So what have you been up to?

So what have you been up to? Me, well, yesterday was very relaxed, which was really nice. We got up and Mike came home with some passion fruit and ice cream and told me to eat because he’d bought it for me. Then Janine took me shopping for a bit, I now (kinda) know where the grocery store is, and mostly where things in the grocery store are. It was really nice.

Afterwards we went to brunch at the Tokyu Resort restaurant. It was really expensive, but a great buffet. I stuffed myself on waaay too many sweet things. After, Janine dropped me off at the beach to meet up with a bunch of other people. I went swimming and swimming and swimming. I chatted with a teacher who asked to be called “Bum” as in your bottom, and two nice girls whose names I can’t remember (I guess Bum is just so much more memorable) but it was nice. I actually got across the term “rusty” in Japanese because they’d never heard that term used that way before. I am iron, time is the water, and my Japanese has become rusty. It was really awesome.

After the beach Sam got dropped off with me to talk to her family on Skype, then we walked the 5 minute walk to her place (really nice apartment, very feminine), had a few beers and dinner and I helped her figure out what was wrong with her internet. (The modem wasn’t plugged in, but if it were me, I probably wouldn’t be thinking so logically either. It did take me 2 days to find the internet here . . .) She’s really nice and easy to get along with (or at least I found it to be so). Since we both can’t cook, we’ve talked about having dinner dates where we try to learn together.

After, I walked home in the dark, but there was nobody really around, I guess everyone goes home early here, and like I said it was only 5 minutes. I kept my key out, ready to turn it into a weapon if necessary, but it wasn’t. The biggest occurrence was that Junior High kid on his bike, he bowed to me as he passed. Even with it being so close, I’m sure there’s a short cut, I just don’t know where it is. Something to be explored in day time, I think.

Now, I have gotten up early because it is my first experience with walking to work. Hooray! I’m leaving myself 30 min, maybe it won’t be so bad. I did walk past it a few days ago while I was exploring.