Organic Farming??
I go meet my hippies tomorrow. Wow, I'm excited.
I posted some more pictures. Check the flickr account.
Saturday -
I wandered around Tokyo a bit. I wanted to get off at the official "Tokyo" stop on the train line so that's what I did. It felt good. I walked around touristy garden places, then I followed some bright lights and ended up in the electronics district and went into a store called Bic Camera. It was really loud with lots of people with microphones, really crowded and really really really headache-inducing-ly bright. And then once I left the store I followed even bigger, brighter lights to Ginza which is the crazy lights and shopping area, like Times Square maybe? It was pretty cool to walk around in. Really bright lights. Tokyo seems to be good at that.
Saturday night -
Out on the town!! We went to a club with a really fun DJ. It was in Shibuya and the DJ was playing this stuff that I said sounded like Techno Lounge and Lindsay told me that's the music that Shibuya's famous for. Well I was impressed. It was really fun. I danced for the first time in a while. The trains stop running from midnight to 5am so if you decide to go out, you decide to go out all night. We had no problem with that. When we were done with the club we went for a walk, stopped at this place called Freshness Burger and I got a cookie. It was 90 cents but really really good. Their fries were really good too and I don't even like fries that much. Then the 5am train back to Yokohama. I got bored and decided to take a lot of pictures on the train.
We got back at 6am, walked up the hill and went to sleep.
Sunday -
Got out of the house around 2pm. One thing that's kind of funny about Japan is how careful they are about, um, everything. There are DANGER!!! CAUTION!!!! signs/announcements/hand gestures everywhere. Nothing doesn't have a warning. And these same rules apply to the rain. DANGER!! RAIN COMING!!! USE UMBRELLA!!! DO NOT GET WET!!! People are nuts here about their umbrellas. As soon as the first tiny drizzle started the entire city went up in umbrellas. Lindsay, her cousin Sam who had just arrived in Yokohama and I were the only people in sight without them. In fact, they're so into their umbrella usage that places (hotels, restaurants, etc.) will often lend umbrellas if it's raining, or lightly drizzling. Right. So when we got to the hostel that Lindsay's cousin was staying at the lady who ran the place freaked out and tried to get us to borrow some. It was barely drizzling so I kind of laughed (to myself) and said, "Oh, that's alright, thanks though," and we were off to Chinatown to get some dinner. Ha ha, joke's on me. It started pouring.
So completely soaked, we sat down at some Chinese restaurant called Tung Fat and tried to order food.
I got chicken fried noodles and a spring roll. I don't mean to sound mean or inappreciative but I just have a hard time getting excited about eating foods that just don't really taste that good to me. I mean, I did it, I ordered it and I ate a good portion of it, but I probably wouldn't choose to do it again if, let's say Magic Wok was an alternative. I also tried a roasted chestnut. It smelled really good, but it didn't taste really good. We looked for some ice cream but then decided we were too cold and wet and then found out there was a Starbucks! Sometimes it's really nice to see a Starbucks sign. I got a mocha, a chocolate chunk scone, a seat near a window and then fell asleep soaking wet. It was nice. Then we came back to Lindsay's place and I started writing this blog.
TOMORROW!!!!
I go to Chiba to see my hippies. I'm really excited. Really nervous too. I know nothing about farming. I'm really excited to get my Japan Rail pass tomorrow. I've been spending at least 1,000 yen ($10) a day on trains and from tomorrow on I won't need to pay a penny! I mean, I've already paid for it, so at least I won't have to go through the physical act of putting a 1,000 yen bill in the machine.
Oh, one last thing... I wanted to put a disclaimer on the stuff I wrote "about Japan." It should have been "about the small part of Tokyo/Yokohama that I've witnessed so far." I also wanted to add that last night a drunk girl tried really hard to speak English to us and today I saw someone flat out littering. I'm sure Chiba (where the hippies are), Niigata (where Errol is) and the rest of the places around Japan will all be different and not so Tokyo.
To the hippies!
I posted some more pictures. Check the flickr account.
