命、どこへ行っちゃって？

今日は楽しかった。まず、池袋駅でスティーブに会った。スティーブは何とかIcocaカードの問題があって、僕が手伝ってあげた。駅の中で二人ともヨヨを使って遊んだ。ステぃーブの影響でケースに帰るとジャグリングクラブに入るかもしれない。囲碁より楽しそう。

でわ、西日暮里という駅へ行って、ねず駅へ次行くはずだったが、Icocaは関西から持ってきたから地下鉄で使わない。そして、山手線に戻って、上野駅で降りた。歩いたあいだにヨヨを使った。道で歩いている人は変な顔が出って来た。ま、外国人だな～

上野公園からねず駅まで歩いた。驚くほど短期間で到着した。ねずにあるスーパーでダンゴともちで作ったお菓子を買って食べた。ベンチさんがないから、食べながら歩いた。今日の予定は東大際っていう祭り。東京大学はどこか知らないけど、歩道にある地図を見て、すぐ分かった。最初に工学部キャンに行ってみた。そこで何もない。学生もいないし、ビルが閉まっているし、自転車もないし、どう見ても誤っていた。では、次のキャンへ行ってみた。こんかいは正解！東大正門を見つかって、　祭りも見た。マークというステぃーブに会った東大学生を電話した。５分後、来た。マークは８年間日本に住んでいた。最初は僕と同じ留学生だった。今PHDの学生、沖縄の古い言葉を研究しているって。

This is taking way too long. So this guy Mark introduced us to Tokyo University. It is a very nice campus with nice buildings and trees everywhere. I think it is much better than Waseda. We watched a couple of the events which included a dance that we were dragged into, a juggling demonstration in which our yo-yo skills were greatly shown up, and ended up outside a host bar. There was a girl standing outside that tried to get us to go in. We started talking to here and it turns out that she goes to Waseda! On top of that she is in SILS! It is amazing that I havn't met her before... But of course I guess SILS is bigger than I thought it was. There are a ton of Japanese students in it. We ended up talking with her for about an hour. After that we parted ways. Mark went home while Steve and I headed to Baba.

Steve and I stopped at Waseda first in order to check out the book off there. Steve had a list of things he wanted to pick up for friends at home and himself. I ended up getting almost the entire series of the original Tenchi Muyo manga. It was the first time I had seen it and it was almost in its entirety so I couldn't pass it up. Next we were planning on going "conbini hopping" コンビ二ホッピングっていうのは最初のカンビニで好きなお酒を買って、歩きながら飲む。終わったら、次のコンビニでもう一度買って。。。。など。こいう風に安くてよぱらくなる The problem was that Steve picked up a small bottle of Whiskey. It is great if you want to get really drunk, but the first store is pretty much your last in the way of conbini hopping. I got a Chu-hi. We walked back towards Baba (it was raining BTW so it sucked) and stopped at いっぷど for dinner. Steve had yet to finish his drink so he shoved it in his pocket. The ramen was amazing as always. I think that you only get free rice and Gyoza at lunch which is a real shame. It would be sweet if you could do that all the time. We ended up back in Baba and went to the book off there as well. I picked up 1-10 of Tenjho Tenge which was also the first time I have seen it. It is so weird how you start seeing things after spotting it for the first time. The final book store was a ポーンオ bookstore. Steve wanted to pick up some interesting books for his friends back at home. We laughed while Steve looked through a couple looking for the most outrageous one. Finally, we spent the next hour at the arcade in big box. The plan was to beat time crisis 4, but the 2nd player gun was broken. We instead played DDR again, and various other 2 player games. I said bye to him on the train station and returned home.

It was nice seeing Steve again. It makes me realize how long it has been since I have seen anyone of relation aside from Vaso and the others here. I'm really starting to miss home.