楽しかった！ It Was Fun!

It has been ridiculously hard to even find a moment to rest, let alone to write a post with all that has been going on, there is not enough time in the day! so here go's a summery of some of the more memorable things.

last week we took our first walk from Meiji Gakuin International Student Housing (MISH) to Meiji Gakuin University (Meigaku). The walk is an hour long, when walking at a constant pace. Very long distance. At the university we met our "Buddies," amazing Meigaku students who joined a program to show us around. My buddies are Muto Hiroyoshi, Yamazaki Kaori, and Urara, who's last name I still do not know. Muto is the leader of the group and a very fun guy, the two girls are quite shy but very sweet. All of the other buddies that I met were amazing as well.


On Friday night I believe, many students from the UC got toghether and we went to a "Nomihoudai-Tabehoudai-Utaihoudai" or All you can eat drink and sing bar for three hours. It was amazing fun. We drank ridiculous amounts of alchohol and did Karaoke in both English and Japanese.

On saturday we made a trip to the Chinatown in Yokohama. It was absolutely huge. We ate dinner there and looked around before moving on to downtown Yokohama, where we rode the Cosmo clock, which is a big ferris wheel on the bay next to Landmark tower, the tallest building in Japan. We almost didn't get to ride the ferris wheel, we got there (ran there more like it) with minutes to spare.

China Town


Yokohama Bay Side


View From Cosmo Clock of Landmark Tower

Today, Sunday we made a trip to a Matsuri at a university near Ueno Station where we ate great Neapolitan pasta, and watched traditional Japanese dancing. All the pics of today's trip are on facebook so look there to see them :D

The dance at the Matsuri...Enjoy!

After that we went to harajuku. There was many shops with many cloths, all strange. It wasn't as great as I feel it is made out to be...it's just a place to buy fashionable cloths, not really my thing. We ran into a traveling shrine which was really nice though. The people that dress up there don't like you to take there pictures, wtf.

We then made our way on foot to the Meiji Jingu shrine which is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the Meiji Emperor. It was very extravegent and the wilderness was very beuatiful. I made an offering to the shirne made a prayer and then we made our way back home.

旅もう一回にしょ
Time for another adventure
Cary