Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Here's a video of the Bon Festival we went to over the weekend. I absolutely loved the dancing and stayed after other people had left.
The biggest event of the night was yet to come. Since the festival was far away in Yokohama we took a long time getting back on the train. We arrived Iidabashi station at 12:13AM and made a mad dash, 480m, to catch our train at 12:15. Although I ended up falling down the stairs, hurting my knee, and ripping holes in both of the knees of my pants, we made it...and were promptly kicked out 8 stops into our 16 stop journey since the train's last stop was in Toyocho. That began an adventure of epic proportions: a four hour, >9 mile walk, crossing three rivers, that finally saw us all falling into bed at 4:30 in the morning. My right leg was shot and I had blisters like you wouldn't believe, but it was an experience unlike any other. There is no better way to learn a city than to walk it, and let's just say we got to know a good bit of Tokyo and Ichikawa that night. Good times and lots of good stories. Cooper got a lot of it on film with my HD video camera...I'm sure he'll have something worth sharing in the future.
Well, just a short update tonight. I hope you all are well!
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3 comments:
i'm glad you seem to be having fun so far :) except for the falling and hurting your knee part....and i guess maybe the part about the last stop as well, but walking semi-lost in tokyo is an experience in itself:P
Thanks, Sade. I wish we could have met up in Japan, but it just wasn't meant to be. It's been an amazing time so far. I've seen a ton of grand things and learned so much already...and I still have 5 weeks to go! You're right about the walking too; it was tough but I'm kinda glad we did it. I know I'll remember it for years to come. How are you?
i'm doing well, but yes, it would have been very awesome to have hung out in japan for just even a day :)
i missing japan in a few ways, but i'm glad to be back home!
since you have five weeks still to go, does that mean that you'll be back in time for your school? or is this part of your school stuff?
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