Blogs from Chiba, Japan, Asia - page 19

Tuesday, 5 July 2005 Last J-pop class. Aoyagi SENSEI was a real cool guy. Good times. The last day, he was trying to teach us some Okinawan DANCE. Oo, and I remember during the first midterm, I put my head down to take a 15-minute nap cause I was really really tired. I hope I ended up with a B in the class :) Thursday, 7 July 2005 I went KARAOKE with Maki. Friday, 8 July 2005 I remember this Friday as a very happy day. The weather was awesome, and my friends were riding up the crest of life's roller coaster: many had finally found that special someone to invest their time and energy into (or the girl had found them, as was usually the case, haha). I spied upon Stephane and Cedric DISCUSSING such ... read more

25 June 2005 - Disney SEA (2nd Time) I met with Kei at around noon, having had 3 hours of sleep. I had intended to enter the park after 6 (so there's a discount), but... Anyway, it was a beautiful day, albeit a bit hot, and we got lunch first. LUNCH was ok. We headed to the Indiana Jones ride first, and that was interesting since she screamed like a girl, haha. It was cute. We walked around a bit, and, simply put, it was a great date. We couldn't get good seats next to the water for the SHOWS, and I really wanted to be standing next to the water holding her to watch the night show and fireworks... but it was really crowded. I forgot it was a Saturday we went, not Wednesday like ... read more

Thursday, 2 June 2005 - Marines Vs Carp IES agreed to reimburse us some of the price for a BASEBALL game -- the student ticket was 1500 for seats in the infield behind third base, and IES would give us back 500 if we showed them the stub. In short, it cost 1000 yen to watch the number one team in the league at the time, the CHIBA Marines. It's ironic because the Marines have always been a joke, but for some reason, this season, they've done really well. Anyway, this is the first baseball game I've ever been to. It was RAINY. At the entrance were some food TRUCKS that had interesting names too. The park was pretty EMPTY, and we got a lot of space to ourselves. I kinda wanted to sit where the ... read more

Note: I cannot upload pics at the moment, and my camera has run outta batteries, which I can't replace... read the journal. Anyway, any words I completely capitalize will have corresponding pics, when I get them up that is. Quick update, since I am going to dinner at 7pm with a group, and it is 6:16pm now: Plane ride on Singapore Air was 11 hours. Not bad. First thing I noticed was the crazy ELECTRONICS -- you can watch tons of movies, or listen to a ton of CDs, or play a ton of cool games! Decent FOOD -- had smoked salmon... so I guess smoked salmon doesn't really meand "cooked." Saw: - "Motorcycle Diaries" = a must see! Esp. you Sarah Burg! - "Closer" = (well, I missed a little in the beginning) Natalie Portman ... read more

Wow. After a full day transiting in Singapore by myself, I'm on my way to Minneapolis, Minnesota via Tokyo. Have a couple of hours transiting in Narita - Tokyo, so I started to reflect on what has been going on for the past couple days. I feel so insecure about everything, maybe because this is my first time go abroad by myself. No mommy or daddy or anybody around me, showing me around the immigrations or transiting between flights. Or maybe because I know my life will be changed forever from this point on. Or maybe since I'm carrying a lot of cash. LOTS of money, which I found out a little too late that this amount of cash to carry around is illegal in most country, including the United States of America. On the other ... read more