flat_head_screwdriver
2008-05-13, 11:00
Normally ive got no problems adhering to totse's strict literacy and spelling requirements, but not for this post, so cop it sweet.
So this is how the last 3 weeks have gone down:
We left from the quiet country airport commonly known as avalon to the bustling metropolis of an airport that is sydney, where they made us pay to get from domestic to international... retards.
Then we hung around there until the next jetstar Airbus A330 left for osaka, a city in a country called japan.
Once in osaka we didnt really know what to hell to do, but we followed the crowd to some automated monorail thing that didnt have a driver. We then got to their customs which is seriously a piece of crap, they didnt even xray the bags, we just walked through.
Then we waded our was to the busses that took us to an osakinan hotel about an hour away from the airport, where we got maccas and crashed.
Then the next day we had to wait till 5 to shinkansen it up to tokyo so we looked at shops and basically just hang around like stupid tourists.
The next couple of days consisted of the people we went there to see getting married, and we just hung aroung with their families and stuff who were totally awesome and really nice.
After that happened we went to disneysea which was killer because it had remade the little mermaid under the sea scene, agrabah from aladdin and the temple of doom in rediculous detail. They had killer rides, killer scenery, just awesome everything really.
From there went out into the country towns of sendai and togchigi which were both really nice places and there was no traditional japanese mist there like there was in tokyo. Sendai had a really cool suizokukan or in english aquarium and an array of islands which we went on a boat ride around and was awesome. The place is rated as the third most beautiful place in Japan. they pride themselves on it, its funny. Translating conversations from here on in for your viewing pleasure, no less than 4 sendai residents told me that it was the "third most beautiful place in japan" But what about the other 2 sendai? huh? you cant live in ignorant bliss forever...
After that we wend back to tokyo and just rested because we were drained and just did mundane everyday non touristy things which was good.
The next thing was that we went and met my friend meg who i stayed with there the first time. with her and her mum we went to asakusa, which has a temple thing, harajuku, which is where the spastic fasions come from, and korakuen, where went went on a big ferris wheel. This place, korakuen, was its 5th year anniversarry and the ferris wheel had 38 cars. the 5th car was a luxury car decorated and you get a free photo with it too. and we nailed the 5th car! it was cool.
then a few days later we went with meg and her friend to this cool resturant in shibuya where you sit in little UFOs and eat your dinner. it was really cool, they had all alien like lights in it and yeah it was just really cool. we stayed there for ages and just talked about shit and meg and her friend were really funny.
After that we went to the party and going out capital of tokyo known as roppongi. Roppongi is off the metaphorical hook. We went to this bar called gaspanic and it was a cool place, not really belting my kind of music, but a cool place nonetheless.
The next thing we did was go back to korakuen to ride on a super huge rollercoaster that we found there for first time. it was awesome, really high and really fast.
After that we went to disneyland, which was fun, but i personally thought disneysea took a boris on disneyland and left it there to crustifity.
The next thing I did was go back to roppongi with meg, who i realised at this stage was probably the most attractive asian i, let alone know, but have ever seen in my life. We went back to the bar, and met some of her friends who were really awesome. Oh and for the record, roppongis ratios of asians to caucasions and black people was exactly the same as Melbourne, which freaked me out somewhat. This time i was getting maverickly good at japanese so with our combined skills of eachothers languages pretty fluent conversations were emerging between me and these people i met in the bar. But, as we lapped up happy hour, the alcohol started to set in, but not to a dibilitating effect. I found it increased my foreign language skills x10, sometimes i never cease to amaze myself haha. I mean, i was rambling like a drunken damo does to these people about my random philsophies of stuff and observations of the situation, and they understood perfectly. I kept asking them "are you actually understanding what im saying to you" and they were. it was cool as. So there i was havin one of the best nights ever with these cool as people in roppongi when i got a phone call that was time to go home. Meg took me to the station in roppongi and i knew i had to get off at this other station called hatchobori and change trains. So who didnt know where to go, and who found them selves in the middle of a desserted street? I did. So i waded my way to some other station and back to the now hated hatchobori, finally found my line, and was happy to have not missed the last train. Well i was drunk on this last train too right, and i had a bottle of water cause i was massively dehydrated at the time. and i went to drink my last little bit of it and the lid was on so i got and angry at the bottle and trew it at some girl sleeping on the train by accident. So i got up and blurted an apology at her and just drifted in and out of whatever i was experiencing.
