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Day 2: the picture day!
Jul. 27th, 2008 05:14 amSince I have the leisure to do so this year, I thought I'd start posting pictures now instead of waiting forever and posting them in one massive overwhelming bunch. Besides, my day wasn't so exciting as I pretty much managed to
a) find my way to my school campus, which may take up to 45 min to get to from door to door - but on the good side one of the administrators was actually there and informed me I don't have to be on campus until 9 am tomorrow instead of 8:30 (yay!)
b) eat lunch at a little cafe
c) go to Rikugien Koen (Rikugien Gardens). The garden reproduces in miniature 88 scenes from famous poems - although I didn't actually wander around to every single scene, I did see a bunch, and all of them were beautiful.
d) discover the "little" grocery store in my neighborhood is actually a 5-story ... department store with a food component in the bottom. I got dinner and an alarm clock! And I'm seriously thinking about going back to the housewares section to get myself a second comforter, since I'm actually using my first one as padding because the mattress is so lumpy.
( To start off the photo tour, you get the neighborhood I'm living in as seen from my 4th floor window. )
( Now, photos from my garden adventures )
Finally, once I got back home this afternoon it had started to rain, including lightening and thunder that I could see in the distance reflecting off the buildings. At one point the sunset turned everything an almost starteling deep yellow-orange color, and low and behold, I saw a rainbow!
( That's right folks, a rainbow over Tokyo. )
So there you have it - day two in all it's glory. I'm sacking out early tonight with a movie and some JapanesePodcast language lessons to get ready for class tomorrow, after which I will continue my search for a cell phone (which was, again, the only thing on my personal agenda that didn't get done today). I checked online and it appears there are only *certain locations* where I can pick one of these suckers up, or I have to order it online and get it mailed to me. So I'll be heading to the depths of (or possibly wilds of?) Shibuya in search of the mythical pre-paid cell.
a) find my way to my school campus, which may take up to 45 min to get to from door to door - but on the good side one of the administrators was actually there and informed me I don't have to be on campus until 9 am tomorrow instead of 8:30 (yay!)
b) eat lunch at a little cafe
c) go to Rikugien Koen (Rikugien Gardens). The garden reproduces in miniature 88 scenes from famous poems - although I didn't actually wander around to every single scene, I did see a bunch, and all of them were beautiful.
d) discover the "little" grocery store in my neighborhood is actually a 5-story ... department store with a food component in the bottom. I got dinner and an alarm clock! And I'm seriously thinking about going back to the housewares section to get myself a second comforter, since I'm actually using my first one as padding because the mattress is so lumpy.
( To start off the photo tour, you get the neighborhood I'm living in as seen from my 4th floor window. )
( Now, photos from my garden adventures )
Finally, once I got back home this afternoon it had started to rain, including lightening and thunder that I could see in the distance reflecting off the buildings. At one point the sunset turned everything an almost starteling deep yellow-orange color, and low and behold, I saw a rainbow!
( That's right folks, a rainbow over Tokyo. )
So there you have it - day two in all it's glory. I'm sacking out early tonight with a movie and some JapanesePodcast language lessons to get ready for class tomorrow, after which I will continue my search for a cell phone (which was, again, the only thing on my personal agenda that didn't get done today). I checked online and it appears there are only *certain locations* where I can pick one of these suckers up, or I have to order it online and get it mailed to me. So I'll be heading to the depths of (or possibly wilds of?) Shibuya in search of the mythical pre-paid cell.
