Hello world,
So far so good here in the land of rising sun. The weather has been very interesting, just like back home in Davis... The past few days, however, have been really beautiful and it's been really comfortable at night. Clear skies, Cool temperature, bright moon. Tonight the wind started kicking up while me and my friend Ashley were in Shibuya hanging out and getting donuts (which by the way were freakin' delicious and made me slightly homesick).
The beautiful weather the past few days have made me want to go out and have a drink with some friends on Bakayama, but... I ended up staying in while others actually ended up going. I think it was time well spent though. Last night when they went, I stayed in and played Just Dance 4 with Chris, Amy, Shaw and Eric as well as this AWESOME Wii U game called Nintendo Land. Tonight when another group went to Bakayama I stayed back and watched the latest episode of Korra and a "scary" movie (Resident Evil 1. More action than scariness) with Amy and Dana. I had a can of Strong anyways (Basically a 8% Alcohol by volume version of Mike's Hard) so it was pretty lax. AND DANA MADE ME AND AMY WONTON SOUP!!! Yeah... it was delicious... and it had that home-made feel to it so it was awesome. AWESOME.
Anyways, taking it back a notch to the beginning of today, I woke up today at about 2:00pm after a much needed sleeping in. I was thinking about going to Saitama (Pretty damn far away) to watch a 2 hour firework show in excahnge for ~$30 transportation money but I decided against it. Ashley knocked on my door to see what my plan was and I told her I wasn't going... she didn't really know anyone else who was going so she decided to stick back home too. Our friend Hiro (Also in UCAEP) was hosting it since he was going with a friend. While we talked about potential plans, Eric came out of his room and we talked for a bit and decided to have some Ramen for lunch at Gutara (our school's favorite). While eating our freakin' foodgasmic Ramen Ashley and I decdied to go to Shibuya to stop by the Krispy Kreme there, stop by an arcade, and walk around with the possibility of going to a awesome 100Y Sushi Place (which we didn't end up doing.)
By about 4:00pm we headed to Shibuya and went straight to Krispy Kreme. IT....WAS....AWESOME!! I was so happy to see an AWESOME store of an AWESOME food that I love to eat... DONUTS! I'm pretty sure I made like a squeal of excitement coming into the store because I couldn't wait. They had it all! Original Glazed, Old Fashioned, etc. but with a twist. Ashley ordered 1 Original Glazed (160Y) and I got 1 Original Glazed and -- wait for it -- A GREEN TEA FLAVORED OLD FASHIONED DONUT! Both of them were sooooooo good my mouth was watering... it might have been just because I hadn't had one in a while, but it tasted even better than the ones back home. Actually, I don't think they have Green Tea Oldfashioned anyways, so that was a big plus.
After that we looked for Taito arcade to play / win some stuff. When we got there we played but didn't win squat. I busted $5 trying to get this stupid Shingeki no Kyojin poster and Ashley busted about $12 on this pillow thing (I think) and this pink Alpaca (which she got after 7 tries).
After that, we basically walked around and explored the hell out of Shibuya. We went from alleyway to alleyway (none of which are dark and sketch btw) and looked at all the delicious restaurants that we were passing by. From memory I beleive we passed by like 2 100Y Sushi places, like 5 Ramen places, 2 Katsu places, 2 Donburi places, etc. Neither of us were hungry since we stuffed our faces during lunch so we just kept walking. We stopped by a petstore which I had stopped by earlier in either late August or September and took some awesome cute photos of the cats and dogs who were forced to live in tiny glass boxes. After that photoshoot, we went and stopped by some clothing stores like Uniqlo and some other places.... I am currently looking for a hat (to tame my ever-growing head of hair) since I don't want to get a haircut and also a nice polo since I need one for the internship (but I really could just wear my button-ups)...hmm, after that we tried finding this nice store called Tokyu Hands...but failed miserably. Instead we ended up at this up-scale mall-type thing pretty close to the station which was sort of a grocery store? then it turned into a mall thing, and after climbing some escalters we got a really good view of the Shibuya Crosswalk (BUSIEST CROSSWALK IN THE WORLD) and took some awesome videos. After that I think we just walked aroud and explored for a bit before taking the train home at around 8:30pm.
Like I said before, me, Amy, and Dana watched Resident Evil and Korra afterwards and then after that I went back to my room to do this!
It's 2:36AM now on 10/13/2013 so I think I should go to sleep soon. I'm going to Akihabara tomorrow morning with some peeps at 11:30am so...yeah... gotta wake up. In conclusion though, this day was pretty awesome. Out of everything we did, I think my highlight HAD to be the donuts. Sadly though, the donuts are quite expensive here. The original glazed was 160Y ($1.60) and a dozen is 1600Y ($16.00) but don't be surprised if I start posting pictures of the donuts and splitting a dozen with someone because they were awefully good (ESPECIALLY THE GREEN TEA OLD FASHIONED!!! WEOIFJWOEIJ)
OH! We also passed by Katsuya (Katsu Restaurant) which I REALLY want to return to because I haven't had katsu at a restaurant yet... so there's that.
I LOVE Shibuya. It reminds me of NYC which I also really enjoyed. It's lively and has tons of things to do. I will definitely be returning here in the last 2 months I have in Japan.
P.S. I'm still enjoying Japan if you couldn't tell, so you all don't need to worry :)
Hope you're enjoying my blog posts! If nothing else, it'll be a good memory to look back on when I'm home. (That's actually what motivated me to write my post tonight).
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