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| alright, so to continue with the last entry, I'm about to talk about the club and the whole all nighter we did in Tokyo on Sat night.
After the porno shop and all that shit, we go find a convenient store, to buy some alcohol. Ryan kept telling me to get one of those mini kegs to drink right before the club, we went to hella stores but we couldn't find any so I ended up buying four of those tall cans of beer. Besto bought a small bottle of whiskey, can you imagine that, buying a small bottle of whiskey from a convenient store. So me with the four beers and Besto with the whiskey, we headed over to McDonalds to chill and drink before the club.
In front of McDonalds, we all played row sham bow to see who would take the first shot of whiskey. Of course Ryan lost and he took the first shot, turned out the shit wasn't bad. I don't know what type of cheapshit whiskey that was, but it was way better than JD or the shit they have here. Who says you get what you pay for, this was cheap shit and it was pretty smooth. While everyone else continued to finish off the small bottle of whiskey, I started drinking beers. By the time I finished the first beer, I was feeling pretty full and I had to piss. We all headed into the McDonalds so we could all piss and eat a little somehting before the club. At this point, I don't know where the hell Ryan was, but me and Besto were eating fries at one of the tables while the two girls were changing in the bathroom in preparation for later that night. What was funny was that while they were changing, a line started forming outside of the bathroom, I could tell one girl hella had to piss but she couldn't cause Irish and Kyoko were taking so long in the bathroom. I didn't say anything about it to them that night, but I'm saying it now, that was kinda fucked up, I thinkt he girl ended up going in the guys bathroom.
Finally, the time has come to go to the club. During the short walk over to Club Buenos, I drank two more of the four beers I had. By the time I got there, I was feeling pretty decent, alright I was feeling damn good. I was told that this club usually charges about 20 bucks to get in and you get two free drink tickets. We were some of the first people there, and fuck, you'd think we were back in the city, they were all checking my ID and shit like they knew what they were fucking looking at. I don't remember if the frisked us or not but they did check our bags and stuff. If we had any sort of beverage on us, they took it. I managed to take a big chug out of my water bottle before they took it, I'll admit though, dude was nice enough to let me drink some of the water before taking it away. Hid the beer though, I wrapped it in my shirt and and put it at the bottom of my bag......smart me huh. Turns out that since this was spring break, they were charging 30 bucks and giving out only 1 drink ticket. 30 bucks to get into a club, you'd think that it was fucking prom or something, shiiiit, that may have been more than what I payed at prom......scandelous. Cool thing about this club is that they had lockers where you could put your bags until you left.....cost a good couple of bucks though, but whatever, it was worth it.
I must say, this club was pretty cool, after you walk in, they have an upstairs area where they had tables where people can just chill. Downstairs was where the dance floor, bar, stage, and DJ was. At first it was pretty chill since we were some of the first people in there so we just chilled and had our first drink. Oh yeah, we saw another dorky white guy with a cute japanese girl, motherfucker was trying to dress all sophisticated and shit. Dood looked kinda old too to be hanging at a club like the one we were at. Anyway, funnything is that Besto is the one that pointed him out.....I noticed that Besto pointed out alot of those dorky white guys with cute Japanese girls out to me, I"m not sure if I"ve mentioned this before, but Bestos white.....so it is kinda strange that he jokes with me about those dorky white guys....anyway, he's dude is still a cool guy. After going off on a tangent, I'll continue with the club stuff. They had a list of drinks to get, I think the only drink I recognized was a long island, this was cool since long islands are what I get when I'm back home. Turns out the shit cost TWO drink tickets, if I had known that it would have cost that much, I wouldn't have got it.
So we're just chilling on the dance floor while the club is getting more packed. Man, all those beers I had are really going right through me, I'd say within the first half hour, I took about four pisses. I decide to get another drink and after looking at the drink menue for a while, I decided on getting a "blue hawaiian," I asked the bartender what it was made of and he showed me it was made of rum, some blue stuff, and orange juice.....so it's a fruity drink, whatever, at least it was good. They got these weak ass rules at these clubs, although you can get drinks with you drink ticket, each drink is 500 yen, which is just under 5 bucks....not bad for alcohol at a club. The kicker is that when you pay with cash, you can't just get one drink for 500 yen, you gotta get either two drinks for 1000 yen or give them 1000 yen and they give you one drink and one drink ticket.....again, scandelous. Right by the bar they had this funnyass sign that said soemthing about the club is a place of drinking and dancing so please refrain from the act of dancing, what the fuck is that. Go check out the picture of this sign at the picture site, I sent most of you the site with the pictures so go take a look at it.
