I almost forgot about this blog!! I've been meaning to go through all of my japan pictures and doing a post every few days. Every picture has a story. I want to tell them all!! I'm really busy with graduation stuff, but as soon as thats taken care of there will be a FLOOD.

I plan on going back to japan sometime this or next year depending on my work situation. Haha if I fail at finding decent jobs in the US I might go back as a teacher for a bit too.

Right now I'm sitting in the painting/watercolor classroom. So bored! I shouldn't be though, since I need to work on a painting and write an essay! Its so cold in here though, even though I bought a blanket. I wish they wouldn't use the AC even though its cold outside. That's one thing I definitely miss about Japan. It's always so warm out there.

Anyway, I'm gonna force my way through this essay and then work on that painting. Hopefully I can finish it by the end of this week and have another one started. I have so many ideas and not nearly enough time to get them all done.

my car!

Man money money moneyyy! I keep on spending too much money recently! I need to save. Especially since america is a tons cheaper than japan!

Anyway, someone hit my car last night! I don't know his real name, but everyone in town knows him. I'll have to find out soon. I gotta call some auto repair places while at work today to get this whole thing sorted out. lameeee

then I gotta find out about a warranty repair for my camera.

After that I gotta figure out about warranty for my suitcase.

work work work... money money money

I'm back in the US, if only for a little while. I have to finish up this final semester of college, then I'm off into the real world! No grad school for me for now! I'm thinking of going back to Japan or perhaps to Korea to study animation from the masters!! I'll have to get some of that work ethic east asia is famous for!

I've been here for about a week but I've been too busy going to class then crashing on my sister's couch. Its insane how many of my friends have changed in these past 9 months.

I'm moving into my friend's house today! I will post pics!

I'll do my best to update this every few days or so. For reals! Its one of my new year resolutions!

What a weekend!

Oh man sorry I've been too lazy to update! I'm just full of laziness and always tired from all of the rad stuff I'm doing here. As always I will make a promise to update this blog on a regular basis. My time here is ticking down and I really want to be able to look back at this stuff fondly!

Anyway to start off friday! I went and ate lunch with my friend Leela from australia. We were meeting to discuss the prodject thatshe wanted me to help her with. I was supposed to go to Harajuku and take pictures for the new Spring lineup for H.Naoto. So I go there around 3:40 ( I was supposed to be there by 4). And I ask them about the H.Naoto show and the guy seems confused. So I just go to the desk and ask the receptionist. She says the show's at 7. I tell Leela and she sends me a confused message saying that her email said it was supposed to be 4. So I just wander around harajuku for a bit until the show starts. I get into line and notice that alot of people are not really the 'h.naoto' crowd and am like 'okk.... but I've never been to a fashion show anyway' haha

So I go to the show take pics, take notes. They didn't give me a press pass so I had kinda crappy seats. and the whole time I'm like 'Wow, H.Naoto really has changed' Leela shows up and we watch it till the end. After the show she goes and talks to one of the designers and is talking about H.Naoto. He is completley confused and at that point he's like 'We are Fur Fur' Haha We totally crashed the wrong show!


Anywhoo here are some pics for the Spring and Summer 2011 Fur Fur line. Click for full view

From The atmosphere was really nice!

From Cute outfits right?!

After the mixup with all of the fashion we decided to go to the Decadence bar and chill with a DJ who is Mikaru from Dio. I didn't know who he was but he seemed to have alot of foreign fans haha. He had insane hair!! I met alot of cross dresser dudes and a guy from the military! Now I can go and enjoy some taco bell! ;___; I also ran into a girl I used to work with at the maid cafe! Tokyo is truly a village sometimes!

From OMG his hair. WTF LOL

I had a ton of fun at Japan Tent Its a program that places college exchange students with host families so that they can experience japanese culture in the same way that a japanese person would.

To get to Ishikawa I had to take a night bus with other people leaving from Tokyo. I'm retarded so I thought that the departure time was the time that we had to meet up. On my way there I get a message from my friend saying that the meeting time was one hour ahead! I was totally late! I actually got confused about how to get out of the station once I arrived and the Japan Tent people called me. I was totally freaking out the entire way there, especially since I've never been to Tokyo station. I was worried that the bus would leave without me. But luckily I wasn't the only person late and arrived around 11:05. The bus didn't leave without anyone so the departure changed to midnight. LOL I'm glad that everyone didn't have to wait on only me!

The bus ride to Ishikawa was about 8hours long and the bus stopped every 2 hours for smoke breaks and potty breaks I guess so I didn't get to sleep very well. I talked to alot of different people there!

When we finally got there they had a bunch of opening ceremony speeches and stuff like that. TBH most people were exhausted so many people were sleeping. Then they made us watch a movie called Sakura Sakura. The production values weren't so high so the acting was a little off. I think it was 3 hours long but I slept through it.

After that we finally went to our host families. I was worried at first because the grandma seemed very cold and distant towards me. Very japanese quiet and reserved. She was really very nice though, she always bought me food and gifts and even called me this morning to make sure that I made it back on time. Their house was sooo big. It was one of those really old traditional japanese houses. Their job was at a traditional japanese restaurant where they wore kimonos! I told them that I liked sushi and I swear every meal I ate there was sushi. It was insane. Haha they tried everything they could to make sure that I was very comfortable. <3

The second family was in Kanazawa. The city is bigger. They lived in a 2 bedroom apartment with 3 kids. The feeling was alot different! They were alot younger and usually had to work so I didn't really get to do anything too interesting. This time I had a chinese girl from shanghai also stay in the homestay with me. I was glad to have someone to stay with so that I could actually talk/do stuff. We went to the kanazawa castle and the park. We also went shopping and I got a totally cute outfit!

Japan tent was a bunch of fun. Def something that I reccomend to other exchange students in japan. Its free! Seriously I had 12,000 yen before I left and maybe only 10,000 afterwards because I bought some clothes. 3 days after being back in tokyo, its only 4000. HAHA

The host club was pretty fun! First we met up at Kabukicho and then went to a restuarant to pregame. I'm not sure why we pregamed when host clubs are usually all you can drink, but it was fun anyway. I ate some cake! It was delicious! Then we wandered around the shady red light district in search of some boyssssss. We found some that had a club for 1000 yen an hour so we decided to go there.



That one was alot better than the one I went to last time. Pretty much all of the guys had cool hair and outfits and were very nice to us. I was really surprised! They rotated guys pretty often and all of them made good conversation even though my japanese is somewhat limited. I drank alootttt that night haha. I wasn't completely wasted but I was getting to the point where I thought I would start forgetting stuff. It was a fun night!



So after that I decided I needed to stop spending money. I stayed inside for a few days and studied kanji while watching a buttload of anime. So far I've watched all of Code Geass and the Black Rock Shooter OVA.

And today I went with my friends to go see Inception. It was a pretty sweet movie! A++ would watch again!

I'm gonna start watching Kino no Tabi (Kino's adventure) soon and study more kanji! I've got a lesson tomorrow too!