b’s blog

For about one week Ian and his buddies are going travelling around before they prepare to head back to Canada. I have sent him a list of things that I’d like him to bring back. Hopefully, I’ll get some of them!

well, 2 days ago was probably the worst day.. I was going to buy a playstation portable with one of the guys going to get his camera and his girlfriend. we overslept by several hours, got on a wrong train which turned out to be an express train to yokohama, a city half an hour […]

I read the first 2 harry potter books in under a week and am going to a major book store tomorrow to see if they have the third (out of the half dozen local book stores nearby, only one has an english book area, and its like 1 rack [they had 1, 2 and 4]). […]

went to the Ghibli studio museum today. Kinda small, not much, and geared toward children but what was there was pretty cool.

This place is much better than the previous residence. It’s dormatory style, so we share toilets and showers and kitchen/lounge with everyone else. Much larger, send pictures later.

We went to yokohama (bay city south of tokyo) to visit benny and gavin’s host family from last summer and we ended up staying the night (saturday). Good food and we went to some yokohama malls on sunday. It was a great time and I can see why they had so much fun last year. […]

Man, in alberta, we’re spoiled with all our smoking bylaws. I miss not havint to run out of a fast food restaurant because the smoke was burning my eyes! other than that, it seems the quality of everything is higher in japan. Food, service, roads (almost all of them are perfect) etc.

train, train, ooo’s, ahh’s, walking, malls, buffet, malls, malls, malls, malls, Toyota’s pallette town, cars, ooh’s ahh’s, malls, home. Did I mention all the malls in the area? really cool architechture of buildings and bridges. didn’t get to ride the sea busses cars are neat buffet was 1200Y and the food was great (way better […]

I’ve eatten at mcdonalds here 5 times already cuz the price is right 500JPY for a burger (theres like 10 to choose from) then your choice of 5 nuggets, salad or fries, AND THEN your choice of drink or 100JPY each for any item of mcchicken, cheese burger, apple pie, fish mcdippers, juice, pop, and […]

daaaamn, I can spray them, but I freak out when the come at me the 3 other guys are even worse, but one of the girls is fearless haha oh yes, I remember what I was gonna say last time: the japanese are too good for mirrors: they require expensive crystal clear LCD screens with […]