A few blue hawaiians later I was feeling pretty damn good. By now we're all dancing and me and Besto are scoping out these two Japanese girls who were just standing at the wall. Let me say this again, in Japan, the dudes just practice their dance moves by themselves while the girls either just stand there or dance with eachother. I kept telling Besto to talk to the one on the left and I"ll talk to the one on the right. That night Besto wasn't feeling it or seomthing cause he was hella shy, this was strange cause I kept hearing how Besto be talking to hella girls out there. Finally I guess I asked this one girl to dance, I gotta say, out of all the girls I danced with that night, this girl really stood out. She seemed hella genuinely happy that I asked her to dance. After a while she and her friends had to go, so right before she left she bowed to me, she FUCKING BOWED to me, damn, I admit, I felt kinda guilty and flattered by this action. Chick was cool though, I gave her a hug and took a picture with her before she left. F
Funny thing happened with Besto, I wasn't there to see it, but supposedly some Japanese dude came up to Shannon, who automatically thought that the dude wanted to dance with him. Turns out the dude goes right past Shannon and tries to "battle" Besto on the dance floor. Besto, who is just standing there holding his drink, just looked at him and continued to do his own thing. Shannon, the whole time is looking for cute Japanese dudes to dance with, one guy she was thought was cute started to grind on her so Irish stopped dancing with him cause she was cool off that. A couple of hours into the club the "guest" rappers started. Fuck, I thought they we would get through the night without having all this bullshit. So like the first club we went to, everyone stopped what they were doing and watched the guest rappers do their shit on the stage. After a while they had dancers come up on the stage and dance......it felt like a fucking highschool talent show......pretty boring shit. Finally, after they finish, the DJ starts playing music again, so everyone gets back to dancing and shit. Alright, at this point, I'm there, I'm at that point that is so rare, I have the perfect buzz. I've drunk enough to feel damn good, but not enough to the point where I start doing stupid things and forgetting details about the night. I actually did try to get one more drink during this perfect buzz, but fortunately the line was hella long at the bar.....good thing I didn't drink more cause it may have ruined my night. Unfortunately they started again with that guest rapper shit, they should have been called whack rapper cause their raps were weak. It was a combo of Japanese and English, they should just fucking have the fucking DJ play music at these clubs. We waited a bit longer after they started rapping but I guess it was time to go anyway. Man, it felt like we were only in the club for like an hour, but when we left, it was already 4:30 in the morning. Time flies when you're having fun.
We were all pretty hungry after we left the club so went to a ramen place not far away. With the exception of me and Kyoko, everyone fell asleep at the table......some people just aren't made to party. At about 5am, we all head to the train station, Besto parted ways with us here, damn I'm gonna miss that guy and his laidback humor. Me, Irish, GB and Kyoko on the other hand, took a train to this 24 hour onsen place, if you don't know what an onsen is, look up Wednesdays entry. Fuck it, it's a bathhouse where you can just chill, sleep, whatever. At this point, we've been up all night in Tokyo, I'll continue with the story in another entry, too tired to finish up the day.
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| Sat, March 26
Now here is when the entries are gonna start getting
interesting, this is when we go to Tokyo to do the infamous "all
nighters." The day started pretty chill, jsut woke up, packed our
stuff, took the bus to the bus station and got on the bus for a three
hour ride to Tokyo.
Bus ride was cool, I slept for about an hour before
I woke up with the bus in traffic. Now I could not believe how
fucking bad the traffic was, it was worse than that shit you see on the
bay bridge around rush hour in SF. What was suppose to be a three
hour bus ride, turned into a four and a half hour bus ride. When
the bus finally reached the Tokyo train station, we put me and IRish's
luggage in a train locker. Now I was suppose to leave the next
day on Sunday afternoon, but since we got to Tokyo around 4:30pm, I
felt that I wasn't going to have much time to enjoy Tokyo, so I changed
my flight from Sunday, to Monday....the same day Irish was
leaving. With an extra to spend in Japan, we left for Harajuko
and Shibuya.
