so i did go out last night for halloween. i have few pictures but i'll share them anyway. and of course they are not in order. stupid blogger.

we went to eat in shibuya after ditching of one of the boys that lives in our building. haha anyway......it was delicious as always.



stephanie, my roommate, likes blood.

patrick is an octopus. or as the japanese say, tako.

yeah awesome picture of myself. anyway i'm a witch.

and this is not the first time we have encountered "free hugs" signs.

patrick loves it. i got a hug as well.

so we started out in jiyugaoka, which is where we walk from out house to the train station there to cause trouble all over tokyo. we saw 2 kids dressed up. some people ignored us, some laughed and pointed (how could you NOT laugh at patrick's costume??) some said kawaii, which means cute. uhh...yeah. so onward to shibuya to eat where there were some more people dressed up but not many. after eating patrick and i decided to try harajuku to get crepes and see what was going on but by 9:30 the streets were dead, all the shops had closed down, however we did get crepes and the crepe people loved us. haha. from there patrick and i decided to try roppongi and as much as both of us don't like roppongi we knew there would be a lot of halloween action because of roppongi's reputation for it's nightlife and there are more internationals. we went to some bar where pretty much everyone was dressed up. patrick called it an old person bar but me being the seasoned bar-fly, didn't think too much of it. that's how it is at home. i danced among drunken salary men. it was fun. patrick and i talked to a japanese man. his english was good which he denied but i told him his english is much better than my japanese. true story. so.....knowing our time was running out to catch the last train home, we decided to try a bar in jiyugaoka. we walked down some stairs to a bar that had 2 bartenders, and 4 drunekn japanese people. haha. everyone cheered when we came in. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! they were doing karaoke, and sang really well. however patrick and i took a turn and failed. i didn't really know the song he was singing so i couldn't help much. no no patrick did well. we also did ymca, a big hit in the bar. :)

mom (dottie): "ok well tell everyone i said hi. stephanie, patrick, but not dan"

best quote ever. i just can't believe my mother said that. but then last night, while trying to read a book, i thought, "that's fine. go ahead and think that. i'm not ok with it. i know better." i'm really trying to work on my anger. blindly. uhh....all my artwork is angry however my professor doesn't seem too concerned? or maybe he just isn't showing it.

gan ban this weekend??????? justice? do the d.a.n.c.e.?

ok so these pictures are not in ideal order, but what else is new? yesterday partrick, serhan, steph, and i went on a magical adventure. enjoy

oh yeah steve stopped by and we had dinner. he doesn't care for japanese food.

bad ass

love it

so in harajuku there is a place called the meiji shrine, our destination.

perhaps it's difficult to see but these worms made a kind of webbing around these branches. weirrrrrrrrrrrrd.

i don't know.



my japanese boyfriend

and again


so you can buy one of these blocks of wood for 500 yen and you can write whatever prayer on them and then hang your block with the rest of these blocks. it surrounds a tree. i'm not sure of the other details but i didn't purchase a piece of wood for 500 yen.


this is in ueno. there is a park with a zoo and other cool things. i dig ueno park. and this is the view down to the rest of the park? yeah i could be wrong.


octopus balls. i can't recall the actual name for them but i tried one and did not enjoy. "they pop in your mouth". yeah....and not in a good way.


see those duck boats? partrick and i were planning on being inside one of those but the sun doesn't stay out very long in tokyo and they closed for new riders by the time we got there. very very sad but i dig ueno like i said already so i'm sure i'll get back.


steve fishing in the japanese sea
friday the roommate and i decided to dye our hair. before

during

after. it's yellow. but it's not supposed to be yellow. and red. but it's supposed to be a richer red. i may try again because i have plenty of hair dye left. whatever it's different so i'm happy.

craziness








so.....digital ain't workin' out so well. the batteries die wayyy quick. yesterday was a long day and i should have had a ton more to share easily with the western world but the camera dies too quick. and i forgot more film. grr!!!

i have some videos. i'll put those up later. i need to write a paper.