So, I was just walking around Shibuya, as I tend to do after school for a bit just because it’s fun, and then I noticed next to me that they were filming a TV variety show starring Hamada Britney, who’s famous for being highly-gal fashion, a comic author, a model, as well as a (rich) [...]
I have some free time so I figured I’d write a quick update on my blog. And by free time, I of course mean it’s about 1:30am and as I’m up late already, I figured I’d write a blog post. I started my second term of school on Tuesday. Though Tuesday was an opening orientation, [...]
Today, I experienced my first major earthquake. It occurred in Shizuoka, and while I don’t know where that is in Japan it was strong enough to register as 6.5 and to seem pretty darn scary when it struck at 5am this morning. My phone, which has an earthquake alarm mailing system, sent me an email [...]
So. I went and saw Harry Potter 6. Again. With friends. After school the other day and they had a trailer for the upcoming “Hachi” movie. They were just so different it surprised me (especially the music). It really shows the difference in the cultures (that sounds lame, i know) US: (Look below picture for [...]
At the Gundam exhibit, there was a bug house. (I want to say Hercules Beetle?) I don’t particularily like bugs. The sign applied to a big plastic beetle. This is how the conversation between me and the bug hut man went (in Japanese): Man: Do you want to the hold the [large] bug [I was [...]
Yesterday (Wait not the day before yesterday) I went to the giant Gundam they set up in Tokyo for the summer. It was very large. And gundam-y. I guess. The sun was right behind it so getting pictures of it was very difficult. The line was long so we didn’t wait to go touch it’s [...]