Harajuko is a district for the young people, Irish
was excited about seeing it cause she said Gwen Stephanie talked about
it in one of her songs. For the most part, it was like a tiney
bopper town. Hella kids that looked like they were in high school
were all there going to the different stores and just hanging
out. I couldn't believe how packed it was, imagine downtown SF
but replace everyone around you with high schoolers who came down there
to hangout. GB(Ryan) took me to something called a 380 yen store,
at this store everything is only 380 yen. This got me excited
cause 380 yen is just over $3.50. After going going to a couple
of 380 yen stores, I was kinda disappointed, all the shit in those
stores were used clothes that nobody would want in the US. They
had shit like free shirts that you would get in the US, like DARE
shirts and old boyscout t shirts. I did get one cool shirt
though, so that made up for all the whack shit they had. After
going through the main shopping area, I see a Nathan's Hotdog
stand. Now Mari has been telling me for hella long that I gotta
try a Nathan's Hotdog when I go to Japan, cause it's suppose to be the
shit. So I go buy a hotdog, and after I try it, I must admit
Mari, that it tasted pretty much like a 711 hotdog....big
letdown.
So after I finished the hotdog, me and Ryan chilled
at a bench for a whiel before finally meeting up with Kyoko and
Irish. From there we met up with Besto and looked for a place to
eat. Kyoko was all like "I"ve been to a Sizzlers here, it has all
you can eat seafood." Now shit, that sounds like good stuff, so
after we find this "sizzlers" we discover that it's now a sushi
restaurant. When we ask Kyoko when she went to the Sizzlers, she
said it was like years ago, like many years ago, nice one Kyoko, way to
get my hopes up then shoot them down. After looking for a place
to eat, which was pretty difficult cause it was Spring break in Japan
and EVERYONE came down to Tokyo to party that weekend, we go to this
place in SHibuya. Before I talk about dinner, let me talk about
Shibuya.
Just by the name "SHIBUYA" is enough to give you an
idea of what type of place this is. Shibuya is kinda like
Harajuku in the fact that it's a district for young people.
What's different about Shibuya is that it has an older crown thann
Harajuku, the people there are in their late teens to late
twenties. THis is where the shit is at, everybody around you
looks like they're on their way to a club or out to party, Shibuya is
the shit.....pretty damn superficial, but it's the shit. The
whole area is seems like a place for partying and letting lose.
Kinda like vegas, but without all the old folks.
So for dinner we go to this place where we all sit
at a table with a computer screen on it. ON the screen are all
the different foods and drinks you can order. To order it, all
you gotta do is push what you want on the screen and how much of it you
want. This isn't a place where you get individual meals, you get
appetizers to share with the whole table. We got hella food, so
much food that we ended up paying about 20 bucks a head. Believe
it or not, we didn't order much alcohol, I think only Ryan and Besto
ordered alcohol, I was wondering why they ordered it, why drink a
little now when you can drink alot later.....which we did.
We headed out to check out Shibuya after dinner
since we had some time to kill before going to a club. Besto took
me into this store where it had all these pictures of girl's faces,
with their numbers, and their hourly rates. Besto explained to
me, that although this was illegal, the place work like this: go
in there, look at the pictures of the girls, call the phone number of
the girl, and meet up with her in a location to do your shit with
her. It's illegal but cops turn their backs towards this
practice, I don't know if it was cause it's widely practiced in Japan,
or cause places like this one are owned by the Japanese mafia, the
Yakuza. What really tripped me out is that these girls, they
didn't look hella skanky like you might expect, alot of them were
pretty damn cute. While me and Besto were in here, the others
waited outside. When we got outside, I guess Kyoko caught Ryan
trying to peek inside the store. So she told him to just go in
there to take a look. Ryan, trying to act all "goody goody" was
like "nooooo, I don't want to go in there." Kyoko on the
otherhand said it was cool and started to drag him towards the entrance
but Ryan started to struggle and shit and refused to go in.
