So, I was at Tokyo yesterday ^_^ Tokyo Tower to be exact. I didn't go anywhere else or really get a nice tour of Tokyo. I did however get lots of video and pictures of just being in the tower and the of view from there. Then there's video from being on the bus. I started making the video but it's seriously turning out as crap. I found like the perfect song (by Puffy AmiYumi) but then I was putting it all together and I'm seriously hating it. Why? It seems that unlike my other videos there's no talking in this one and it's making it very dullll. Actually there isn't at all except the background noises and they are reallyyy annoying and boring when included. Like on the tour bus you just hear the lady go on and it's annoying. Another reason why it's dull is because there's no action. It's really only of buildings moving pass. Well, I haven't published the video yet so I'll wait till you tell me. Should I keep the audio (well, in most of the videos) or should I just go with none? (For some reason I think I already know the answers I'll get). But yeah, This video is going to be crap, I apologize.
To begin off I'm going to talk about a toilet. Yes, a toilet, well the bathroom to be exact. So I was stuck in this place called Big Sight for a few hours. When you go to the bathroom in the bathrooms there there's this speaker in each stall and when you start to pee it'll start making noise of like a river against rocks flowing to block the sound from other people hearing you. It was sooo weird and cool. Then in order to flush it, no they couldn't give you a simple leaver to pull, there was this screen and it said that you had to cover it with your hand to make it flush. haha such a technological bathroom. If only the ones at school were this cool. By the way, I refuse to use a squat toilet, they scare me (and yes, I've used one already. I hated it). Luckily this place had a normal one. So, there's really nothing to say about that "Big" place. I got a picture of a sleeping man though. I had to. But all day it rained. As I'm sure most of you don't know there's a typhoon coming through Japan. It hasn't hit Hitachi yet (well, at least I don't think. Nothing serious happened yet and we're right along the ocean so you would think something would...). But it rained the entire day at Tokyo. Kinda ruined all my pictures and video, but I managed. What it really ruined though was when we went to the mall before the tower. I could have gotten some great pictures of Rainbow Bridge (it's supposedly famous but it was the first time I've heard of it) and some video but that was on the outside walking space of the mall and it was POURING. Boo, you suck rain.
I was hoping to do some shopping. NOOO!!! We didn't go shopping at all. We didn't even stop at a clothing store to browse. We weren't even at the mall long at all! I would say like 45 minutes, not even. There was this floor though that was set up as kinda like an old Japan. In that area otoo-san told me to sit at one of those caricature (spelled wrong?) places. Now, this wasn't like those insane creepy looking ones. The people actually drew you correctly and depending on what time you selected for them to draw you (the longer you chose the more money but they colored you in then with pastel crayons) and oh my gosh. Those pictures of the pastels looked like actual photographs. I skimmed through it slightly in a video, watch for it. But I got the lowest time, 5 minutes, and holy crap, the Japanese are amazing artists. Look at this!!
Tell me that isn't amazing. I wish I could do that. So, that was really the only exciting thing about the mall. There was a section called Muscle Park though where it was filled with all these games to test you skill and strength. For example, there was a frisbee throwing contest. Then we headed back to Big Sight again. Not long there we waited and then we were off on the tour bus to Tokyo Tower! I wish I got a picture of him but I didn't. Tokyo Tower's mascot looks nothing like the tower at all. It's like a pink version of a Japanese white radish. Terrible haha. There was a Mc Donalds and a Chinese restaurant at the bottom and tons of gift shops. After the tour of the tower we all went to eat at the Chinese restaurant. The tower was amazing though (except the body odor from the many people in the squished elevator). It seriously gives you a great view of Tokyo if that's what you really wanna see. I can't really say much about it. I'm not sure how to explain. Just look at the pictures. Now, this is where I'm mad at the rain again. I couldn't really get good pictures of things farther away (such as Rainbow Bridge) because it was foggy, otherwise the photos are great. After that there was a Guinness World Records exhibition in the tower and we went through it. It was interesting and fun, I ran every time I saw the lady with the building eyes. That's is seriously creepy and wrong. With us there was this little boy. He seemed scared of me at first, always glancing at me then hiding but he eventually warmed up and he was so cute haha. Isn't he? ^_^
I won't have an album of those pictures just yet, I'm really busy at the moment only really able to post this. So it may be a few day for that, even longer for the video. For one thing I still didn't finish that powerpoint, which I need to finish by Wednesday night and tomorrow is equinox, it's a national holiday here (yay! No school!) and I'm visiting the family tomb in Mito City. I'm debating on video and picture on that yet. It may be rude.
But I got a tower souvenir and a glow-in-the-dark pig keychain ^_^ It was cute and I wanted it. We left the tower at night and it was even more amazing. It was all lit up and sooo cool. And that was my adventure in Tokyo. I hope I can go sometime in the future and get to REALLY experience it. Go see Harajuku and Shibuya. Hopefully soon. Ooh! And today until April 7, 2013 I'm an official resident of Hitachi! I just got my card today (I'll take a picture of it eventually). I can live here now if I want ^_^ until I have to renew it in 2013 but how cool is that? I can come back in even 2 years and be perfectly fine if I want to live here for awhile.
After that I was taken to this clothing store, not in the mall, and kinda forced to get sweatpants. Okaa-san was going to pay for them (I made sure she didn't of course) but I love how they just made the decision that I needed them haha. I find it quite funny, I'm not mad at all. I guess they don't like my pjs haha. I actually wanted to get a pair anyway. So basically today was the first clothes shopping I've done while here. I found this awesome shirt while here so I got that as well. I loveee it ^_^ but on the back it says "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise". The front has a skull on it with the words "Discontent is the first step in progress". What the hell is with that? It looks so freaking awesome though.
And I've noticed something veryyy odd. All the clothing here, and I do mean ALL, have English on them. None have Japanese on them. I don't understand this concept. Why?? Seriously. The Japanese people here can't understand English, they're lucky if they can even pronounce it correctly when attempting to read it. Even so they don't understand it. They don't. So, why don't they just convert their country to English if they are so obsessed with it? I'm not saying they should, it's just a question of curiosity. All the clothes are in English. What is seriously so great about English? haha. So, even if there's some retarded saying on the shirt as long as it looks cool I'll buy it because people here don't understand it anyway, and anyway... practically all the shirts have the strangest sayings. So, let me know about what I should do with the video. And here's a few pictures until I can get an album posted.
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