TOKYO BABY!!!!

awe...our last day, time flies when you are having fun!

I hate Americans, well actually only ignorant Americans that make the rest of us look bad. So me and Terren were walking down the street last night and with heels we both stand about 5’11, she may even be a little taller. So, I can see that in Japan we kinda standout, if ya know what I mean! But anyways, there was a guy and his girlfriend (who looked Russian but had no accents so I’m assuming they were American) walking down the street around Roppongi where most of the foreigner bars are in Tokyo. They are walking towards us and we are about to pass them when: He looks at me and Terren and says something to his girlfriend, disrespectful, of course. His girlfriend hits him and says: “shut up, don’t say that” and he looks me directly in the face and says “Why, it’s not like they can understand what I am saying anyways…” That about did it for me! Needless to say, I couldn’t just bite my tongue and allow him to get away with it, so I looked him in the face and said some very choice words in perfect English. He looked at me in complete shock like he just had been hit by a bus!! Being the people we are and the state we were in, me and Terren ended up making a big scene for Japan (anywhere else it wouldn’t have been a big deal). Ray and his girlfriend, Aki, had to coax us away with the promise of buying us kabobs and everything was cool again, and I think the guy will think twice about being an ignorant loser.

The morning was not a pretty sight and we woke up a ½ hour after check out so we were running around like chicken’s with our head cut off to get out before we were charged for another night. We were so excited because Tomoko was meeting us at noon in Shibuya for lunch and then hanging out all day. I haven’t seen her for 4 months so we all had a lot of catching up to do. Who has the easiest job, best students, internet at school. Who’s single, who has a good boyfriend, who’s exes are engaged, who’s are cheaters, and who just doesn’t give a damn. Who has snow, who has the best drinking stories, and who can’t wait to go back to America. It was awesome and for that entire day, I forgot that I was living in Japan. It was sooo much fun and we are even talking about moving to New York together after leaving Japan in August!

Onto another cutsey shopping district in Tokyo called Daikanyama…Anyways we did more shopping and spent a lot of money that we don’t have! I bought myself a couple birthday presents!

We met some more of Terren’s friends for dinner at a Jazz Bar in the middle of ritzy Harajuku which felt like we were on Rodeo Drive. The Jazz bar was really interesting since I’ve never been to one before and I even managed to score a Ceasar Salad which is nearly impossible to come by in Japan, even though I really don’t even like Ceasar Salad’s that much, the fact that I could get one was enough of a persuasion. This was the first time in my life I ordered just a salad for dinner and now I know why I’ve never done it before. After my plate was practically licked clean, I was still starving and jones’en for a big juicy steak! No time for more food though.

After dinner we rushed back to our hotel to grab our bags, say goodbye and then onto our different bus stations to catch our buses. Mine was a 15 minute train ride away, but I think that I am going to take these fortune things more seriously now. Travel: unfavorable! I got on the train and there was an accident on the tracks which stopped my train for ½ an hour and I still had no clue exactly where my bus picked up. Not only that, but this train was the busiest train line in Tokyo and we were packed in like sardines. I didn’t even have to hold on while we were moving because there were so many people, we all just leaned together and didn’t move! Luckily this guy on the train (smashed again my left shoulder) felt bad for me and took me to the location where my bus picked up just in the knick of time. I would have never traveled again if I would have missed ANOTHER train/plane/bus. I got home @ 4:30 a.m. to the scariest bus station in the middle of nowhere in the complete dark… at least my fortune said: “You will be alive” …so I didn’t worry THAT much.