april weather

well, no aquarium today :/

i spent so long trying to fax things to my japanese school (every damn fax machine here works differently!!) that i was late meeting my czech friends. since they don't have cell phones, i couldn't be like, "i'm gonna be 10 minutes late!" and by the time i got to the meeting place they had left. so i wandered around a little, but i couldn't even find the aquarium! ugh, shinagawa was kind of a stupid place. the weather was absolutely gorgeous, though, so i didn't mind walking around.

soooo then i went to shiuya 109. holy shit intense. i'm gonna go in a take a video sometime. there's no way to describe it. it was even more intense today cause there's a huge sale in every store this week. it's ridiculous how expensive japanese stores are, though. the sale prices are like $40 for a t-shirt, $60 for a skirt or something. every store spills out into the hall, which is just a tiny circle anyway. and there are like 8 girls at each store shouting in the most high-pitched, annoying tone in the world what kind of sales they have. omg i can hear them still now shouting IRASSHAIMASEEEEEEEEE GORAN KUDASAAAAAI. i didn't even know humans could make those noises.

so i finally found a skirt i liked and that was in my price range, but it turns out that japanese clothes come in two sizes: too small and way too small (ok, medium and small....). well, no, i can wear shirts and dresses, but i don't think i'll ever be able to fit into japanese bottoms. gawd, they're all ridiculously skinny.

all the fashions are the same in every store, though. like, exactly the same things. some things are cute, but a lot obnoxious. where are the thrift stores like i used to find in osaka? i'll have to do some research.

i went to shinjuku too cause that's where i know there's a citibank (the only bank that works for foreign debit cards) and it's on the way home. had some royal milk tea, which is such a nice drink; i wish they had it in the us. bought some language books at kinokuniya. got a bento at the conbini.

gonna go study some nihongo. i'm hoping the new books will give some inspiration.