When i got home i was telling the girl we were staying with all about my night, in the tiniest detail, in japanese, while drunk. It was amazing. she understood everything, and even told my how much better i was at speaking while drunk. :)
The next day we went home.
the end
So this is how the last 3 weeks have gone down:
We left from the quiet country airport commonly known as avalon to the bustling metropolis of an airport that is sydney, where they made us pay to get from domestic to international... retards.
Then we hung around there until the next jetstar Airbus A330 left for osaka, a city in a country called japan.
Once in osaka we didnt really know what to hell to do, but we followed the crowd to some automated monorail thing that didnt have a driver. We then got to their customs which is seriously a piece of crap, they didnt even xray the bags, we just walked through.
Then we waded our was to the busses that took us to an osakinan hotel about an hour away from the airport, where we got maccas and crashed.
Then the next day we had to wait till 5 to shinkansen it up to tokyo so we looked at shops and basically just hang around like stupid tourists.
The next couple of days consisted of the people we went there to see getting married, and we just hung aroung with their families and stuff who were totally awesome and really nice.
After that happened we went to disneysea which was killer because it had remade the little mermaid under the sea scene, agrabah from aladdin and the temple of doom in rediculous detail. They had killer rides, killer scenery, just awesome everything really.
From there went out into the country towns of sendai and togchigi which were both really nice places and there was no traditional japanese mist there like there was in tokyo. Sendai had a really cool suizokukan or in english aquarium and an array of islands which we went on a boat ride around and was awesome. The place is rated as the third most beautiful place in Japan. they pride themselves on it, its funny. Translating conversations from here on in for your viewing pleasure, no less than 4 sendai residents told me that it was the "third most beautiful place in japan" But what about the other 2 sendai? huh? you cant live in ignorant bliss forever...
After that we wend back to tokyo and just rested because we were drained and just did mundane everyday non touristy things which was good.
The next thing was that we went and met my friend meg who i stayed with there the first time. with her and her mum we went to asakusa, which has a temple thing, harajuku, which is where the spastic fasions come from, and korakuen, where went went on a big ferris wheel. This place, korakuen, was its 5th year anniversarry and the ferris wheel had 38 cars. the 5th car was a luxury car decorated and you get a free photo with it too. and we nailed the 5th car! it was cool.
then a few days later we went with meg and her friend to this cool resturant in shibuya where you sit in little UFOs and eat your dinner. it was really cool, they had all alien like lights in it and yeah it was just really cool. we stayed there for ages and just talked about shit and meg and her friend were really funny.
After that we went to the party and going out capital of tokyo known as roppongi. Roppongi is off the metaphorical hook. We went to this bar called gaspanic and it was a cool place, not really belting my kind of music, but a cool place nonetheless.
The next thing we did was go back to korakuen to ride on a super huge rollercoaster that we found there for first time. it was awesome, really high and really fast.
After that we went to disneyland, which was fun, but i personally thought disneysea took a boris on disneyland and left it there to crustifity.
The next thing I did was go back to roppongi with meg, who i realised at this stage was probably the most attractive asian i, let alone know, but have ever seen in my life. We went back to the bar, and met some of her friends who were really awesome. Oh and for the record, roppongis ratios of asians to caucasions and black people was exactly the same as Melbourne, which freaked me out somewhat. This time i was getting maverickly good at japanese so with our combined skills of eachothers languages pretty fluent conversations were emerging between me and these people i met in the bar. But, as we lapped up happy hour, the alcohol started to set in, but not to a dibilitating effect. I found it increased my foreign language skills x10, sometimes i never cease to amaze myself haha. I mean, i was rambling like a drunken damo does to these people about my random philsophies of stuff and observations of the situation, and they understood perfectly. I kept asking them "are you actually understanding what im saying to you" and they were. it was cool as. So there i was havin one of the best nights ever with these cool as people in roppongi when i got a phone call that was time to go home. Meg took me to the station in roppongi and i knew i had to get off at this other station called hatchobori and change trains. So who didnt know where to go, and who found them selves in the middle of a desserted street? I did. So i waded my way to some other station and back to the now hated hatchobori, finally found my line, and was happy to have not missed the last train. Well i was drunk on this last train too right, and i had a bottle of water cause i was massively dehydrated at the time. and i went to drink my last little bit of it and the lid was on so i got and angry at the bottle and trew it at some girl sleeping on the train by accident. So i got up and blurted an apology at her and just drifted in and out of whatever i was experiencing.
When i got home i was telling the girl we were staying with all about my night, in the tiniest detail, in japanese, while drunk. It was amazing. she understood everything, and even told my how much better i was at speaking while drunk. :)
The next day we went home.
the end