Today I talked with mom for a bit.  She lost track of time and Mark ended up texting my brother to find out if mom was coming online to chat or not.  At 10  I went upstairs to make breakfast and then after I ate  I worked on a bracelet that I'm making for Aya.  I also studied my Japanese books (grammar and Kanji reading) until almost 1pm.  At about ( Read more... )

This morning I made Egg Mcmuffins for breakfast!  They were good, but I cooked the eggs a little too well.  I couldn't figure out what temp to set the stove at...just a little different from what I'm used to.   I left to go to Tachikawa to meet Aya at 10 and I got to Tachikawa at about 10:50am.  I discovered that Tachikawa has changed a lot since I ( Read more... )

Today I went to Shibuya with Emanuel and Julian.  We left the hotel around noon and took the Yamanote line to Shibuya (190 yen).  When we got there we decided to go to the Tokyu Food Show.  It's like a big underground market full of food stuff.  Bread shops, meat shops, french foods, german foods, sweets and cakes...you name it.  Everything was ( Read more... )

Well today was an easy day.  I went online this morning to talk to mom but she didn't come online so I chatte with Tricia and Dr. Phil for a bit. I also did some reading.  Then around 10:30 I went walking around the city and did some shopping in Tobu stor.  I bought myself a nice science book on space for kids (all the kanji have furigana over them ( Read more... )

Today was kinda cool.  Jessica and Stephanie decided to go to Odaiba and I asked them if I could tag along.  They had no problems with that so we went to eat up the street from the hotel and the caught a train to Shimbashi and then took the monorail to Odaiba.  It was really cheap to get there and only took about an hour.   Odaiba is a peninsula ( ( Read more... )

TODAY WAS HOT!!!  it was about 40C today!  Right now there is a very big thunderstorm going on...it was raining so hard a moment ago I could hardly see down the street. I made it home about 10 minutes before the rain started  over 2 hours ago. I'm hoping that things will cool down now. I don't think I can stand another day like today...I must have ( Read more... )

Well I ended up getting about...maybe 3 hours of broken sleep last night.  Really hard, uncomfortable beds, and I know I am not the only one not sleeping well. Hopefully I'll be able to spend a few nights at Aya's house next week, I'll have to wait and see ( Read more... )

I spent over an hour tossing and turning in my bed, trying not to wake up the other people in my room ( Read more... )

It's 7pm in Japan and I have just gotten to my hotel in Ikebukuro....that's 6am in Ottawa...which means I have been in transit for 26 hours! I am in desperate need of a shower.  Just wanted to let mom and friends know that I got here in one piece and didn't get lost...even got a cell phone that can send e-mails and make international calls. ( Read more... )

Well, I'm in Vancouver now.  I have 4 hours until my next flight.  I just checked my e-mail and found out that my friend who was supposed to meet me at Narita Airport can't meet me now...so I have to find my own way to the hotel.  Not really my biggest worry (I have a map), staying awake long enought to get there could be a problem though.  I left ( Read more... )