so more walking shots. our dorm manager took us to the train station today. the above shot is right near our housing. someone (our landlord maybe?) puts vegatables (obvsiously there are no vegetables there now) in there and you put money in this box and take what you paid for. no one gaurds it so you could probably steal but......i don't think i'll violate the law for a cucumber.

and what is special about the above shot is that i am photographed walking. haha. one of the boys offered to take a picture of me walking so.........i let him. can you tell i'm trying to walk sexy-like?

yep

some kind of construction going on. all of these are really quick snapshots because, like i mentioned above, we were walking and i didn't have much time to compose. :)

across the street is the train station where people buy tickets or train passes. whatever. we bought ours today.

the view from the train station side.

a drug store right near the drug store. this is where the volume of people increased. a whole lot of "sumimasen" (excuse me/i'm sorry) was said.....or at least in my head i was saying it....or trying to remember what excuse me is in japanese.

me photographing my roommate signing up for her train/bus pass.

let's take pictures!!!

people waiting to get on the train, japanese woman crossing the street haha. we went to a grocery store today which was an adventure. we bought like....$50 worth of groceries. don't freak out mom. we split the cost. i think the big bag of rice we purchased was the bulk of the cost. anyway my bag was very heavy and i was strugging (at this time i was upstairs in housewares and such, downstairs is where you buy groceries bag everything yourself at a seperate tables after you pay) anyway i have my bag on a counter and i'm trying to adjust and an employee comes over to give me another bag. and i said to her arigato gozaimasu (thank you very much) and for some reason that made my day........yeah ok i'm a loser. and it rained during our 5-10 minute walk home carrying heavy grocery bags. AWESOME!

kitchen, and roommate, and that doorway leads to our room.

flowers!

exciting stuff i know

cockroach house!!!


i hope these are somewhat interesting. i also hope these photographs get better sometime soon.

a vending maching. these are EVERYWHERE including right outside of tuj house (where i live). oh and i haven't figured out how to put these pictures in some specific order. blogger.com sucks brian. boo! so this picture is actually supposed to be last




ok. again i don't have a lot of time. i'll explain my WHOLE day(s) tomorrow. it's 1:30 am and i think the roommate is going to bed soon so i have to make this quick. the pictures suck except for 2. i plan on taking a walk around the 'hood by myself sometime soon and take good pictures.






my roommate and a boy that lives in my building. he made us dinner tonight. anyway we are at a restaurant....you walk in the restaurant and there are these machines...kinda like vending machines but not. you put in yen, push a button (i didn't know what i was picking so i just pushed the cheapest button 700 yen or 7 dollars) take a ticket and then your waitress takes the ticket and eventually brings you your food. i got ramen i think pork and seaweed in a pork based soup. it tasted........japanese. haha.

a horrible picture of me eating ramen. i will have a better noodle slurping picture later.

lame picture from a bridge. you should click on these pictures (for those of you who don't know) to see them better. like i said i haven't taken any good ones yet. but this is around the campus. they have trees and birds in japan. ;)

so we went to a 100 yen store (pretty much a dollar store) and this is a mouse trap. seriously. and this kind of cartoon stuff is everywhere. like on the bus there is a picture of a cell phone sleeping peacefully. so did you guess that means you should silence your cell phone? it may say that in english as well as japanese. by the way some stuff is in english. especially stores. there's a store for pet stuff that is called "pet you". haha. i'll photograph that. it's funny. but it also has the japanese lettering with it....i think. anyway...and some stuff does not have any english. we were told to buy bleach for the bathroom to prevent the growth of mold (it is very humid here) and nothing was in english so i would open up bottles and smell them.


this is obviously something to clean the floor. awesome right??? oh and antoinette said she wanted something authentically japanese and i told her i'd buy her a mousetrap. she said she didn't want a mousetrap but i'm going to buy her one anyway. and we bought a roachtrap (photograph later) that is a little japanese house where roaches meet their death!!! i haven't witnessed any cockroaches but we could have them.




lame picture of us walking. i think our dorm manager lady was giving us a tour. oh and that building with the red walkway thing.....yeah that's a denny's. open 24 hours!


bus shot. wow. awesome i know. and i think a doorbell sound is heard when whoever presses this button to alert the bus driver to stop at the next stop. it's pleasant. and the seat have some sort of cartoon on them. again, photograph later. i need to get over feeling weird about taking pictures. i obviously look foreign so why should i care? the boy on the left was the boy i met after leaving the plane. he's from the south. y'all want some sweet tay? (no one probably got the humor in that except dottie and i)


this is a vending maching on campus. there was much discussion about what those fish things are. ok. i'm not tired but i'm tired. more later. goodnight!

predeparture celebration photographs continued:

i'd like to mention that i have not done anything productive all day except obsessively check my myspace to find nothing new, listen to yrock (which is actually wayyy productive) think, and feel depressed not so much because i'm leaving.... because of things i can't control.

sorry xanga i'm a trader! boooo!!!!!

fucking weekend. WOW!!! (see laura for visual)

so i'm going to lecture myself.

kim you know better!! shame shame! tears tears rage rage

yay yay yay first post!! yay!!!!