Himakaso Minamichita-cho

... as you do on a bike, and I ended up turning left about 3 blocks too early. The up side of this has been that my conversations revolving around directions have improved immensley.

2. My use of tense in Japanese is atrocious. I found this out when my scary policeman host-father told me - your tenses are atrocious. Embarrassing, yes. But, patient man that he is, he corrects me ...

... and had no idea what I could possibly do at that sort of hour, besides gamble on pachinko, I grabbed my book (which I had started & finished on the 12hr flight) and re-read all the good bits. By the time I had done that, showered and put the first couple of entries into my sexy new blog, it was time to gather my belongings that were strewn all over the tiny room and check out.

I left the hotel at about 9:30 ...

... lecz nie po to przyjechaliśmy na Suzuka.

Jedno z ciekawszych doświadczeń to Pitlane Walk, czyli spacer po alei serwisowej i możliwość podejrzenia przygotowań poszczególnych teamów. Żeby nie było wątpliwości – nie były to ćwiczenia pokazowe, lecz prawdziwe przygotowanie do zawodów. Każdy zespół zajęty był swoimi obowiązkami, a zwiedzający mogli przyglądać si ...

... what I say bigger than life). So we shot the **** at Starbucks, had some funky coffees (at least it was funky for me), visited a music shop and killed time. Bought a guitar strap with some funky Japanese demons on it, and called it a night.
Probably one of the best experiences in Japan so far.

Pictures will follow when I get back this weekend. I'll probably write the entry for this weekend when I get back, as I'll want to keep this a little more fresh than a month past.

We did the usual disembarkation and re-boarding to go through security in Nagoya. I threw the Japanese quarantine inspectors into a tizzy. I saw there was no line for the security checkpoint and didn't see them at the far end of where the line normally is, so I jumped the barrier and almost violated their quarantine. The decided I didn't have swine flu and let me through. I had only a few minutes between when I got to the gate and we started to board.

... wish me luck, pray for me, and thank you for always supporting and believing in me. Thank you for reading this lengthy post. Just by seeing my words, you are spurring me onwards. Once was lost, but now am found, your friend and brother, Drew p.s. A special thank you to Wendy and Amanda for their perfectly timed emails. I don`t know how you two feel, but for me I could see God`s hand at work there. Thanks you two, I would have given ...

... still ambivalent about organized religion, but it was a rather nice awkwardness-cleansing my hands and mouth at the purification fountain, and bowing/clapping at the shrines--I even said a prayer (for safe travels) at one of the public shrines. Not a bad day in all; even got up the nerve to ask a Japanese man to take my picture on a bridge leading to the auxillary shrine Kazahinominomiya.

Tomorrow...Nara.

... that because she was drunk. I mentioned how I liked strawberries and then Tencho was like oh we have strawberries so I had those as well and then a banana and even chocolate (and yes this was at about 5:30 in the morning). Talk about good hospitality. Tencho had this really really cool toy it was literally a pet dinosaur. But you pet it and it was like it was alive. It was so cute! it would even make the kissing sound if you touched its ...

... fish! Oh funny thing about the fish, it totally looked like there was a baby fish within the fish, but yes I still ate it. Wednesday was fairly uneventful, went through the level three test, no wonder I didn't understand the test, half the concepts I wasn't taught. Picked up my t-shirt from tye-dying and finished three out of my four essays.Dinner was carrots wrapped in beef, oden, spinach and egg soup and of course salad.

... chocolate donut :P) and then I headed home. I met the oldest sister who actually knows the most english and she took me to Softbank to try and get a cel phone, I found out it might be more trouble than it's worth to bring one home though...for dinner that night I had a cabbage chicken roll, this really good potato salad, some more green stuff (don't actually know what it was, it was good) and of course nasu (egg plant). The next day Emily, Roxy and I helped out for Aoyama's ...