I need to start getting up earlier in general.\u00a0 It’s really a part of my sleeping with other people.\u00a0 I tend not to get up when other people are sleeping, because I think I’ll bother them.\u00a0 But I’m trying to get over that.\u00a0 They certainly don’t afford me the same courtesy.\u00a0 In fact I’m pretty sure for the most part, everyone except the Japanese are inherently rude.<\/p>\n
So today all I did was went to Comiket for a few hours.\u00a0 Essentially this is a gathering of a half million japanese comic fans.\u00a0 There’s not any commercial stuff here, just fan made stuff which is pretty awesome.\u00a0 I don’t have a particular interest in doujinshi (???) although, I’m sure there are some pretty good circles, maybe once my language ability improves I’ll be able to get into stuff like that more.\u00a0 I really just wanted to experience the massive amounts of people who convened out of love for the creative process.\u00a0 I have some pretty cool photographs of the crowds, and also a few good photos of some cosplayers (people who dress up).\u00a0 I might have wished for more time to photo the cosplayers, but I was being too slow about my process anyway, as I’m a shy introverted person as everyone knows.\u00a0 But it was a cool experience.\u00a0 Another cool thing to see is all those people get on a subway once they leave, it’s pretty ridiculous.\u00a0 The entire platform was packed with people, and of course so was the train once people got on, maybe worse than normal rush hour train packing, but it was hard to tell.<\/p>\n
Speaking of trains, as I was passing through Ueno, I took the time to get reserved seats on the shinkansen to and back from Hiroshima.\u00a0 My only purpose there is to explore the peace park.\u00a0 Experience all the horrors of atomic bombs and stuff.\u00a0 It’s about 5 hours on the train, and I’m only there one day, so I’m\u00a0making an exerted effort to go there, also spurred on by the fact that I can go for free on my JR pass which will have saved me several hundred dollars on travel when all is said and done.<\/p>\n
In any case,\u00a0 it was sort of cool encounter getting the tickets.\u00a0 The exchange happened all in Japanese, and while I was far from fluent, I successfully got my point across\u00a0at all times.\u00a0 From the the start of the conversation, I walked up and said, “Tomorrow, as far as Hiroshima” (in Japanese) and never looked back.\u00a0 I still have trouble catching numbers, but he was also cool, and wrote them down for me as well, so their wasn’t much confusion.\u00a0 As sort of awesome as it was, I was far too choppy, and I make mistakes like using ‘ka’ instead of ‘yo’ as an ending particle.\u00a0 (ka denotes a question, while yo denotes assuredness)\u00a0 But it’s good to get out there and talk to people.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s really not enough though.<\/p>\n
This is the part of the post where I talk about food.\u00a0 For the majority of the time I was in Kyoto I ate out of convenience stores and supermarkets.\u00a0 Usually, this involves a lot of guess work, and I’ve learned things which I thought I’d share.\u00a0 Deep fat fried things are always good.\u00a0 Hotdogs in any form are also always good.\u00a0 Things filled with strawberry filling and\/or margarine exceptionally good.\u00a0 Honey and margarine also okay, although one brand I tried had too much margarine.\u00a0 The quality of Ham sandwiches varies greatly, although they are all at least edible.\u00a0 Meat candies are not of the same level of quality as here in the states. \u00a0 Also, while strawberries are great, there are no cherry products in Japan.\u00a0 I love a good cherry snow cone, and while strawberry is okay, I prefer more with my bread.\u00a0 Also, no grape, which would also be preferable.<\/p>\n
Things McDonalds are\u00a0lacking here: chicken Nuggets, and the quarter pounder (or in their case the eighth kilo[er]).\u00a0 (Funnily enough, instead of charging more for things like bacon and cheese, they charge more for tomatoes.)\u00a0 They also lack readily available condiments but that’s probably a money saving practice.\u00a0 One thing I notice about the Japanese in their stores is that they do not waste anything.\u00a0 I think they found an unopened barbecue packet or something on a table, and they picked that stuff up and put it back in the box behind the counter.\u00a0 And why not, it’s still good right?<\/p>\n
Right, I get up retardedly early tomorrow (I hope) so I’m going to start the going to bed process and look forward to breakfast tomorrow (really didn’t eat much today).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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