Tokyo

 

 As I said before, I was in Tokyo last week for Fulbright orientation. It was like breakfast club, only the principal in our movie is really awesome (his name is Dr. Satterwhite and he is freaking awesome). Of course, there was the cool guy, the tough guy, the hot girl, etc, but it was only at lunch that I realized I was the dirty/dumb guy (my clothes smelled and I was pretty messed up looking). I can’t tell. Anyway, it was pretty fun and the other Fulbrighters were pretty cool (besides being huge nerds). I got to learn about all their projects, some of which I am really jealous like the guy that is going to go camping and mountain climbing all year. I also toured Tokyo and saw most of the famous sites. It was alright, but I want to see more rural stuff, like where Dave is (http://traditionaljapanesedancemoves.wordpress.com/). 

 

One very cool thing I got to do, that Dave didn’t, was attend a party hosted by the Deputy Chief of Mission to the Ambassador of Japan. It was really nice and we met a lot of people (some of the nerdier Fulbrighters met a lot more people than everyone else!). They had really good food and everyone there seemed very very important or just arrogant. I will probably never again go to a classier party than that one in my life. 

By the way, WordPress is a pain in my お尻, and it won’t easily let me process pictures, so I’m just going to post a few of my favorites and do the rest later. 

Here are some old people doing tai-chi in Shinjuku National Park:

Here is the famous shrine in Asakusa, Senso-ji, can you spot the three nerds? 

Here is a great big pagoda at Senso-ji. It reminds me of the Ninja village in Final Fantasy VII. In fact, a lot of things in Japan reminds of something I’ve seen in a video game (think silent hill), I have been planning a post about just that topic.

I see these everywhere, they don’t actually smell like pot, what good would that be?

Meiji Jingu:

Shopping arcade at Harujuku. Apparently it’s famous, or so said one of the nerdy Fulbrighters that brought me there.

And that’s all for now. I think I’ll be heading back to Tokyo this weekend to hang out with some homeys and newly acquired homeys, either that or stay in Tsukuba and make myself known at the local foreigner scene.