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Guess Who's Back...Back Again...
16 years ago
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Alright guys. Well I'm back home now, have been since wednesday, and holy shit did it take me forever, in perhaps the most ass-backwards way possible. Right, so here's the rundown on the last places I went to and did stuff and whatnot. Really going back here, but I didn't have a lot of time. I haven't even finished my LiveJournal postings from each city that I'd been keeping. Like always, ask questions if you wish, I will fill in the blanks. I'll split it up, cause I typed all up and it was super long. Here's Liverpool to Tokyo.
Liverpool:
-Spent the first 2 days re-discovering the city, mailed off some postcards
-Met up with Paul, got my care package, which was surprisingly heavy
-Owen finally got into town and we hung out the other 2 days I was there, tons of fun
-Saw District 9, which was amazing
-Learned my dad was gonna meet me in Tokyo
London (Like third time now):
-Chilled out
-Went to the town of Bath, saw the Roman Baths
-Went to Stonehenge, which was pretty awesome
-Flew out to Japan, took 9 hours, watched like 4 movies on the plane
Tokyo:
-Had to figure out the train system to get to my hostel from Narita airport, took like 2.5 hours to get there
-Got to the hostel and just crashed until that night, when I up to make a sandwhich in the kitchen, I got talking to a bunch of people, which the group got bigger and bigger and included an Irish couple, a group of three Finnish guys who were really funny, these four Aussie girls and thisone really awkward guy from New York.
-Neighbours called the cops on us cause we were too loud in the hostel kitchen. Cop comes up and was gonna fine us all 10,000Yen, which is like just over $100, but the one Aussie girl spoke enough Japanese to convince him not to.
-Went out to Karaoke so we could be as loud as we wanted.
-I rocked Champagne Supernova like you would not believe.
-This was all the first day
-Dad flies in, I had told him what to do with the trains, so he had no problem
-We checked out Odaiba, which is like the weird, futuristic building part of Tokyo
-Went to the Fuji TV Headquarters building. My dad works in the film industry, so we thought it'd be cool to check out the Japanese film industry, which just turned out to be weird and confusing to us North Americans hahaha
-Went to the temple and marketplace by our hostel
-Went to the Tokyo Tower, which had in it, a very weird and mostly inacurate wax museum (James Dean looked like he was 55 years old, Brad Pitt looked like Dr. Zaius).
-Accidentally went to a 3D anime movie at the tower and me and my dad were like wtf
-Went to the Sumo Wrestling tournament, which was really cool. A couple of times the one guy through the other one into the judges that were sitting ringside, and they had to have mad dodging skills to avoid being hit by this huge fat guy flying towards them
-Ate some Japanese food, duh
-Tried without any success to find the "Freshness Burger" restaurant we had seen the second night he was there. I would later go on to find several after he left
-Went to Don Quiote's this weird XS Cargo on Japanese steriods department/novelty store and got an awesome engrish tshirt
-Went to the markets in Ueno and got my sister and her friend some funny engrish shirts
-Daytrip to Kyoto. Took the bullet train, was going like 300 km/h. First time my dad had been on a train besides the Royal Hudson.
-Dad flew home
-I hung out with these girls from Edmonton for pretty much the rest of my time there. They left the same day I did, but to go back to Canada, not the UK like I was.
-Drinking beer and talking about Canada and movies n stuff with the Edmonton girls
-Met up with my friend who lives in Chiba. Her and her friend showed me around Tokyo and some places I hadn't been to yet.
-Went to the SquareEnix store with the Edmonton girls
-The kitchen had little roaches in it, and the kitchen only had ONE FORK in the entire place, and a hot plate that took 35 minutes to boil the water.
-Stayed at my friends house in Chiba, which was really cool. Had like an authentic Japanese family dinner, some shabu-shabu and big ol' thing of sushi. It was pretty fun, but also very different staying with them. Her and her parents were obsessed with me and it was pretty funny. I'll tell ya more about that if ya want, just ask, cause it was pretty funny.