Doooood Ryan, it's ok to just look to see what's in there, since you
didn't go in the place when me and Besto went in, now you're gonna end
up going there by yourself cause you're too embarrassed to have people
see you go in a place like that. You put too much on your "clean"
reputation, but we all know Ryan is as dirty as they come, lets not
forget that he tried to cop a feel on me in Vegas when he thought I was
sleeping.........sick fuck. N
Next place we check out is a sex shop. This
place was fucking trippy, I"ve been to ones back home, but this place
had all types of crazy shit. If you look at the pictures taken
from Japan, you'll see one of me hella cheesin with all these different
colored objects in back of me......if you look closely, you'll notice
that they're dildos. Man this place had all kinda of shit that I
wouldn't expect to have existed. After we spent a good long time
here we got ready for the club. I'll put the preclub stuff and
the club experience on the next entry, my ass and eyes are starting to
hurt and I have class early tomorrow.
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| haven't updated this for a while, been pretty damn busy. I'm almost done with all the entries about the trip but here's
Friday, March 25th
After our previous night of drinking we all slept in
till about the good ol time of about 10:30am......excpet for Kyoko, her
lameass had work. Guess she really didn't want to hang with her
pal Shannon if she used work as an excuse to cut out on us.....pretty
fucked up huh? Anyway, the plan for that day was to go check out
some waterfalls that was up towards Mt. Fuji. Mr, Irish, and
Ryan, who will now also be referred to as "GB," all took a six dollar
bus ride for a half hour bus ride to the waterfalls. When we get
there, it's cold as fuck. Not just chilly cold like it was for
most of the trip but windy cold.....I fucking hate windy cold.
At the waterfalls, I have to admit, it was pretty
nice. The water fallsweren't hella huge or anything but they
scene was nice and relaxing for a change.
At the falls they had vendors selling food, I bought some grilled squid
and sea snails, both were good.....snails were a big chewy
though. After we finisished with the falls we went back towards
the bus stop, on the way we had wasabi ice cream. I thought that
shit would be pretty nasty, but it turned out to be alright.
After another six dollar bus ride back to the trainstation, we stopped
at a temple before going to the JUSCO to meet up Kyoko. At
Jusco we meet up with Kyoko and bought lunch there. I bought, as
you may have guessed, an ass load of fried seafood. I'm telling
you, if you go to Japan, you gotta go to Jusco, cheapass fried seafood,
can't get any better than that. Later, after we ate, we shopped
around Jusco for a bit, didn't get shit though cause we had to meet
Besto, his co worker, Ryan's co workers, and one of their friends for
dinner.
That night we took the train to another city where
we met up with the other people to eat. Now originally, we were
gonna eat at some kind of "Japanese fusion" place, but Ryan didn't get
reservations early enough. Now because we didn't get the
reservations, Ryan started tripping and shit about how he didn't get
the reservations on time and started getting all mad and himself.
Now Ryan, although it was interesting seeing you get all sad because
you didn't get the reservations, nobody else had a problem with
it.....hell, we could have gone to Jusco for dinner. Since we
didn't have reservations to eat dinner, we just found some random
Japanese place, which I must say worked out fine. But I gotta say
the waitresses there were fucking cute. This one chick, who was
like the most booty of all the waitresses looked like the crazy
Japanese chick from Kill Bill 1....you know, Lucy Lu's body guard with
the chain and ball. Damn, that waitresses was pretty cute even
though she was the most whack out of all of them. Food at the
place was alright, we had alot better throughout the trip. One
plate that they had there, I forgot what it was called, something like
the "forbidden dish" or soemthing, was just a bunch of chicken skin
that was roasted.....nasty shit man, nasty shit. Ryan's co
workers and their friends were cool. Two of them could speak
English pretty decently so we were able to have conversation.
Turns out two of them will be visiting California in August so I told
them to contact me when they would be here. They'll be staying at
Oxnard, for those of you that don't know where Oxnard is, it's jsut
some shitty little place in Southern California.....I told them if they
come up to Northern California, let me know, and for sure, I'll take
them somewhere nice....maybe get buffalo wings or osemthing. The
other chick that Besto bought was one of his Japanese coworkers, turns
out that he was trying to get with her. She was cute, small
little Japanese chick, but they all said that she had a take charge
attitude when they were ordering food. I bet she's one of those
chicks that has to do everything her way and won't let her bf make any
decisions, I didn't expect that from a Japanese chick. Most of
them seem so passive. AT one point at dinner, she said that she
didn't have a bf, and Besto said "I can help you with that," and do you
know what she did? SHe started laughing, poor Besto, sorry
man.....maybe she'll dig you more aggressive around
her.................in the bedroom....... I think she'd like that.
