Saturday was amazing. I slept in until almost noon, piddled around until 3, then went to Waseda-sai. Personally I didn't think it was the greatest thing ever. It felt like a county fair or a town jubilee. I am not a fan of either of those. I walked around, caught a couple of shows (they were mostly dancing with music), and grabbed some stuff to eat. I met up with Vaso and Nick during that time as well.
After Waseda-sai was over for the day (about 6pm) I headed to Shoko's apartment for a housewarming party. Now her apartment is pretty small. I have no idea how we managed to fit 12 people in there and still have room to eat and drink. Adam and Josh made some really good food consisting of curry rice and quesadillas. It was really cool to talk with some people from the program. I have not seen most of them since the Nagano trip. We ended up playing a couple of drinking games and then going to sleep. Some people went home, but most stayed overnight. Being selfish (or smart if you will) I staked out a piece of the bed for my sleeping purposes. Josh slept in the kitchen, Kanjina and Vance shared a futon, Nikki and Adam shared the fold out couch, Austin had his own futon, and Shoko also got the bed. The entire place was filled with people sleeping everywhere. It was really bad because if one person got up, they ended up stepping on everyone else to get to the bathroom. In the morning everyone woke up really early as Shoko had to go to work. Adam made some quick breakfast for everyone. The apartment was a mess, so before leaving, everyone helped out by cleaning up.
I attempted to go to Waseda-sai again Sunday but decided that I was too tired to
attend. I ended up going home and sleeping / studying the rest of the day.
Today my class went to the disaster relief center where we learned all about earthquakes, fires, and the like. It was really cool as we got to do the whole simulated Earthquake thing. There was this room with some stuff in it, and the guide cranked it up to a magnitude 7 earthquake. The room was shaking so much that it was near impossible to stand. Everyone cowered under the table until it stopped. I got some rugburn on my knees because we were forced to kneel. We also did 2 fire simulations. In one we got to use a fire extinguisher to put out a virtual fire. In the other, we had to navigate through smoke filled corridors. If you stood up too high, a sensor would go off and that person would be penalized. It was really fun.
Finally, the biggest excitement of the day was going to Nakano. Brendan told me that there are a bunch of used game shops there (I need to get him to explain where some more are btw). I ended up buying a Super Famicom with Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger, and Bahamut Lagoon. うれしくなった！
Monday, November 5, 2007
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Sweet! Some good choices there, now all you need is Puyo Puyo 2 for it. ;) Looks like you found the Mandarake game store just fine. Besides the small shop that you probably passed on the left side of the shopping street leading to the Broadway building, you can get to a rental store that had a bunch of used games as well as a Book Off if you go all the way through the Broadway building and then turn right at the street (both are on the same side of the street as the Broadway building). Probably worth your time to fully explore the different floors of the Broadway building as well. Welcome to the wonderful world of shopping for reasonably priced and very excellent スーパーファミコン games. :) I found some of my best deals at that Mandarake game store in Nakano. Worth visiting at least once every 2-4 weeks. There are also a bunch of stores in Akiba, but I don't have the exact locations etched into my brain like I do for Nakano. ;) The hard part about Akiba is that many of the big companies have 5-7 stores in the area that specialize in different things and you have to find the right ones that have the used games. I remember picking up some games at the Bookoffs in Harujuku and Ogikubo (荻窪駅北口店) as well.
That is fucking amazing.
Wow.
Good find Jon!!
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