Some more pictures and stuff

Here are some random thoughts and pictures for you. Probably kind of inter-dispersed.

Our good gaijin brit friend Harriet had to leave Japan a bit earlier than the rest of us. So we had a goodbye shindig for her last Saturday. We had a good group of: exchange students, Be-bop accapella choir group, some guy named cheetah, Hiroko from the international office, the same guy who introduced himself to us earlier as a "small Japanese man" and many other interesting people. Needless to say, it was a good time. We even ended up somehow getting free karaoke out of the whole thing somehow.


Nikolaus and Quentin waiting at Iidabashi. I figured out different things you can do with the camera.


Iidabashi at night. Iidabashi is right by our uni. This street used to be some sort of famous shopping street at one time.



Crazy Aiko and flash



Hollie, Hiroko and the QQ song CD



Harriet and I



The sunset the other night



When I went to Yasukuni the other day. Hosei in the background.



A big door with the seal of Yasukuni and a lot of old people.



Greenery at Yasukuni



Our Japanese 3b class. Simon is there in the back doing his sort of "i'm a cult father with my precious children" pose.



I got bored the other day in class and gave Koizumi some makeup. I think he looks fabulous.



The ashtray outside of a convience store. How cute. Smoking is so cute in this country. Not like the anti-smoking nazis of the western world. Everyone has a right to lung cancer and impotence in this country.



These are kind of weird. These are signs telling you not cross the road. Usually these signs have this generic guy in a suit and top hat (you can see a normal sign in the first picture up there). But the first signs look like a martian or something and the second signs looks like a creepy stalker kind of guy. Maybe they live around there.

Well that is enough for now. I'm going to be climbing Fuji (hopefully) tomorrow. So that should be another good picture oppurtunity. A friend of mine went the other day and she said it was bearable. So I'm pumped and ready.