Pictures!!
I"m sorry for the late, late update. To get you up to speed, my ribs have now healed (thank god), Golden week was much fun and included a day trip to Kamakura, a picnic with several of the exchange students and the group of Japanese friends I went skiing with over Christmas and shopping.
The shopping continued when my childhood friend, Carmen, came to Tokyo to see me for 3 days during her trip to Japan. Seeing as her friend asked her to bring something back of the elusive and highly popular brand "a bathing ape" we went on an ape hunt in Harajuku, only to find the store was closed. ALthough this seems easy enough, please remember that an address alone is not sufficent to find the location of any building in Japan. The closest it can get you is to the neighbourhood, where you then have to wander around looking for the building number, which rather than being in any sequencial order is determined by when that particular building was built in relation to the others in the neighbourhood. But it was fun nonetheless.
Back up to speed, I'd like to thank Colin, who just bought a new domain and generously is allowing me to host my pictures there. I spent a whackload of time today uploading pictures and flipping them upright etc when I should have been working on my letter to the editor or the animethon guidebook comic translations, but they're mostly all there now. Probably this weekend I'll add in some of the other Tokyo/everyday life based pictures but all the big things, namely my trips are up for your viewing pleasure! Tada!http://afreak.ca/gallery/albums.php
The shopping continued when my childhood friend, Carmen, came to Tokyo to see me for 3 days during her trip to Japan. Seeing as her friend asked her to bring something back of the elusive and highly popular brand "a bathing ape" we went on an ape hunt in Harajuku, only to find the store was closed. ALthough this seems easy enough, please remember that an address alone is not sufficent to find the location of any building in Japan. The closest it can get you is to the neighbourhood, where you then have to wander around looking for the building number, which rather than being in any sequencial order is determined by when that particular building was built in relation to the others in the neighbourhood. But it was fun nonetheless.
Back up to speed, I'd like to thank Colin, who just bought a new domain and generously is allowing me to host my pictures there. I spent a whackload of time today uploading pictures and flipping them upright etc when I should have been working on my letter to the editor or the animethon guidebook comic translations, but they're mostly all there now. Probably this weekend I'll add in some of the other Tokyo/everyday life based pictures but all the big things, namely my trips are up for your viewing pleasure! Tada!http://afreak.ca/gallery/albums.php