Japan part II
So February started out pretty shittily.
After I went to the concert with Aaron, when we got back to the dorm that night his phone had gotten stolen and he didn't realize it was gone until the morning. There were two people staying in the building as guests of one of the other students there, and we suspected them (still do). Somehow I got accused (those people accused me, go figure), and it really upset me because I wasn't sure how many people had heard this or anything and I got super paranoid and thought everyone hated me. So I was depressed for like a solid week and a half, maybe two weeks, before I talked to people and realized I was being a faggot.
For Valentines I made Aaron chocolates and I gave them to him a week early because he was upset about a multitude of things and I wanted to make him feel better. Then the day before valentines I told him I was attracted to him (via text because I am a wuss), and he ignored it. It kinda hurt my feelings, but I eventually confronted him about it and he was just like "I didn't know how to respond, sorry." Ouch. Whatever, I left him alone and he avoided me for like a week, then started talking to me again out of the blue.
I ALSO WENT TO THE GHIBLI MUSEUM. I almost forgot I was still in Japan for a sec. The Ghibli Museum was absolutely magical~ The short film they showed us was so fucking cute too. I also got to eat BUKKAKE UDON that day, just to say I got bukkake udon. It's just fucking udon with some kind of meat I don't remember now (wow it would really have helped for me to document Japan shit while I was actually there).
I was going to go to some Lolita event with my friend Jen, but it happened to be the day we went to the Ghibli museum (started at midnight) and we were too fucking pooped to go haha. I was also meeting up with some Japanese friends the next morning and I didn't want to feel like absolute shit from staying up until 5am.
On that note, I happened to make friends with two otaku girls that happened to like lolita! My friend Gabby and I met them when we went to some international party in Ebisu. She wanted to go to one of them and I kinda gave her fair warning that they were full of creepy old men, but she wanted to meet some Japaneses. Hooooly shit was it full of creepy old men, only this time creepy old white dudes.
I met the two Japanese girls because one of them was wearing some kind of gouk-looking dress. I complimented her on it and she invited me to meet her friend. We talked with them and it was kinda awkward, because of the environment and language barrier I guess. But the poor girls were getting harassed by old drunk British men. :(
They ended up leaving, and then we left shortly after and met them again at the elevator. We walked with them to Ebisu station and this drunk ass mofo from the party is trying to talk to us. He asked me if I was British and I was like "Nope." "American?" "Yeah" and then he started speaking spanish at me! WHAT THE FUCK "UHHH I don't speak Spanish" Then he tried talking to Mai (the friend of the girl I complimented, Mizuho) and he was like "So are you Chinese?" and she looks at him and is like "What do you THINK?" I have never lold harder.
But when we hung out with them a second time, they definitely opened up more. Tooootally otaku though haha, but I love it. They like butler cafes and Mizuho is a fujoshi. I think I had the best luck among my nerdy friends there in terms of making Japanese friends haha. I signed up for the language partner program with Temple and the girl I ended up making friends with was a manga otaku.
On a separate note, my knees have been super sore for the past week. I think it has to do with the fact that I went from walking and standing a lot over there to sitting around all the time here. I went biking today to try and give my legs a little exercise (my knees don't hurt when I'm walking or standing). I ended up biking 7 miles! I was trying to ride to the Asian market in my town but I ended up running out of sidewalk before I got there.
Also, all these "transformation" posts on egl make me want to invest in better makeup supplies.
After I went to the concert with Aaron, when we got back to the dorm that night his phone had gotten stolen and he didn't realize it was gone until the morning. There were two people staying in the building as guests of one of the other students there, and we suspected them (still do). Somehow I got accused (those people accused me, go figure), and it really upset me because I wasn't sure how many people had heard this or anything and I got super paranoid and thought everyone hated me. So I was depressed for like a solid week and a half, maybe two weeks, before I talked to people and realized I was being a faggot.
For Valentines I made Aaron chocolates and I gave them to him a week early because he was upset about a multitude of things and I wanted to make him feel better. Then the day before valentines I told him I was attracted to him (via text because I am a wuss), and he ignored it. It kinda hurt my feelings, but I eventually confronted him about it and he was just like "I didn't know how to respond, sorry." Ouch. Whatever, I left him alone and he avoided me for like a week, then started talking to me again out of the blue.
I ALSO WENT TO THE GHIBLI MUSEUM. I almost forgot I was still in Japan for a sec. The Ghibli Museum was absolutely magical~ The short film they showed us was so fucking cute too. I also got to eat BUKKAKE UDON that day, just to say I got bukkake udon. It's just fucking udon with some kind of meat I don't remember now (wow it would really have helped for me to document Japan shit while I was actually there).
I was going to go to some Lolita event with my friend Jen, but it happened to be the day we went to the Ghibli museum (started at midnight) and we were too fucking pooped to go haha. I was also meeting up with some Japanese friends the next morning and I didn't want to feel like absolute shit from staying up until 5am.
On that note, I happened to make friends with two otaku girls that happened to like lolita! My friend Gabby and I met them when we went to some international party in Ebisu. She wanted to go to one of them and I kinda gave her fair warning that they were full of creepy old men, but she wanted to meet some Japaneses. Hooooly shit was it full of creepy old men, only this time creepy old white dudes.
I met the two Japanese girls because one of them was wearing some kind of gouk-looking dress. I complimented her on it and she invited me to meet her friend. We talked with them and it was kinda awkward, because of the environment and language barrier I guess. But the poor girls were getting harassed by old drunk British men. :(
They ended up leaving, and then we left shortly after and met them again at the elevator. We walked with them to Ebisu station and this drunk ass mofo from the party is trying to talk to us. He asked me if I was British and I was like "Nope." "American?" "Yeah" and then he started speaking spanish at me! WHAT THE FUCK "UHHH I don't speak Spanish" Then he tried talking to Mai (the friend of the girl I complimented, Mizuho) and he was like "So are you Chinese?" and she looks at him and is like "What do you THINK?" I have never lold harder.
But when we hung out with them a second time, they definitely opened up more. Tooootally otaku though haha, but I love it. They like butler cafes and Mizuho is a fujoshi. I think I had the best luck among my nerdy friends there in terms of making Japanese friends haha. I signed up for the language partner program with Temple and the girl I ended up making friends with was a manga otaku.
On a separate note, my knees have been super sore for the past week. I think it has to do with the fact that I went from walking and standing a lot over there to sitting around all the time here. I went biking today to try and give my legs a little exercise (my knees don't hurt when I'm walking or standing). I ended up biking 7 miles! I was trying to ride to the Asian market in my town but I ended up running out of sidewalk before I got there.
Also, all these "transformation" posts on egl make me want to invest in better makeup supplies.