A Blog to Remember

Well today is the day that all my regular classes start, which mean this is either the beginning or end of my adventures. It feels like I've done so much since I've got to Japan, and while I feel as though my adventures in Japan may be getting repetitive, they are not any less fun, for me. See I realize that saying “Hey I went to this place again” isn't really the most interesting thing to do. So this is the blog where I have to try out amping things up to make them sound more exciting. Now maybe after this change today with classes and all that it won't be necessary, but it's still good to practice things, right?

Before I get some regaling done though, I think I will do a thing of “Tom, Don't Eat That!” So I think this was almost a week about, but I had natto sushi. For those of you who don't know what natto is, it's basically fermented soy beans. Now the area I'm in is famous for making this food, and every Japanese person here loves to eat it. It's supposedly very good for you. So let actually get down to what natto is like. It takes like beans. Really really gooey sticky bean that you can chew forever and ever. And yeah so it was weird. Bottom line readers, natto is weird, really weird. It's too sticky to really enjoy, but it's eatable as long you don't smell it first.

So yeah anyway after that last blog I went to the second hand store. Now second hand stores in Japan are places of wonderment where all your dreams can come true, except apparently finding an original FamiCom. Once you walk into one of these stores though, you're sure to find something that catches your eye. There were actually two seperate buildings. One was for music, movies, and games, and the other was for appliances clothes, and really whatever else. I spent most of my time in the first store, which is called Hard Off. I saw many things there that I thought about buying. The decision of whether or not to buy something plagued me like some sort of killer vaccine or something. So I decided to take a break from all that and wander down the last isle I hadn't check out. At first I thought I saw some movies I recognized, but then I soon realized that I did not. The movies I found there, let's just say there were one of the first things ol' Abey asked me about when I got to Japan. Yeah so soon after that I departed from my adventure to that store. I've been back a few times, but I haven't been able to decide on anything.

That night we decided to attempt to do something epic, have a cooking night. Almost all the foreign students in the dorm ended up cooking their dinner in the kitchen at the same time. This turned out to be quite the challenge. We were dodging each other left and right. We weaved in and out of each other as we moved through the kitchen. We shared pots and burner desperately trying to get all our dishes completed. Eventually we manage to come up with a feast that king or archduke would be proud of, since those guys probably don't really know how to cook anyway. After having our filled we all pitched in to clean up and went out separate ways.

The next day some stuff happened. I don't really remember what, but I'm sure there was a dragon involved at some point. Then after that we went bowling. Now hopefully when this gets going I'll actually have a picture of the place in this blog, which would be a first for this blog so try to be excited. So anyway, we went there and bowled. I did the best, but I didn't do too well. Many people didn't do as well as they normally might. We decided to have a competition. Between the two teams. It was very hard to tell who was ahead because the other team bowled much slower than we did at that beginning, so we were a frame apart for most of the match. On the last bowler, their worst player, we ended up being tied. All she had to do was knock down one pin. We put the pressure on her. She threw the ball. In the gutter. Last change. Tension was high all over the room. She got into position. Approached the lane. Threw the ball. And oh yeah I forgot to mention that a couple people were drinking some beer out of a paper cup, but one of them said it tasted better in glass. Oh yeah and that last person knocked down like 9 pins so we lost.

After that we goofed off in the arcade and then ate some food and went home late. I didn't get to sleep till late and that kind of sucked for this morning. The next blog update will probably come pretty soon because I wasn't able to get this one posted yesterday. So maybe my blog says this was for Saturday, but really it's for Friday morning.