yeah i really dont think the prices are so bad i had to do a project for a class where we planned out a month long trip and with about 4000$ U.S. you can go to japan, live there for a month and then leave, dont get me wrong the room i "booked" sucked ass and didnt have a bathroom but oh well and besides it came with a free bathrobe :0
did you acctually LIVE there? i mean, planning what you do and acctually doing it is WAY different. Trust me, staying in a cruddy room would've gotten me insane. But a friend hooked us up with a nice suite in a hotel. Even so, u cant go to japan and not try all their kinds of foods. B4 i went to japan i was a fan of fast-food (well i still am but not as much) they have so many other things to eat there, and they end up being expensive, but you just HAVE to try it. The sushi, is WAY different from it is here from my point of view. Then again it is more expensive AND in order to find entertainment in japan you end up spending quite a lot. the night life is incredible which is probably why WD hasnt gotten on, too busy.
bathrobe...? O_o
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
Bathrobe? Who mentioned anything about bathrobes? I certainly didn't. I use towels only. Towels are fun. Getting drunk during afternoon lessons is also fuuuun!!! Whopee for leechee liquor!! hehehehehehe.
Aaaaanyways, yeah, night life's pretty good but it'd be better if the goddamned trains didn't stop at 12:30 and if the capsule hotels accepted women. But noooo, I have to get to the station by 12:30 and its full of scary japanese drunk screaming stuff and the fact that I'm a scary gaijin doesn't work on them.... gah. Fingers are dizzy!!
Oooooh, the new Zelda is fantastic. It made my fangirl brain implode! I have bought so many shounen jump!! i'll have to buyrn them once I get back to Mexico. Which is in just a month!! I wish I could stay longeeerrrr.
Hehehh, i never thought I'd write a gotwoot post half-drunk. i never thought i'd get drunk duriung lessons either! thats life for you.
My bedroom is not so small, actually. There's enough space for a bed and a closet and a bookshelf!! which is enough for me. And it has a window! And the door has a lock, so I can lock myself in when my four year old "brother" tires me!! Which is often.
Whoa, head starting to clear.
Anyway, life in Japan may or may not be SO expensive, it kind of depends on where you come from and whether you know how to... live here. If you come from France or England and stay here food will end up being just slightly more expensive than in your country... if you come from Latin America or China, then it'll be expensive. If you eat at restaurants every day, you'll end up poor but if you buy vegetables and rice instead and prepare your food at home then there's no problem.
If you only eat onigiri and leechee liquor you'll save money too!!
Actually, all in all I'm a very er... boring person. I like to sleep and I value not throwing up so I don't drink much and truth to be told it takes more than a night club to keep me entretained, so I frequent coffee shops and libraries much more.
An old woman here called it "having an old soul", I call it "being way too boring for my age" but since I'm happy anyways I don't care one way or the other. I dunno what else to write, really... if anyone wants to know anything then tell me, 'cause once life becomes life then there's not much to write about it even if you are living in Japan and all.
Even though you might be a lil bored, you still got an opportunity that not many people can get these days. I'm still a lil jealous since I've always wanted to go to Japan, haha.
Hopefully, you're still taking a lot of pictures there. Show us what you got when you can [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
truthofmistake said something about bathrobes... [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]
anyway, u save money just eating ramen too you know, [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
i wanted to go to japan for my graduation present but i found out today i guess im already going on a cruise that was supposed to be a surprise...id rather go to japan lol.
hey hey, dont knock cruises...they're great. unless your going to the artic, then the pools above deck are really useless... [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
Id rather go to japan than be stuck on a boat with hundreds of people and theri inbread kids i would rather watch drown than be around.
Actually, ramen is pretty expensive - 400 yen a bowl at least, which is about 4 dollars and of course thats not really SO expensive but when you are here and want to buy almost everything you see 400 yen are better spent in other things besides food. Like er, candy (OMG Pocky) and stupid Naruto and Gundam Seed toys and manga! Manga is worth 390 yen only, making it a better inversion than ramen.
Anyway, visited Ueno park yesterday. Seems all the forgein men decided I looked forgein-easy enough to invite me over to God knows where they were living and so I received five invitations and one of them kept following me around. Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy, and I wasn't even wearing anything skimpy!!
I have a corean friend who was asked "How much?" at Shinjuku. Poor girl, to be mistaken for a whore... good thing was she slapped the guy and then I arrived and started yelling at him and she yelled at him too so the guy kinda threw 5000 yen to the floor and went off running, leaving us angry but with lots of money to buy ice cream and become happy again.
Now I'll proceed to inform you all that almost all teens and young adults I've met stopped watching anime at 14, and Gundam Seed is, seemingly, watched mostly by 4 year old boys who don't understand what the fuck is going on but thing that Mechas are OMG so cool. I watch Gundam Seed every sunday (if I'm home, at least) because my host brother forces me to, almost... meanwhile, I introduced him to Naruto (which he hadn't seen before) and he liked it to the point of forgetting about his dinner.
Then he cried because the dinner was cold. I hate little kids.
Yeah alot of the parks if not any large public space have the problem of really creepy guys looking for compensated dating. But at least you got 5000 yen outa slaping and yelling at guy who was a creep.
i was talking about bringing your own ramen lol.Originally posted by: Winged Dancer
Actually, ramen is pretty expensive - 400 yen a bowl at least, which is about 4 dollars and of course thats not really SO expensive but when you are here and want to buy almost everything you see 400 yen are better spent in other things besides food. Like er, candy (OMG Pocky) and stupid Naruto and Gundam Seed toys and manga! Manga is worth 390 yen only, making it a better inversion than ramen.
