a drama and it's so sad...I can't really recommend it beccause it's so depressing, but that was interesting. There was also a variety show about how women stay fit and healthy. Apparently there is such thing as 'face yoga' which basically has a bunch of different 'face poses' that work your muscles. It's hilarious to watch, but judging from the before/after shots, might actually help keep people looking young. It looks kinda like the photo, but that face wasn't even the funniest of all the ones they showed. (I look like crap, but I thought it was hilarious. We were sitting there making the funniest faces.)
Tomorrow we're going to try to go to the hanabi taikai (fireworks show/gathering/thing). It's supposed to be the last one in the Tokyo area. Then later this month I'll be going to Kabuki with JLI and hopefully also to the International Taiko Contest with a friend from UCSD. That's the game plan anyway, later!
