Saturday, April 9, 2005

   I'm Back
Hehe! Well hello everyone! I'm back from Japan... well, technically I got back on March 29, but have been overloaded with school work.
But ANYWAY... Japan is AWESOME!!!! I was there for two weeks and I want to go back sooo bad. I really felt at home there (besides the fact that I couldn't understand much of what people were saying....) ^^ One day, I got to go to Tokyo with my host family's two daughters. (They are so cool! Love ya, Megumi and Yurika!!) Rode the trains and subway to see the Shibuya 109, Tokyo Tower and Asakusa. Yeah, it was cool. A mini X tour with the 109 and Tower! ^_^ We went to Asakusa in the evening. It was so pretty!
About half the time, i stayed with an American missionary family there. The other half was spent with my Japanese host family. They live in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki-ken.
Bought a BUNCH of manga! Seriously cheap in Japan. Brand new is about 500 yen! That's about $5!! Then, if you go to a discount shop, it's only 50-100 yen. Sugoi, ne?!! Bought nearly all of X, FMA ani-manga, Fruits Basket, Fushigi Yuugi, NANA (really big in Japan right now), and some gifts for friends... ^_^ Oh!! At that discount shop, they had CDs for 280 yen! ACK!! SOOO cheap! Bought some TWO-MIX, Glay, an X chara profile... And L'arc~en~ciel full price. YAY!!!
100 yen shops in Japan are cool. Nearly everything is 100 yen, and it's really good stuff. Got a bunch of dishes and other stuff at those. Everything I got from the shops were paid for me by the people I went with. The Japanese are REALLY into gift giving!! It's hard to out-serve them. I felt kinda bad about that. One lady (she was really "traditional" and did a tea ceremony for me and all...) gave me tabi socks, a haori and sandals!! GAVE me!! I can't believe it. Sooooo awesome! I got to try on a kimono at her house, too! It was cool. ^_^ She took me to a bath house, too. Yeah, public* bath house. It really wasn't bad, though. Got really dizzy--the water was so hot!

Well, that's all I'm gonna write today. Maybe more later, if you want! ^_^ message me if you'd like to talk about Japan, etc... Or e-mail... ^_^
Bai-bai!
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