Ikebukuro, supervisor's place, life. 1 month anniversary in Japan lol

Weather: humid and hot

Well, days are moving along. Really quickly. I don't know where the time goes. I'm wondering if I'm being productive at work... Everything's a blur @_@. After I get back from japanese lessons, work or some event after work, I'm pooped, make dinner, pig out, internet, shower, and that's it! Weekends I go out but they go by really quickly too. :( I've been here for a month now, wahoo, it's my 1 month anniversary with Japan commemorating our first meeting. :)


It's what happens when I leave my blog for a while, I forget what I want to say. It's probably not too interesting anyways. Ikebukuro. Not bad. It's called Sunshine city but unforutnately it was raining that day. Still okay. We went up Sunshine 60, a building that has 60 levels. I loved the elevator ride up to the top floor. It was like we were in some mini planetarium! moving at... 600m/s or something like that @_@ forgot. Walked around, did some sightseeing. We also went to Namjatown, an amusement part in a shopping center. It was amazing. I could spend the whole day there ( i think) There's a lot to see and do especially if you speak japanese, there's all these areas you can go to and solve some puzzle... Saw some people going around to stations and doing other various activities. Went into this haunted house for 600 yen. Not sure if it was worth it but it was a new experience anyhow. Different from the type of haunted houses you see in Fright night. You go around with this scary skull like thing, take pictures at stations and you walk through dark hallways... Things pop up at you.. Much less scarier than the ones at fright night actually. XD There was also this area for desserts and another area with GYOZA tons and tons of gyoza everywhere. Apparently that's where all the top gyoza chefs make their gyoza. haha pretty neat. Both Namjatown and Sunshine 60 is a good place for couples to hang out ;). We went back to sunshine 60 at night to see the night view and there were soo many couples. We even spotted a couple making out on one of the couches with heart pillows... Moving on..
At night we were hungry, the guys wanted to check out an izakaya, found one we wanted to go, waited 40 min but they didn't give us a table (while the other people did, was it because our group was big? but stilll!) We left pissed and found a nice okonmiyaki place nearby. The waitress was kind and we had free vanilla icecream :D.

On sunday I was invited to my supervisor's place. His wife made us some good food and I learned how to play a popular game called Hanafuda. My supervisor remembered how much I loved matcha so he even got matcha warabi for us all to eat. How kind. Too kind. How can I repay him :( Oh good thing i bought that ice wine from the liquor store downtown before I arrived. They really liked the ice wine. The bottle was wayy too small though. There were 6 of us and all of us only had like... two gulps of it. eh.

The end. I feel exhausted. I didn't have a good sleep last night, couldn't fall asleep and slept around 2 ish... woke up at 5:30am thinking it was 5:30PM.. I was like "omg f** I missed a whole days of work" I think this is a symptom of post traumatic stress disorder from sleeping in and being 2 hrs late for work two weeks ago...

I was going to add photos but blogspot wont let me. Oh well. I guess I'll have to live with a chunk of text.

Dinner in Yokosuka, and arcade

Today, after work, I met up with a few japan co-op friends, went out for dinner and walked around a bit.
Sooo full. We ate at a restaurant called Yayoiken and it had all you can eat rice. I chose a dish with ...fried meat and ... an egg... etc. Lol. I dont think I would go again. I have rice all the time =_=.

All you can eat rice at Yayoiken

matcha cakes from candy land.

After dinner, we were all full and it was still 8 pm so we walked around for a bit. I wanted to go to my favourite candy shop near the station so I can get my chewy candy for work.. haha (to keep myself awake in the mornings/after lunch). I also bought myself another one of those mini cookies (like yesterday's matcha cookies, this time it's chocolate). Finally, another item to add to my matcha collection, matcha cakes! they're all packaged and neat, nto that great tasting in my opinion tho. Only 198 yen for 6.

okashi no machioka - candy!!!!!

Arcade
While walking around I wanted to check out an arcade because they're everywhere. the one we went to was about... 5 floors?! first two were game machines where you try to grab prizes.. with the grabbing thingy. hahah. Yeah... most of them were 100 yen, but it seems impossible to win anything. We saw a guy testing the machine, and one of the co-ops i was with (who was also here last year) told us that they do that so it's impossible to win anything lol. What's the pointttt!!! ARgh. The next floor was more of a casino floor, you buy tokens and you try to win more tokens... There was horse racing, slot machines, and coin pushing machines... and mario party!!! it was awesome. The next floor was an arcade, where most people were... the games were pretty cool. One game you actually have cards.. and yeah not going into details because I don't really know but it was awesome.

Mario party - win!

TONsss of one piece prizes

Calorie mate?! how random can they get? X_X

Monday, June 13 2011
Backtrack. So this day, a lot of my coworkers finished their important presentations etc. so we went to celebrate at an izakaya at yokosukachuo station. Before that.... I had to go home and wait for my bank card.... (i dont understand why they cant just leave it in my mail box =_=) Anyways, when i got it, i forgot that I needed keys... the thing is with my dorm, there are 2 doors I have to pass before I get to my own room... and those doors lock automatically... sooo basically I was locked out of the second door... and I had nothing but the stupid bank card. I had to wait for someone to come back so I can get back to my room. (where everything is!!!) I thought I would be locked out for at least 2 hrs because I dont really hear anyone come home till 9 or something. But I was lucky and someone came back and I only had to wait around half an hour.
The izakaya was awesome... old fashioned, traditional! The company paid for my drinks ( i didnt know that until afterwards..) but I had some pretty cool drinks lol. I had this strawberry... soju? not sure supervisor said it was a korean drink. Then I had a matcha milk alcoholic drink, then a coffee jelly drink yummy. hahah. Before I came I actually had udon, and there wasnt much to eat anyways. My supervisor brought me around the room and I met a few people from a different floor in our office. I already forgot most of their names.. all except one or two .. one of them told me he would lend me his rice cooker from the US. lol!