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お久しぶり
Ohisashiburi　
I am currently still in Japan.
Or I have been for the past month. Visiting relatives, this and that. And my grandpa had to sell/take care of a house he had over here.
I am in Hiroshima, but tomorrow I am going to go visit my uncle in Tokyo for the rest of the week.
Gah, even though I am taking the Nozomi express it still will take around 4 hours is what it looks like.

I am kind of home sick. And my English has gone to hell, mainly because I haven't been using it besides when conversing with my grandpa, I can still type it for the most part, but speaking I switch between Japanese occassionally, or I screw something up. My grandpa likes to tell stories, and he tells them over and over again, first during the tour in English, and now I am hearing them again and again in Japanese. -.-;; I have some hogen issues too...like I don't know the hyojungo equivelent for some words, or I don't recogniz Hiroshimaben.

On a high note, I got to go into Nishi Hong(w)anji with my temple (from the USA) into a 'restricted area,' hakamairi at my family's grave, Disney Sea day, wasted 1000￥ calling home for around 6 minutes, the usual.
Which reminds me, I need to get phonecard.

Anyways, its overall been pretty cool, and I am compiling photo stuffs for when I get back if anyone happens to be interested.

So its like 12:36 here, and I need to get to bed, because my aunt is worried about me falling asleep on the train and getting mugged or something...but a lot of people here are telling me to be cautious when I go to Tokyo...though I was there a month ago during our tour.

Anyways, now I am just rambling , so time to get going.
Later! ☆Update:
So today (2006.8.7) we wandered from my uncle's apartment to Akihabara. They like maids costumes. A whole lot.
And its pretty stupid looking in my opinion. But anyways. Being the strange person I am, I collect those little kleenex packages and uchiwa they hand out on the street.
My total so far is about 10 differernt kleenex packets and 3 round fans. So to start, we walked around Akihabara looking for stores with interesting things. There are a lot of cheap things there that foreigners can buy for much cheaper than in their home country ("Duty Free"). After some time, we got hungry so we wandered over to a famous ramenya called 'Jangara' I think. It had Kyushu ramen or summat...but it was very delicious and well worth the wait to enter the "hole in the wall" restaurant. Anyhow, after we wander over to a large electronic store chain called Yodobashi Camera (there is also a large location in Osaka close to the Hanshin&Hankyu department stores). I decided that I was going to buy a DS Lite in Japan as there are different colors, free region, and also so I could play Japanese games. Yodobashi camera was crazy; there were lines everywhere for the Nintendo DS Lite. We asked around and the guy said that it would not last past the end of the day because they just got restocked. So after waiting for an hour I finally got one and we headed off for sight seeing/ window shopping in Harajuku District.

Harajuku was freakiiiiiing crazy. There were teenagers everywhere, and probably the most foreigners (besides me). (Except now I blend in because I bought a ton of close here because they fit me better, so yeah...) My cousin Souma was hungry so my aunt took him to Lotteria to get some food while we went to the department store Omote Sando Hills. It was like being in a boutique　mall...like, I could probably buy two items from the area if I used all the money that I had brought to Japan...that kind of expensive. After walking through there we decided to go stop and get a drink too and continue towards a hondori type area called 'Takeshita' Its like walking in a human traffic jam, with a ton of gothic lolitas and yamaba(sp?)/ganguro and all different types of people. I saw some weird Americans sitting around with a sign that said "English Practice 5 Minutes." Which was strange but whatever. After not finding much interesting in Harajuku we backtracked to the Shibuya district.

This district was pretty exciting, with a ton of stores and huge buildings. We were all really tired by this time, so we took a peek at the Paruko / Parco department store or whatever it is, and then tried to make our way back to Akihabara, where my uncle was parked.
I have some cool pictures to show,　but my uncles card reader doesn't read Memory Stick Duo, so I have to wait until I am home. Time to go to bed, its almost midnight!

Update II: I just got home the other day. D:
I miss my relatives and Japan already.

Really?! Was it good?? I been told that the actor they chose for L didn't really give that L feeling, was that true? surprised

Same! I haven't read the manga but I heard it's good and I saw the trailer, and it looks good! I bet it won't be in English here so I'm gonna order it from Japan when it comes out on DVD! biggrin

lol, is that the same guy as nanahara from battle royale? now i want to see it. xd looks interesting. that CG shinigami freaks me out though... in a creepy way, not a scary way... gonk

Mugged in Tokyo? I have been all over the world by myself and I felt safer in Tokyo then in almost any other city I have ever been in.

I just came back from Japan on monday, and having been over there for a cumulative 5 weeks over the past 13 months, I must say that I feel much safer in Japan than in any other part of the world. and i Heard about the Deathnote Movie, and one of my trip-mates went and saw it and i am soo jealous for him.

Japan is far more safer than the US, but there are areas where you have to be careful. My aunt is just over protective I think. But she went to Hokkaido today for a birthday thing, so I currently am in Tokyo at the moment. We shall see how it goes.

I just got back.

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