today julie (really sweet girl from the philippines who's in 2 of my classes and lives on the same floor as me, yay!) and i went to akihabara! for, like, 8 hours. wow.

( akihabara! )

very very good news: there is a coldstone in roppongi!!! my last sadness about japan has gone! not only have i found gay-friendly people, feminists, and RENT fans here, i have now found a coldstone!!! this is very good because i have been craving coldstone soooo badly. but me and my roommates are gonna go soon, so yay ( Read more... )

so, i just spent the day in harajuku with kate and alexis and chris and vince (well, until vince left us to go to an utada hikaru concert. *jealousyjealousy*)... but anyway, i love how i can easily go to harajuku or shinjuku or shibuya for the afternoon. it's not even a whole day trip, it just takes about an hour each way... teehee ( Read more... )

today we went to some places that were a little less tourist-y than usual, places that were a little more out of the way. it's amazing how much quieter and less busy london can be when you're not right in the middle of everything.

( tate gallery, etc. )

i went to platform 9 3/4!!

look, look! (it is much too cool for an lj-cut.)


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we went on a day trip today to hampton court with helena and naomi and auntie nicola and uncle chris. hampton court was where king henry VIII lived (or one of the places, anyway...), but it had a lot of history before that and after that, and the whole thing is a spectacular mixture of different architectural styles from different time periods (i ( Read more... )

okay, so, sorry for the previous angry rant, i just get really really frustrated sometimes ( Read more... )

we were all too exhausted to do much of anything today, we took a tour on a riverboat which was nice, and then we attempted to walk down the rue du faubourg saint-honore, which is where all the haute couture shops are... mwah. i saw prada and dolce & gabanna (oh, i want some dolce & gabanna sunglasses soooo much...) and yves saint laurent and ( Read more... )

so, i was a cheesy tourist and went to the eiffel tower, much to my grandma's dismay. it was actually surprisingly beautiful, in its own strange way... it was also much bigger than i expected. i didn't go up it, because it was much too hot and the lines were very long, but i'm very glad i saw it in real life ( Read more... )

i had an awesome day today ( Read more... )