When dinner finally ended, we took the train back to
Kyoko's place. Our taxi driver on the way back was fucking weird
though. I was sitting in the front seat and putting on the seat
belt when he says in Japanese "don't put that on, it won't make a
difference." In my mind I'm like "fuck that, it won't make a
difference for you if we crash but it'll make a difference to me." then
he starts saying all this other shit, I couldn't understand what he was
saying but I knew he was talking weird shit, I kinda expected him to do
something crazy, like pull out a weapon, or put his hand on my leg,
something nutty ya know. I was glad when we finally got to
Kyoko's house cause that dude was creeping me out. At Kyoko's
house, we didn't do shit, just wathed a little TV and went to
sleep. This was probably one of the most boring......no, that
word would offend our good hosts in Japan, so I'll say "relaxing" day I
spent in Japan.
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| Thurs, March 24th
damn, I can't find a way to stay awake in my 2pm class. So far
I"m 3 for 3, I"ve fallen asleep each time I attend that class.....maybe
I should bring food to keep me awake.
Thursday was suppose to be the day where me and
Irish would be on our own since Ryan and Scruffy had to be at work for
the full day. Since we would be on our own I was planning to take
the bus and spend the day at Jusco. I'm thinking that since I
don't have to wake up hella early for no fucking bus or train, I'm
gonna sleep till 1:00, who cares if I"m wasting time in Japan sleeping,
I need to fucking rest. The plan was to get up, shit, shower,
then be at Jusco at around 3, where I would then eat a good breakfeast
of fried octopus and squid.....to which I then would spend the rest of
the time looking around at Jusco until it was time to meet with our two
hosts.
So the next morning I'm trying to sleep in till my
target time of 1 when I hear the phone ring. Since it's not my
place and I was nice and warm, I wasn't about to get up and answer the
phone, if anything, Irish could answer it. Irish picks up the
phone and its Kyoko, next thing I know I hear Irish telling me to go to
the table. I"m thinking "fuck that, I'm sleeping in, it's MY
day"........after she wouldn't let up, I got to the table to see a
"sealed envelope." After I saw the envelope, I knew something was
up, the way it was all sealed up like it was mission impossible told me
that I wasn't going to be sleeping in that morning. We open the
envelope and there's a message for us....it went something like :blah
blah blah, it's 9:45 and Ryan and Kyoko have a mission for you to
complete. What it should have said is "James and Shannon, we're
not gonna let you have one day to rest, we're intent on busting your
chops as much as we can because you're such good guests." After
the message telling us that we would have to go through a scavenger
hunt, it gave us a list of shit to do. The had shit like
Find a Jamaican
How many star bucks in Shizuoka are there?
Find the Mexican place
Find the Boom Boom Room
Buy Kyoko a bagel
Buy Ryan a desert
There must have been about 15 "missions" for us to
complete. So the first part of the mission was just getting to
Shizuoka city from Kyoko's place. The very FIRST thing on the
list was to get to the bus stop by 11:10 so we could make it to the
train station to make a certain train. Now here is when we almost
fucked up the first instruction........I'm ready by 10:45, I"m changed
and I'm just waiting for Irish......she says that all she has to do is
her hair. I'm waiting and waiting, next thing you know it's
10:08......if you know me you'd know that by this time I'm flipping out
and getting pretty pissy about not getting to the bus on time. We
power jog our way to the bus stop and of course, we miss the bus.
We wait about another 25 minutes for the next bus to come and the whole
time we're waiting, I'm thinking, "she just had to wait till the last
minute to dry her hair, fucking Irish." Irish assures me that
we're good and that we would just be late, so I"m thinking that she's
probably right and I shouldn't be so pissy. We barely make the
train we're suppose to catch and we're on our way to Shizuoka city.