Anyway, visited Ueno park yesterday. Seems all the forgein men decided I looked forgein-easy enough to invite me over to God knows where they were living and so I received five invitations and one of them kept following me around. Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy, and I wasn't even wearing anything skimpy!!
I have a corean friend who was asked "How much?" at Shinjuku. Poor girl, to be mistaken for a whore... good thing was she slapped the guy and then I arrived and started yelling at him and she yelled at him too so the guy kinda threw 5000 yen to the floor and went off running, leaving us angry but with lots of money to buy ice cream and become happy again.
Now I'll proceed to inform you all that almost all teens and young adults I've met stopped watching anime at 14, and Gundam Seed is, seemingly, watched mostly by 4 year old boys who don't understand what the fuck is going on but thing that Mechas are OMG so cool. I watch Gundam Seed every sunday (if I'm home, at least) because my host brother forces me to, almost... meanwhile, I introduced him to Naruto (which he hadn't seen before) and he liked it to the point of forgetting about his dinner.
Then he cried because the dinner was cold. I hate little kids.
and for the whore thing AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that is sooo hallarious!!!
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
Why the hell would you bring your own Ramen to Japan. Thats the biggest brain fart statement i've heard in long time.
Same here. Either I didn't get the joke (nor am I interested in getting it anyway) or that was just stupid. And instant ramen tastes horrible everywhere, even here.
*pats* Maybe you're just too sexy for you're own good. Yeah *nods* I think that's the reason.Originally posted by: Winged Dancer
Anyway, visited Ueno park yesterday. Seems all the forgein men decided I looked forgein-easy enough to invite me over to God knows where they were living and so I received five invitations and one of them kept following me around. Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy, and I wasn't even wearing anything skimpy!!
So older kids don't watch anime??? Is it considered a "loser" thing to do or something???
I tried my best...
when i went to this prep school some Japanese teachers came to our school to observe it or something, im not really sure (i was in 5th grade at the time,) and i asked one of them if he collected pokemon cards and he said he had every set. this guy was 40+.
Thus he was single and was still a virgin. I think older kids might watch a series they like everyonce and a while when they have the opertunity but not religously like some of the sadder people(I don't mean us).
hmm my friends japanese language teacher gave them all "neo additions" of poke`mon cards lol.
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
The fact you remeber the sereis name of those cards has me worried. You are very close to 'sad' side of Otakuism.
how hard is it to remember what i helped him sell on e-bay 3 wks ago?
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
*HUGS* As soon as I get a scanner I'm sending you images of chibi-Yondaime. 'Cause there's a lot of chibi Yondaime around here.Originally posted by: Eurasian
*pats* Maybe you're just too sexy for you're own good. Yeah *nods* I think that's the reason.Originally posted by: Winged Dancer
Anyway, visited Ueno park yesterday. Seems all the forgein men decided I looked forgein-easy enough to invite me over to God knows where they were living and so I received five invitations and one of them kept following me around. Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy, and I wasn't even wearing anything skimpy!!
So older kids don't watch anime??? Is it considered a "loser" thing to do or something???
Anyway, not all of them watch anime - there are some who consider it too kiddy, some others watch it every now and then and some have one series which they follow - thats pretty normal, all in all, but they don't speak about it as we do... I have yet to see two japanese arguing whether Itachi could own Jiraiya or Jiraiya could close his eyes and fight and whatever. And it's not really because they think that doing so its OMG loser LOL!!1, its just that they don't bring it up in their conversation a lot.
Anyway, on friday I was walking around Tokyo Dome and in the horizon I saw three big white panels - one had one One Piece page printed on it, another had a mix of all of Jump's series and the last one was all Naruto. So my brain almost imploded and said "OMG you have to go!! Legs, walk, now! Wait, don't look too excited. But go. Fast."
So I went there and there it was hanging, in pretty neon blue, "JUMP SHOP". My brain imploded and I entered and started buying stuff. Spent around 70 dollars in a sitting and I have to go back soon.
I bought...
One Naruto cushion with almost all charcters in chibi,
Naruto pencil case,
Konoha's leaf symbol (a pin)
A D. Gray-Man mirror,
A Gintama tea-cup
Gintama "Yorosuya Gin-chan" pin
Gintama make-up bag
And some other stuff
Its a great great store, really. It has everything you could wish of your favorite series for a perhaps little high price but hey, its worth it. Posters, manga volumes, mirrors, pins, figurines, DVDs, lunch boxes, book markers, pencil cases, CD cases, stationary, celular straps, pins... and you don't feel out of place because there you find highschool girls squealing at a Goku pin and college boys buying Bleach posters and salary men buying Hikaru no Go's "Let's 5!" t-shirts and Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo's "You are my hat!" sweat shirts. Its the kind of store in which if you don' recognize Bleach's shinigami's symbols you are kinda out of place.
Yeah.
And on sunday I went to work the rice fields!! Not kidding here. I got knee-deep into mud and sowed rice all of the morning, then I collected potatoes, carrots and daikon from the ground and finally I prepared mochi (rice-paste cakes) in the traditional way - which is hammering the rice with big wooden hammers. Had so much fun....!
Anyway, yeah, that's that. I'm getting tired and I want to go buy today's Shounen Jump, so bye!
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