one paper and four days left
well, i just finished my last in-class final, which means i have just about as much humor in me right now as a recent adam sandler movie. which is to say, NONE.
this last weekend and week is a bittersweet one. i am excited to go home, for my friends, family and party. and burritos. but, there are many people and places i know i'll miss here and i know i'm going to be frustrated by a lot of things American.
last friday, we had one last hurrah at Y's bar, and our Japanese sensei and most of our class came. it was really the best time i've had there. let's see your profs in the states get trashed with you!
level 3 baby!
the best part was watching several of my fellow classmates get trashed and hit on our poor sensei. one guy comes up, red in the face and slurred in the speech and says to her in japanese: "if you were just a little younger, i'd totally be into you." and another classmate of mine, who is notorious for his playing of asian women, spent a good hour flirting with her and putting his hand on her back. he has a line he's famous for that he's usually "hazukashii" (shy) but that he can talk easily with ________insert girl here, and he used it on the TEACHER! hahahaha!
me and reika brought the hotness. i'm gonna miss her so much!
seiya, this girl who i really like but can never remember her name and me:
lars, in beater and aviators, looking far more texan than he ever should:
bridgid and i put the Y in fryndship and in Y's.
sayori (in blue kimono), her friends and me. one of these pictures is not like the other...
mina, me, town, and reika. the two hot and way smarter korean girls in my classes. damn asian students!
then, we went to karaoke all night, which turns out, there is a too-long length of time to sit in a box and sing off-key. it's called from 12pm-5am!
the next day, i went to akihabara to pick up some souvenirs, and kenji wrangled me up to his place to hang out and go to kamakura the next day. i went with him, his swedish friend karen, who was the epitome of hot blonde swedish girl and vivian, a fellow intern of his from china.
kamakura is home to one of the country's many giant buddhas and lots of great temples. but then again, where in japan isn't?
tourist tomita:
little buddhas everywhere!
this one was rad, because we went into a cave, and there were buddhas carved into the cave walls, and i had to crouch to walk around. but maybe that's because i'm a giant white person.
me, kenji, karen and vivian outside of the great kannon temple:
these fish, in the middle of the sacred tranquil temple garden, were being very sexually suggestive, as kenji just had to point out in a loud voice:
then we walked on to the daibutsu, or big buddha. this has to be the coolest cultural thing i've seen in japan, and i'm really glad i made it down there to see!
he's got big shoes to fill:
then, i stopped off in yokohama on the way back to tokyo for a huge fireworks festival. i was supposed to meet aaron, but yokohama was so balls-crowded that our cell phone service, au, shut down completely, and i couldn't reach him. hot and crowded were the words for that. but the fireworks were amazing. think american grand finale times 5 for an hour.
well, i'm home at 12:48pm on 23 july! four days stand between me and a big party which everyone should come to!
this last weekend and week is a bittersweet one. i am excited to go home, for my friends, family and party. and burritos. but, there are many people and places i know i'll miss here and i know i'm going to be frustrated by a lot of things American.
last friday, we had one last hurrah at Y's bar, and our Japanese sensei and most of our class came. it was really the best time i've had there. let's see your profs in the states get trashed with you!
level 3 baby!
the best part was watching several of my fellow classmates get trashed and hit on our poor sensei. one guy comes up, red in the face and slurred in the speech and says to her in japanese: "if you were just a little younger, i'd totally be into you." and another classmate of mine, who is notorious for his playing of asian women, spent a good hour flirting with her and putting his hand on her back. he has a line he's famous for that he's usually "hazukashii" (shy) but that he can talk easily with ________insert girl here, and he used it on the TEACHER! hahahaha!
me and reika brought the hotness. i'm gonna miss her so much!
seiya, this girl who i really like but can never remember her name and me:
lars, in beater and aviators, looking far more texan than he ever should:
bridgid and i put the Y in fryndship and in Y's.
sayori (in blue kimono), her friends and me. one of these pictures is not like the other...
mina, me, town, and reika. the two hot and way smarter korean girls in my classes. damn asian students!
then, we went to karaoke all night, which turns out, there is a too-long length of time to sit in a box and sing off-key. it's called from 12pm-5am!
the next day, i went to akihabara to pick up some souvenirs, and kenji wrangled me up to his place to hang out and go to kamakura the next day. i went with him, his swedish friend karen, who was the epitome of hot blonde swedish girl and vivian, a fellow intern of his from china.
kamakura is home to one of the country's many giant buddhas and lots of great temples. but then again, where in japan isn't?
tourist tomita:
little buddhas everywhere!
this one was rad, because we went into a cave, and there were buddhas carved into the cave walls, and i had to crouch to walk around. but maybe that's because i'm a giant white person.
me, kenji, karen and vivian outside of the great kannon temple:
these fish, in the middle of the sacred tranquil temple garden, were being very sexually suggestive, as kenji just had to point out in a loud voice:
then we walked on to the daibutsu, or big buddha. this has to be the coolest cultural thing i've seen in japan, and i'm really glad i made it down there to see!
he's got big shoes to fill:
then, i stopped off in yokohama on the way back to tokyo for a huge fireworks festival. i was supposed to meet aaron, but yokohama was so balls-crowded that our cell phone service, au, shut down completely, and i couldn't reach him. hot and crowded were the words for that. but the fireworks were amazing. think american grand finale times 5 for an hour.
well, i'm home at 12:48pm on 23 july! four days stand between me and a big party which everyone should come to!