As soon as we get out of the train station we start
our search for all our shit we gotta do. To prove that we did all
the stuff we have to take pictures with Kyoko's camera. Luckily
for the two of us, I employed my old BS skills and we took care of the
first couple of items off the list. As we're walking, I ask this
dorky German kid if he knew where some of the places that we had to go
were. Of course he doesn't and he starts getting into this long
conversation with Shannon. The whole time they're talking I"m
just looking around for clues that would help us finish the scavenger
hunt. Up ahead of me, I see a lady with a camera crew and a
microphone, I"m thinking "oh shit, am I gotta be on TV, I think she's
looking at me." Of course as we get closer I realize she's not
looking at me, she's looking and Shannon and the dorky 18 year German
kid. So as I stand there, Shannon and the dork are on camera
being asked questions about curry. I thought that shit was kinda
fucked up, out of the three of us, they interview the two
whites......fucked up shit. What makes it even worse is that
Shannon and the Dork don't even eat curry while curry is in my top ten
foods I love.
Towards the end of the day we go into a bagel shop
searching for this specific bagel that Kyoko loves to eat. As I'm
buying the bagel, I decide to ask the worker if she knows where the
Boom Boom Room is, since that was one of the few places that we
couldn't find that was on the list. She shakes her head and her
co workers says in english....good english, that she knows where it
is. So she points out to me where the place is on Ryan's hand
drawn map that he gave to. We start bullshitting about whatever
and I found out that she went to college in New York and that she's 29,
twenty fucking nine, she looks like she's my age.....age is very
deceiving in Japan.
Right after the bagel store I we see a lingere
store, is that how you spell it.....I'll just say underwear, that's
easier to spell. One of the missions was for me and Irish to take
a picture wearing woman's underwear on the outside of our
clothes. I wonder who chose that mission RYAN.....you knew it was
the only way for you to see me in womens underwear you sick fuck.
Anyway, me and IRish take some underwear, pack into a changing stall,
and take the pictures.
At 5 we met up with Ryan and KYoko, and since we
finished all the missions, they take us out to dinner. Now the
food at the place we ate at was alright, but what made a decent meal
into a great meal was NOMIHODI. Nomihodi is all you can
drink. So of course we have to get nomihodi and I have six of
these drinks called calpis sours......it's good shit. During
dinner I tell them about the bagel girl and how she's hella flirtatious
and how she added right before I left "I hope I see you again."
Turns out they know who this chick is, in fact, Besto has her number
and has been trying to get something going with her. What a
fucking tease, I thought I was special. So after those six
drinks, I have a good buzz and everyone else is hella telling me to go
back to the bagel place and ask that girl if she wants to go out with
us tomorrow. Normally I don't ahve the balls to do shit like that
but after a couple of drinks, I think I can "whoop any motherfucker's
ass in the club"......we march to the bagel place after dinner but the
place is closed.....awwww too bad.
On the way back we decide to stop at a Karaoke
place. Normally I don't sing but after drinking, of course I'm
fucking down for singing. What was nice about this place is that
it also had Nomihodi. We planned to only stay for one hour but
when you're having fun, time flies. After the first hour was up,
we decide to stay for the second hour, we would have stayed for a third
but we had to make the last train back home. Anyway, so after the
six drinks at the restaurant I"m feeling good, then at the karaoke
place, I have another three calpis sours and three shots of sake.....I
was having a damn good time. I go to the bathroom, piss, then
yack in the urinal....but this time I didn't flood it. After I
get back, I have two more calpis sours just in time to finish our
second hour.
Now before the trip, Irish was bragging to me about
how she could out drink me and all that shit just cause she's
Irish. I'm thinking to my self how that was bullshit and that'd
I'd bust her Irish ass out when we go drink. Throughout the whole
trip, Irish didn't drink much, she was always "tired" or some other
shit like that. But I must say, that night she drank my ass under
the table. She drank as much as I did, with the exception of the
sake, and while I was pretty faded, she's saying "I'm not even
buzzed." Me, being such a good sportsman, accept that she drank
me under the table and that I was no match for her Irish genes.
