I really can't remember what I did on the 26th or 27th day of March, probably nothing special if I can't remember anything... :D BUT I do remember what I did on the 28th day of March!
So on the 28th day of March we went to Akihabara with otou-san and okaa-san to buy a new TV (and searching for the limited edition of PS3 which is probably impossible to find from a store [at least a new one, that is.]). So we went around stores searching for the perfect TV and took a taxi to some other place near Akihabara (can't remember the name of that place). There we finally found the right TV and after that FOOOOD! Well we didn't actually know what we wanted to eat so we walked around and ended up waiting to get into some famous ramen restaurant, but the line continued inside the restaurant so it could have taken even an hour or more so we gave up and went to eat 天ぷらそば (Tempura soba). Tempura is deep-fried food (usually vegetables, fish and shrimps), its roots are in Portugal. Soba is a type of thin noodle that is made from buckwheat flour. I think that's the food I've eaten here the most. Well it is really good, but still. :D After eating we went back to Akihabara by a train this time and then okaa-san parted ways with me and otou
-san. We went around shops with otou-san searching for the precious limited edition of PS3, but found out that it's next to impossible. After hanging a couple of hours in Akihabara we went back to home and after that I can't remember anything from Sunday. But I think that actually was the whole Sunday, and a nice Sunday it definitely was. Totally different than what I am used to in Finland.Can't remember what happened on Monday except that we were arranging a meeting between me and Julia, but she had some trouble with her host-parents. Well everything turned out well and we would meet on the next day. OH YEAH, on Monday Aya's (my host-sister) friend was here and I fed her some salmiakki and the reaction was the usual one. Wincing and finally spitting it out. Then she tasted one turkinpippuri and same kind of reaction, except that we told her to bite it open and after she did that she literally screamed. :D
On Tuesday I went to Kichijōji with Aya's friend (because she too was going to meet her friend over there, coincidence...?) by a train from Motoyawata station (a JR line (Japan railway) station near my host family's house). From Motoyawata station it took about one hour to Kichijōji (had to change the train in the middle of the trip) and over there I met Julia and her host-mother. After that her host-mother left and it was just the two of us. I think the first thing we did was going to Book Off to search for cds... I bought four cds, three from ORANGE RANGE and one single from ナイトメア （Nightmare). Btw, I saw too cool Neon Genesis Evangelion earphones, gonna buy 'em someday. D888
We bought the cds and then we decided to head towards a game arcade where all the purikura machines were (Can't find an article about purikura in English on Wikipedia, sorry. Well basically it's about posing when the pictures are taken and then decorating the pictures with random stuff). Or so we were supposed to, but first we ended up wandering on this one shopping street and going to the temple/graveyard area, which you can see in the picture above (Julia's harassing the graveyard D88). Then we went back to the shopping street and THE grandpa came to ask us if we saw the cherry blossom trees and took pictures etc. He was a little bit creepy... D8 I was feeling hungry so we went to eat at Moss Burger, which is honestly way better than McDonald's. :D The food looked really fresh, totally different from McDonald's and it tasted better.
Off from Moss Burger, this time we were honestly headed towards the game arcade. After walking around a little bit we finally found the entrance to the arcade and went in. The first thing you see is a room full of arcade games, and basically... that's everything. :D Well the room was huge and had lots of game machines. But our destination were the purikura photo booths. We fighted our way through all the machines and yattaa, finally we were there. First impression: Feminine. It was somehow a little shock seeing so many people at those purikura booths and well at first it seemed I was the only male there.. I wasn't, gladly. We took a lot of pictures, but for now I'll only put this one here. Maybe I'll put some more later, maybe. :D
After purikura a thought flashed through the mind, we had forgotten that we were also supposed to go to this one park where they had boats you could row in a pond. We didn't
have so much time left so we started searching for the place. Meaning that we headed to the station and from there we first went to McDonald's (WC, large fries for 150 yen = 1,25€ and MacPork). So, we didn't have much time left and we were in a hurry. We headed towards the park and in the midway grabbed crepes, which were so good omg. (Julia has a lot of the pictures, so I'll try to get them to myself and post some of 'em later). But yeah, we continued our walking and the street turned to remind of one of those places in Southern Europe where's some restaurant with a grill and this wooooonderful smell comes from it. It really felt like you've changed countries suddenly. We walked down little stairs and there we were. The park opened before our eyes and we could see lots of people having a picnic next to the cherry blossom trees, which about half of them had bloomed. So I did tell you about the boats earlier. Well, we took the swam boat which costed about 700 yen which is about 5,85€... It was so much fun and I really want to go there again. We listened to Dir en Grey's Macchiavellism aka Mökkiävellism and the song really got a new dimension to it. ::D Well after going around with our swam boat we had to go back to the station where Julia's host-father was waiting for us. There we parted ways, and I headed back
to Motoyawata station.Back at Motoyawata station I met okaa-san. We went to an okonomiyaki restaurant and ate *tididididiii* okonomiyaki. We also ate yakisoba and monjayaki (I'm pretty sure it was this one). Everything was really good. After that we went to Shapo (kind of a shopping mall inside the train station and under the railway) to buy some fruits (I've eaten so much strawberries while being here, but it's the season over here at the moment :D). And that was the end of Tuesday the 30th of March.
Well... This update took a lot more time than I thought it would... Mostly, because I was avoiding writing this and did something else all the time like went to eat fugu with okaa-san and otou-san, but more about that later. So, I didn't get to write about too much after all even I wrote this much text. I'll try to write more possibly tomorrow, but you know me... ;D But now I think I'll head to bed as it is already 1:10 am and I'm supposed to wake up at 7 am... D888 Sleepy sleeps!
P.S. I still don't have PS3... XDD
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