大変

It has just occurred to me that it is November. Wow October just flew by. I noticed it today when I was heading out of the house. There is a Lawson convenience store right outside my train station that had all sorts of Halloween stuff in it. When I walked by it today, there was a huge sign that was promoting Christmas! I cannot believe that it is only 2 months away.

This morning when I woke up, I finally got around to asking my host father to call the shipping company for our area. I had ordered a memory stick for my PSP last Sunday, and it had still not arrived. The tracking website said that I had the wrong address and I received a call on my cell phone on Tuesday informing me about the mistake. When I inquired to my host father about this, he assured me that the package was on its way. I had to fight with him to finally make him understand that it was sitting at a warehouse somewhere. I learned that my Japanese skills were still pretty bad when dealing with this sort of stuff. My vocabulary is just not up to snuff yet. Anyway, I finally got him to listen to the voicemail to make him understand. After a few times of listening, he called them up and sorted everything out. Apparently, when you use a shipping address in Japan, you also need the family name. I had everything right, but instead of putting 臼井　スレバー　ジョン, I just put スレバー　ジョン. It still boggles my mind that you need to put the family name. Each house has its own house number! Why in the world do I need a second confirmation that this is the right house?

In any case, I received my memory card a couple of hours afterward.

At 4pm I headed off to 日本大学 for a "The Brilliant Green" concert. I am really getting in to this whole concert thing. It is really cheap to go and all the bands I like will play in Tokyo sometime during my stay. In any case, I made it to the concert and had a blast. Nihon Daigaku is a couple of blocks away from my home. I walked over there and again felt like a complete outsider. I am sure I was the only foreigner there. This concert was completely different from UVERworld. It was much more mellow. The crowd reflected this as they were not as energetic. It was all very well though, I still had a blast.

After the concert I went to Takadanobaba to meet some people at the HUB. It turned out that there was a private party going on and everybody ditched to go to Harajuku. I hopped back on the train and backtracked to Harajuku. I finally met up with Kanjina, Nikki, Adam, and Austin at the Takeshita exit. We went to this bar / resturant and chilled for a couple of hours. Next we headed to Shibuya to go to a club. Adam is keeping in contact with this guy who lives in Harajuku. He was telling us about a new club that was only charging 1000 yen ($10) as a cover charge. Even if the DJ's are not good, its still really cheap. This was all fine and dandy until we found the club. It turns out that the club opens tomorrow night. Sad and dissapointed, everyone returned home.