This was expensive but it was very flavorful and yummy. I ate this when Leslie’s friend Alycia was visiting. She wanted Ramen for her last meal before leaving Japan and we picked this place in Yokohama that a line outside of the restaurant =P and yep, can totally see why there was a line.

Regardless, it was  yummy and it was for Jamie’s birthday, so it was allgood. It was also kind of nice to have american food since I’ve been good and not have had it in so long ( not that I was really torn about it anyway). We went to the one in Sakuragicho in Yokohama Japan.

Lately I’ve been doing a thing where I make a card for a person’s birthday, and get everyone to sign it. For Jamie’s I kind of went the extra mile because she was expecting it and I wanted to blow her away the best I could with the time I had =P. I made it a 2 pager. The first page is a Pop up with a few signatures, and the next page was everyone else’s signatures all happy in a bunch.

The food was yummy, lots of fun laughs and good times.

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GEEKED OUT <3

Honestly it’s also easier to load pictures on facebook than it is here XD;  facebook image loading is so much faster and you don’t have to resize the photos before putting it up. But I will try my best to put more galleries on this thing since there are people who do not have facebook, and should not feel obligated to get one =p.

I have compied a “to do list before leaving Japan” thing  that I haven’t done yet that I want to accomplish or would like to keep in mind to accomplish.

-Eat Fugu?
- go to Joypolis (Sega amusement park), could happen this weekend!
- Eat more sushi and ramen, I feel since I’ve been here I haven’t been eating those two dishes as much as wanted.
- Homestay ( already filled the app. for that, so that should be underway)
- Kabuki Theater( planned to see in July, all set and ready)
- Comiket 76, 75 was awesome, would love to go 76.
- go to Nikko, heard it’s gorgeous.
- try Pachinko, reserved for August so in case I was to get addicted I would have no choice but to stop haha
- go to Disney Sea, only been to Disney Land, better try Disney Sea since Japan is the only place that has it.
- Ride the Shinkansen at least once
- Go to either Okinawa or Hokkaido before leaving, one of those two for sure.

This was around the last week if not less of Sakura blossoms still being on trees but dissapearing. The Sakura Blossoms were only up for 2-3 weeks in Japan. very short time =( They honestly are really pretty, it’s a shame they’re not up that long. I was really happy to get a chance to see them and go to all the festivals and do Hanami.

I thought this was really cool. These are alot of Sakura petals that fell into the river and piled up into a clump. Very pretty.

MIX SPEAKERS INC. I watched with Yilan in Saitama, Tokyo. Yilan sent me some of their stuff a little before she came here so I could get an idea of their stuff. They’re a very fun band. Very catchy stuff . At the concert it was so insane with the audience since everyone did para-para like hand motions with the band, headbangs, running across the room, all IN SYNC. It was so amazing and fun. XD

The Script I watched with Jamie and Junki in Shibuya, Tokyo. They’re a band from Dublin Ireland and they were amazing. Jamie sent me some of their stuff a while prior to going and they were great, but after hearing them live/in person I am moreso in love with their stuff now. Very very nice <3

LM.C (Lovely Moco-Chang) I watched in Hibiya, Tokyo with Jamie. It was very fun and very hot pink and black striped. Maya and Aiji were adorable<3 They played songs from both of their albums (Super Glitter Loud Box and Gimmical Impact!) There were giant LM.C balls thrown into the audience so everyone can throw them around like beach balls. Maya and one of the Denki-Man went around the middle of the auduience with a walking stand while Maya was singing. Very entertaining concert <3

I snuck a picture with my cellphone from afar of the stage before performence started :X

Recent favorite UFO Catcher winnnings. Two Raichus and a Pikachu. They’re sooo soft. I love them.  It’s fun to hug all three at once.

These were a fun win. Leslie and Jamie watched me go for the two Raichus. I wanted to get a Raichu for keeps but then I ended up wanting to get the second one cause it was the only one left in the machine. Raichus are very popular so I wanted to go for it.

It was a very fun night. Leslie, Jamie, and I just had dinner at Pepper Lunch, shopped, had desserts, did purikura,  very generic normal things and yet it was honestly a really fun time. I haven’t had such a great time in a while. <3

This was when Yilan and I were in Osaka for lunch. 600-700 yen a piece. The taste just sticked with you after you eat it, and it’s very delicious.  Melty in your mouth goodness.

This adorable baby deer here next to me is what Yilan dubbed as the cutest one of all the ones we’ve seen. She named it “Shikako” and it got the taste of senbei now in its tastebuds. Shikako is going to grow up into a scary deer snatching senbei away from people hands and nibbling on our clothes.

I swear when I went again to Nara the Deer were more vicious. When I went with Leslie back in January the worst thing they did was nibble my hand and get it soggy. This time around they actually bit my leg and side wanting senbei. It hurt D:. They are scary. Still cute. Just scarier. Maybe it’s a sign to not go during March.

My first batch here to go into the kilm for their first firing yesterday! Two cows, a lion, an elephant, a display with an Onigiri, Cat, and Tea cup that can hold a pencil. I had some other works completed but they’re too wet atm to be fired. These are gifts for various people around the dorm and one of them is for one of my Senseis. I may keep a cow for myself. Dont’ blow up!