I seem to be over the worst of my jetlag but i do sit in front of my computer, at 10:30 this Monday evening, my homework for tomorrow mostly done and season 2 of sex and the city under my belt.

A quick review of my weekend:

Saturday- rain in the morning so I took my shiny umbrella out for the morning. Me, Ping, Tip, and Hyden spent about 12 hours walking around Tokyo. We went to Shinjuku first- went to Kinokuniya bookstore, looked in on a few fun stores, had lunch at a ramen place in Kabukicho. Kabukicho is certainly what you hear- love hotels, pachinko parlours, dirty cabarets and AV places, host clubs! I found it extremely amusing to look at all the photos outside the host clubs and admire the pretty people. Of course, they were all over-coiffed skinny people with fake tans, but those guys certainly know how to dress!

After exploring shinjuku for a couple of hours we went back to Akihabara so Ping and I could buy our Nintendo DS with denshi jisho software, hung around an arcade or two, went on a search for a maid cafe. Outside Akihabara station there were flyer girls galore dressed in maid outfits, cosplay, and somethng that looked like retro 60s flight attendants.

Then we went back to Kabukicho for dinner at a gyuudon place where I had my first beer in a couple of weeks with some spicy gyuudon. yum yum face! Kabukui cho was certainly different by night. The streets were packed with young teens and adults on the prowl. Host club men and women were out soliciting in the streets; we followed one couple to see where they were going and Ping was disappointed when they went to a host club instead of a love hotel. I think he mentioned dressing me up as I am the only female and seeing if they can get an old guy to pick me up so they could get some firsthand love hotel experience. As i doubt I'll be back to Japan in the next couple of years, it is a distinct possibility for the future ;P

And outside a shot restaurant there were at least (and i exaggerate not) 8 people lying seemingly cmoatose in the area in front of it, in their own vomit.

I have never seen that much puke in a public place EVER.

ewww.

And then it was back home, feet killing me and desperately wanting a massage.

Sunday the guys planned to go to Asakusa but I decided to spend the day relaxing. Woke up around 9 (uber late for me), watched sex and the city, had some breakfast, then cleaned up the apartment. Went grocery shopping and filled up my fridge in an effort to make my own lunches so i won't have to buy it at the campus cafeteria and save some money!

That was pretty much sunday. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Which is nice, b/c the boys tell me there was a festival in Asakusa so it was extremely crowded- i don't think i could have dealt with that many people =/

Today was our first full day of classes- I went by myself this morning and managed to make every train and got to school 10 mins early. But I was definitely one of those people smushed up against the window b/c it was so full.

So, I get to class and I hear this german guy from the class across the hall talking to the guy at the front desk and saying things like "there it is", or "it's not there". SLightly confused, i look towards the door, hear the german guy shriek, and into the classroom comes a rat.

A rodent. A mouse. Something with four legs and a tail.

I am immediately up on the desk, shrieking, and in runs the front desk guy, trying to whack it with an umbrella. It ran out of the classroom, i am still up on the desk, and the german guy comes in and tells me they flushed it down the sink. I immediately decide I am never using that washroom again...

Classes seem okay and will get to know more about them as the week progresses. After school was done at 4:10 hopped onthe train with Stacey and Eric to head home and the rest of the afternoon was spent watching more sex and the city, doing homework, and doing absolutely nothing

good stuff.