Ok, It has been nice going out with gaijins (foreigners) but what about the actual Japanese outings you know? the more traditional side of things? I was lucky enough to experience just that. Keiko took me out to experience the Japanese side of a night out. After meeting up with Keiko and two friends of [...]
I believe the last entry was about meeting people and just being open about traveling. I guess the new entry can be about something else: being careful and aware of your surroundings. Still all excited about meeting so many new people at my friends BBQ, I tried to contact a few of them regarding going out. Denis, a Russian [...]
A college friend of mine, Yusuke, moved back to Japan after graduating so I met up with him for an outing over the weekend: some type of BBQ with friends where few people actually knew each others. That sounded perfect for me to practice the few words of Japanese I had learned after a month [...]
On the more traditional side of things, I managed to get my hands on a bike, an actual full fledged mountain bike, with the added bonus of being a foldable bike using a hex key in the middle to fold the frame in half, ain’t life grand? So I have been doing some random biking [...]
After being here for some time, you get to understand a few things that didn’t make sense previously. Japan is ferociously traditional, and wants to be presented likeso. This can be seen in the slogan that claims that the past greets the future here. Indeed I was intrigued by all the girls in yukatas in [...]
I always dreamed of Akihabara as my heaven when I was a kid and in love with video games, so naturally it was one of the first excursions in the city… And it was somewhat like I imagined, except none of it was in a language I understood, which semi-ruined it for me. Akihabara is [...]
