After a week of PowerPoints and tours, orientation is finally over. The campus is good and the students seem to be very friendly. My first class is a history class this Friday. Really nothing much more to report on the academic front.
A friend of mine from Denison is studying at Waseda University, also in Tokyo. We met up yesterday and walked around a sort of marketplace in Asakusa, also in Tokyo. Her host mother is an English teacher and was taking some of her students there and asked if we would like to tag along. Afterwards we went to Shinjuku, one of the larger stations. We went up to the observation deck, for lack of a better term, and looked out at the city. It's pretty ridiculous just how big Tokyo is. The visibility was good, and I could not see the end of it in any direction. Upon looking at these pictures again, I'm surprised that I have managed to not get lost yet. I'm sure my day is coming soon, though.
I plan to start taking my camera out with me more. I'm sure if I had been doing this, I would have posted more frequently already. Sumimasen.
I guess that is all for now. I will just leave you with one last video which was taken in front of a ramen shop. I thought it was neat.
Self-animated ramen!
ReplyDeletedon't worry elliott... I have complete faith in your ability to get totally lost; its only a matter of time really. I'm suprised it hasn't happened already! so chin up, billy buddy... your day will come.
ReplyDeleteAnd those chopsticks are the most bodacious, mmost benadictine, most branded, most barbaric, most brandywine, most burlesque, most berated, most byplanar, most belated, most bisequential, most beret thing I have ever seen.
congradulations
Enjoying your blogs, Elliott. Now, if I can only get your dad to officially become one of the Elliott followers/devotees!
ReplyDeleteAwesome photos of the city and the magic ramen display...
elliott you have more followers than posts. i'm embarrassed for you.
ReplyDeleteEaster Greetings! We are enjoying the posts and pictures but we (literally)do not know what it means to be a follower! Griffin wants to know why you appear to be wearing gloves while eating in your profile photo.
ReplyDeletelove,
Martins