-Flew out, back to the UK. Watched a ton more movies on the plane.
Part 2 will be London (for like the fourth time) all the way to my flights home and the ordeal that was.
Liverpool:
-Spent the first 2 days re-discovering the city, mailed off some postcards
-Met up with Paul, got my care package, which was surprisingly heavy
-Owen finally got into town and we hung out the other 2 days I was there, tons of fun
-Saw District 9, which was amazing
-Learned my dad was gonna meet me in Tokyo
London (Like third time now):
-Chilled out
-Went to the town of Bath, saw the Roman Baths
-Went to Stonehenge, which was pretty awesome
-Flew out to Japan, took 9 hours, watched like 4 movies on the plane
Tokyo:
-Had to figure out the train system to get to my hostel from Narita airport, took like 2.5 hours to get there
-Got to the hostel and just crashed until that night, when I up to make a sandwhich in the kitchen, I got talking to a bunch of people, which the group got bigger and bigger and included an Irish couple, a group of three Finnish guys who were really funny, these four Aussie girls and thisone really awkward guy from New York.
-Neighbours called the cops on us cause we were too loud in the hostel kitchen. Cop comes up and was gonna fine us all 10,000Yen, which is like just over $100, but the one Aussie girl spoke enough Japanese to convince him not to.
-Went out to Karaoke so we could be as loud as we wanted.
-I rocked Champagne Supernova like you would not believe.
-This was all the first day
-Dad flies in, I had told him what to do with the trains, so he had no problem
-We checked out Odaiba, which is like the weird, futuristic building part of Tokyo
-Went to the Fuji TV Headquarters building. My dad works in the film industry, so we thought it'd be cool to check out the Japanese film industry, which just turned out to be weird and confusing to us North Americans hahaha
-Went to the temple and marketplace by our hostel
-Went to the Tokyo Tower, which had in it, a very weird and mostly inacurate wax museum (James Dean looked like he was 55 years old, Brad Pitt looked like Dr. Zaius).
-Accidentally went to a 3D anime movie at the tower and me and my dad were like wtf
-Went to the Sumo Wrestling tournament, which was really cool. A couple of times the one guy through the other one into the judges that were sitting ringside, and they had to have mad dodging skills to avoid being hit by this huge fat guy flying towards them
-Ate some Japanese food, duh
-Tried without any success to find the "Freshness Burger" restaurant we had seen the second night he was there. I would later go on to find several after he left
-Went to Don Quiote's this weird XS Cargo on Japanese steriods department/novelty store and got an awesome engrish tshirt
-Went to the markets in Ueno and got my sister and her friend some funny engrish shirts
-Daytrip to Kyoto. Took the bullet train, was going like 300 km/h. First time my dad had been on a train besides the Royal Hudson.
-Dad flew home
-I hung out with these girls from Edmonton for pretty much the rest of my time there. They left the same day I did, but to go back to Canada, not the UK like I was.
-Drinking beer and talking about Canada and movies n stuff with the Edmonton girls
-Met up with my friend who lives in Chiba. Her and her friend showed me around Tokyo and some places I hadn't been to yet.
-Went to the SquareEnix store with the Edmonton girls
-The kitchen had little roaches in it, and the kitchen only had ONE FORK in the entire place, and a hot plate that took 35 minutes to boil the water.
-Stayed at my friends house in Chiba, which was really cool. Had like an authentic Japanese family dinner, some shabu-shabu and big ol' thing of sushi. It was pretty fun, but also very different staying with them. Her and her parents were obsessed with me and it was pretty funny. I'll tell ya more about that if ya want, just ask, cause it was pretty funny.
-Flew out, back to the UK. Watched a ton more movies on the plane.
Part 2 will be London (for like the fourth time) all the way to my flights home and the ordeal that was.
