NHK and Pubbing: a fantastic day.

Tonight was awesome, mostly…
I feel like I'm still riding out the high from all of the excitement.
I was planning all day not to go to class tomorrow, but I got back around 10, so I was able to finish my very little hw (FINALLY) and decide that class is probably something I should attend if I can make it and actually feel sane.

I wanted to take a personal day, but I guess I can do that another time maybe. I think I need to save my absence though to see a doctor, I’m having some major recurring medical issues that I might want to go to two different doctors for. I don’t know if I should for my collarbone making my arm go numb, but this is a pretty shitty problem that I need to have taken care of before my body starts deteriorating further.

But anyway, today was awesome. We went to NHK, which is like this amazing tv station in Japan, and we did the tour… I don’t have time to talk all about it, but it was really fun! I got to record a short anime voiceover with other friends on the tour, see how they broadcast news (almost got to read and be on the tv example program but another guy in the tour beat me in a game of jan ken pon), see many different stuffed creatures, see a 3D movie that was really trippy and kind of hurt my eyes a little after, and see tv shows going on live from above. How cool! I had a lot of fun too because it was so kid-friendly, and it was really interactive. I felt like I was having as much fun as the little kids on tours around us. Some of the JWU students took some of us EAP kids on this trip, which I really was looking forward to. I want to maybe do commercials here, so I just need a hookup at NHK and maybe I’ll get the opportunity to make some money and do something really random and fun! D:
I really enjoyed hanging out with one of the girls I met today from JWU, Momoko! (Her name means Peach Child in Japanese). She was so nice and fun to hang out with! And I really enjoyed talking to her. I spoke so much Japanese today! And so fast! I feel amazing. Obviously I’m not great but I’m getting better everyday! Mainichi takusan naraimasu!!

Class wasn’t too bad either since I went to bed early last night and was totally awake the whole time. I am LEARNING from that example I have set for myself and going to bed EARLY so I can be alive in class tomorrow. It really made a difference in my enjoyment of Japanese today.

After NHK, some people went home, and the rest of us convened in an English pub in Shibuya! It was really fun. We went right at the beginning of happy hour, so drinks were much cheaper. I drankkkk a lot and it wasn’t even expensive. I started out with REALLY cheap drinks, but at the end I was getting pretty drunk and ordered myself a white tarantula, which was apparently one of the strongest drinks in this bar. You can imagine how I felt after :P

Loved the atmosphere, had fun with my eap friends and my new friends, and I met quite a few international people just by waiting in line for drinks or randomly talking to them with my friends. I actually took a dare from a couple of my friends and was about to get these guys from Holland to buy me a drink, but then everyone else wanted to go watch fireworks, so they took me with them. I didn’t want to stay with those guys anyway lol, I just wanted the drink and to win that bet! Hahaha. Everyone else was like “I don’t know how to get someone to buy me a drink!” I was like “Guys… it’s not that hard.” I haven’t even been to bars in America besides like… 18+ clubs, and I guess the only experience I have with that was getting guys to buy me drinks on my 19th birthday when we went to that club in SF, but I mean, seducing or even just whittling your way into a man’s alcohol cabinet/secret stash at a party in sb is the same sort of deal. MAN I am sounding pretty ridiculous right now. BUT it’s totally true. And it’s a skill any true lady needs. At least a lady who wants to have a good time and save cash. :D

After we went to the fireworks in Harajuku, which were beautiful and sparkly and awesome…. BUT, it was SOOOOO crowded and hot, and literally everyone needed to pee (takusan osake o nomimashita, neeeee), so we left after a bit to find a bathroom, chat a bit, exchange numbers, and then say goodbye to the JWU students! They were SOOOO nice. I really enjoyed this group of them.

Anyway, now I’m back and I am GOING TO BED so I can be awake in class tomorrow! I love you all!
P.S. I bought an amazing 990 yen skirt that is white and BEAUTIFUL! It has buttons and it’s silky and straight and medium length and I look sooo gooooodd in it. It looks really classy too. I needed one. Yay for Zara’s sale racks! My friend Taylor wasn’t joking when she said they were cheap!