Well we woke up at around 8.30am on saturday morning...in an attempt to do something with the day. First of we had a beautiful breakfast in the executive lounge of the Hilton on the 36th (or whatever) floor. OMG......I wanna be rich and live in Hilton hotels....We then went off to the Shinjuku park...and Martin discovered to his horror that it was covered i spiders that were building massive webs everywhere....I`ve never heard him babble so much in fear....we also discovered a flea market! Which seems to be happening every saturday or so at around noon and beyond. There was lots of random stuff and a lot of clothes really! It`s a brilliant thing to do when you`re leaving too..you can just go there, pay a small fee for the space and then sell all your stuff!
We then went off in search of the bus that supposidly goes from Shinjuku station to Numazu. It was pretty stressful. I did the whole "Hammond" thing (top gear) and compared symbols to each other....we walked in circles for about half an hour till someone pointed out to us that the station was BEHIND a particular building...that`s why we couldn`t find it!...well we got back anyways.
Fran was in and we decided to go for a meal together. It was an awesome place where we basically cooked the food ouselfves on a hotplate. It was the japanese version of pancakes, but with vegetables, egg, shrimp, avocado etc......awesomness to the max! After that we caught a cab to SpeakEZ , where there was a gig night going on. So I got to see all the other ALT`s again and meet a few more new ones too! The music was cool...apparently the guitarist likes jimi hendrix..a lot!
I met 2 guys who are actually from near brighton or have lived there! It`s such a small world!
I also met 2 cute japanese girls and we had some funny conversations about british accents and things along that line. At around 3 am we decided to go home, but get some stuff for breakfast on the way. We ended up chatting till 5 am in the morning.
I sent martin on his way back to hong kong, with his bag considerably lighter after my stuff was out of it (THANK YOU AGAIN!). We decided to make pancakes when I got back...so I got my first lesson in making american pancakes with syrup! I learnt fast and soon I was turning out mini japanese sized american pancakes! ohhhh yeah!!!!!! bring it on! I can add those to the (short) list of thing I can cook!
I then chilled a bit while eating my milka chocoalte (DAANKE!), and then went off in search of an internet cafe. I cycled on a japanese bike for the first time ever too! It took me like 5 minutes to figure out how to get the stand to fold in, and then cycling it was weird too. The bike is like a girls bike...you sit up straight..and I can`t stand and do my speed peddling thing....the suspension is also terrible...so any bumps are felt dramatically. Oh well...It was a day of firsts!
First day at school tomorrow!
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I now know why Martin has not called since he must have left Japan... the fear of spiders probably paralysed him to the extend that he lost his speech! :-)
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