Lonely Planet lies

Today I met Rachel and went to Ginza. Ginza was I think the first place in Tokyo to be westernized and has the location of the first McDonalds and such. Rachel had mapped out some places in her Lonely Planet Tokyo book for us to visit. The first thing we set out to find was a park. And we found it after 30-40 minutes of walking. They were about to open the Edo Festival. Edo is a period in Japanese ages and also the former name of Tokyo before 1850's. So then we decided to see the supposed "must-see" Godzilla statue. Then we found out we had found the wrong park. Oh well, it was still neat. So onto the Godzilla event. We went looking all over for this thing. And we almost died laughing when we saw it. It was maybe at the most a meter tall. The dumb book had made it seem like a big statue that would be impressive. Then we wanted to head over to this place called "Magazine World". According to the book it was to have magazines from all over the world and you can sit down and read them. Once again, another lie from lonely planet. There was one floor of magazines from Japan. And it was only 2 or 3 magazine titles. Not from all over the world. So we took the elevator up to see if maybe it was on another floor. A nice man on the elevator thought we looked confused so he asked us where we were going. Since I had no idea he sent us to a random 6th floor. It was an office. And so were the rest of the floors. Liers. Then we headed over to the Sony Building. It was actually neat and not a lie. Every floor up the the 6th floor had all sorts of displays. You could try out all the new stuff. And on the 6th floor it was all video games. Good times. After that we decided Ginza was a lost cause and went to Shinjuku. We looked around for a while and I went off to go to work and Rachel stayed to see more sights.

The first class I taught tonight was 2 7 year old boys. They were really quiet and good little students. When we were practicing numbers they kept on trying to mimic exactly how I was counting on my hand. Pretty funny. The next class I had was in someone's basement. They called it a "studio" since the mom teaches a ballet class there, but to me it was a basement with a mirror. There were 5 girls. I think 4 were 10 and one was 8. They were quite energetic and pretty eager to learn. Which is good. They were really funny and tried to ask me all the questions they knew in english. So I'm now officially "Scott-sensei".