Saturday -
I wandered around Tokyo a bit. I wanted to get off at the official "Tokyo" stop on the train line so that's what I did. It felt good. I walked around touristy garden places, then I followed some bright lights and ended up in the electronics district and went into a store called Bic Camera. It was really loud with lots of people with microphones, really crowded and really really really headache-inducing-ly bright. And then once I left the store I followed even bigger, brighter lights to Ginza which is the crazy lights and shopping area, like Times Square maybe? It was pretty cool to walk around in. Really bright lights. Tokyo seems to be good at that.
Saturday night -
Out on the town!! We went to a club with a really fun DJ. It was in Shibuya and the DJ was playing this stuff that I said sounded like Techno Lounge and Lindsay told me that's the music that Shibuya's famous for. Well I was impressed. It was really fun. I danced for the first time in a while. The trains stop running from midnight to 5am so if you decide to go out, you decide to go out all night. We had no problem with that. When we were done with the club we went for a walk, stopped at this place called Freshness Burger and I got a cookie. It was 90 cents but really really good. Their fries were really good too and I don't even like fries that much. Then the 5am train back to Yokohama. I got bored and decided to take a lot of pictures on the train.
We got back at 6am, walked up the hill and went to sleep.
Sunday -
Got out of the house around 2pm. One thing that's kind of funny about Japan is how careful they are about, um, everything. There are DANGER!!! CAUTION!!!! signs/announcements/hand gestures everywhere. Nothing doesn't have a warning. And these same rules apply to the rain. DANGER!! RAIN COMING!!! USE UMBRELLA!!! DO NOT GET WET!!! People are nuts here about their umbrellas. As soon as the first tiny drizzle started the entire city went up in umbrellas. Lindsay, her cousin Sam who had just arrived in Yokohama and I were the only people in sight without them. In fact, they're so into their umbrella usage that places (hotels, restaurants, etc.) will often lend umbrellas if it's raining, or lightly drizzling. Right. So when we got to the hostel that Lindsay's cousin was staying at the lady who ran the place freaked out and tried to get us to borrow some. It was barely drizzling so I kind of laughed (to myself) and said, "Oh, that's alright, thanks though," and we were off to Chinatown to get some dinner. Ha ha, joke's on me. It started pouring.
So completely soaked, we sat down at some Chinese restaurant called Tung Fat and tried to order food.
I got chicken fried noodles and a spring roll. I don't mean to sound mean or inappreciative but I just have a hard time getting excited about eating foods that just don't really taste that good to me. I mean, I did it, I ordered it and I ate a good portion of it, but I probably wouldn't choose to do it again if, let's say Magic Wok was an alternative. I also tried a roasted chestnut. It smelled really good, but it didn't taste really good. We looked for some ice cream but then decided we were too cold and wet and then found out there was a Starbucks! Sometimes it's really nice to see a Starbucks sign. I got a mocha, a chocolate chunk scone, a seat near a window and then fell asleep soaking wet. It was nice. Then we came back to Lindsay's place and I started writing this blog. TOMORROW!!!!
I go to Chiba to see my hippies. I'm really excited. Really nervous too. I know nothing about farming. I'm really excited to get my Japan Rail pass tomorrow. I've been spending at least 1,000 yen ($10) a day on trains and from tomorrow on I won't need to pay a penny! I mean, I've already paid for it, so at least I won't have to go through the physical act of putting a 1,000 yen bill in the machine.
Oh, one last thing... I wanted to put a disclaimer on the stuff I wrote "about Japan." It should have been "about the small part of Tokyo/Yokohama that I've witnessed so far." I also wanted to add that last night a drunk girl tried really hard to speak English to us and today I saw someone flat out littering. I'm sure Chiba (where the hippies are), Niigata (where Errol is) and the rest of the places around Japan will all be different and not so Tokyo.
To the hippies!
posted by beth at 10:58 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Beth,
I'm so glad that you had a chance to post again. I love reading even the smallest details of what you've been doing.Pictures are great.
As a 60's-hippie-wanna-be, I can't wait to meet your hippies either. You'll be a great farmer- you're a quick study.
I look at your blog a few times a day. Love it!
Love,
Barbara
Beth!
Hope your organic farm is thriving and teeming with fun. please send me carrots and pomegranete if you happen to grow that stuff! You should also check out a Japanese band called Lullatone, who sound exactly like what their name implies.
Cheers,
Dannyyy
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