At the train station, we miss the train back to Kyoko's so we have to
wait an additional 20 minutes for the next train. So while we're
waiting for the next train, I show them that I can yack on command by
yacking near some plants......it's a given skill that I often show
off. Kyoko, who also had a bit too much to drink, one
drink.........is feeling pretty good from the alcohol and is trying to
some breakdancing. When I see this, I"m thinking "hell nah, you
weak"......so I drop a couple of moves of my own, and believe me when I
say this, I busted her ass out. Made her retire from breakdancing
right on the spot. This is about the end of the night, train
comes, pay the weirdass taxi driver to drive us home, then we all
crashed.
The reason I couldn't bring anything home for anyone
was cause Ryan wouldn't let me shop at the Jusco as was planned.
You are all welcomed to leave him a nasty message about it on his
xanga.....it's yutalk921.
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| Wed, March 23rd
Wednesday comes around and Ryan says he wants to go
to the onsen. The onsen is basically a public bath where you go
to relax.......naked. At first I was like "hell nah, I"m cool
Ryan".......but he kept on saying how I shouldn't be a wuss and just do
it. That's easy for you to say Ryan, you've been living in Japan
where bathing naked with other dudes is normal....... in the US is
condsidered, for lack of better words "hella gay." Eventually
after much heckling I agree to go.
The train ride there took about an hour but when we
got there, the onsen seemed like a resort. It was located off a
cliff overlooking the ocean. Either you could pay 6 dollars for
an hour or 12 dollars for the day....since we took that longass train
ride over there, we spent 12 bucks for the day. While Irish and
Scruff went to the women's area on the 5th floor, me and RYan went to
the dude's on the 4th floor.
Before you can get in the hot communal baths, you
must first wash yourself at a stall......oh yeah, this ain't a place
where you can go in with your swimming trunks, you gotta go butt
naked. Now before I start hearing all these gay jokes, this is
what me and Ryan did, he went to one stall on one side and I went to
another stall on the other side. After we finished cleaning
ourselves we both went into the baths.......of course from the stalls
to the bath I held a towel around my waste cause I knew Ryan was trying
to get a peek at me cause he's a perv. I could not believe how
hot the water was, after about 5 minutes it got too hot for us and we
went to the outdoor bath. I have to admit, this outdoor bath was
fucking nice. The water was hot and it had a view of the
ocean. We stayed there for about an hour and a half before
meeting with the girls downstairs. Turns out the girls were
already done and waiting for us at the elevator.
Downstairs we just sat there for a while resting
while eating the free samples of food in the loby. One thing I
love about Japan is that everywhere that sells food has free
samples. If you go to all the samples in a supermarket, you can
have a full lunch. So we did this for about a half hour, just
sitting, sampling, and relaxing. A cool thing about the onsen was
that it had a whole floor in the building just to relax. On this
floor there were matts covering the floor, massage chairs, and blankets
and pillows. I tried a go on the massage machine for a dollar and
that shit was more like a torture machines. One dollar not well
spent. We slept there for about 45 minutes before we decided to
go. The trip back was alright, I had to piss for like an hour
before I got a chance when we got back to Kyoko's city.
Now, this is the cool part, in Kyoko's city, there's
this huge target/walmart kinda place. It has everything, clothes,
toys, food, whatever. Since we didn't have dinner we went to this
shopping center, which was called Jusco, to pick up dinner. The
food area is like a supermarket format, you just pick what you want and
pay at the register. Fortunately, it's about 9pm, right before
it's about to close. Sooooooo, alot of the food that is made at
the Jusco is sold at clearance costs, otherwise they throw it
away. With this in mind I go to the section with all the good
stuff.....the fried section. There I bought fried squid, octopus,
fish, vegetables, and some other stuff. After I finished buying
my friend dinner and the next days fried breakfeast......I go and pay,
can you believe the whole thing only came out to 8 bucks.....what a
deal.
Anyway, after we all finished buying our dinner we
took a taxi back to Scruff's house. There we ate our dinner and
watched Swingers, well the first half of it anyway. I have to
admit, this movie kinda reminded me of the guys....pretty funny shit.
Yeah, I know I"m gonna hear about the gay jokes of
me and Ryan bathing together...but whatever, I was in Japan, gotta
experience Japan.........Jusco is the shit, if I lived by one, I"d go
everyday before closing.
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