So, today was pretty relaxed. My back is still hurting me (which is kind of a concern, because in the past, the pain would have subsided by now – but at least it’s bearable), so I wanted to take it easy, yet again. Some of us in the program decided to go out for dinner. Finding a place for more than 3 or 4 people to eat at a time usually requires a lot of effort in the Mita area, but Olivia came through and thought of the curry place we’d eaten at a few days ago that had a large table in the front of the restaurant. We pretty much took up most of it, but at least the restaurant got a bunch of money from us. Who knows if they’ll let us do that again though!
It ended up being 10 of us, and I have a couple photos. Since I haven’t actually talked too much about the people I see on a semi-daily basis, I might as well do a little intro here.
Table / My Side
From the back to the front we have: Olivia (a good friend of mine who lives upstairs from me!), Christiana (who I only recently met, although she sits next to me in Chinese Business Law), me you probably know if you are at this page, Justin (who I started talking to on AIM well before classes started and who actually sits on the other side of me in Chinese Business Law), and Patrick (who I met after arriving but who cracks me up – best stories!).
Table / Other Side
This photo was taken without the flash, so it’s not as clear. But, from the back: Erin (who I have only hung out with a couple of times, but she spent a lot of time in Korea, so her perspective is always interesting), Becky (a girl I met since arriving – very nice and has been sick as well, so she has a lot of catching up to do), Becca (speaks a lot of Japanese – very handy to have at dinner :) – she was moving her head, so this is a terrible shot of her), Allen (Cool guy who lived up in Northern Japan for a long time, so also speaks Japanese), and Houston (Don’t ever believe a thing he says, but he’s hilarious! ;) )
Anyway, so that was my evening. We really just monopolized the hugest table in the restaurant and ate and talked. Then some of us went to a coffee shop for like 20 minutes, where we ran into another TUJ student and then headed home.
Tomorrow, a bunch of us are going to Kamakura, which is the ancient capital of Japan. There, we will check out a couple shrines and The Great Buddha and then head to Yokohama to visit the Chinatown. I’m really looking forward to it. I may go back there again in April for a festival and to see it once the flowers have started to spring up (hopefully).
Also, some people were going to go to the Ueno Zoo on Sunday, and I was going to join them, but now I see that the 27th is the last day that the Robot exhibit is going on at the Ueno Science Museum, so I may hit that instead (or also depending on time). I REALLY want to see that exhibit before it is gone. I wish it was staying longer so that David and/or Amey could see it, but I shouldn’t miss it if I have the opportunity to go.
P.S. Japan has every terrifying flavor of Kit Kat imaginable, and I broke down and finally purchased a weird flavor – Apple! It is actually pretty tasty. They love to mix fruit and chocolate here. :)
Anyway, ja mata!
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