For the most part, homework consists of Japanse work sheets which we do almost immediately after class, and a whole library of reading which doesnt seem to be on the list of to do things for anyone. Studying takes up time we need to experience the culture in, if you know what i mean, and so, at the weekends, its all about learning. Conveniently a lot of classes are cancelled this week and next, so maybe i can catch up with writing home to everyone. It is coming dont worry!

This weekend after spending most of saturday getting unnecessarily worked up, off we went to Akihabara: Electric Town (the signs for the underground exits do indeed say electric town) to purchase two brilliant cameras for Snezh and I. Happy birthday Ben, i got you the camera i always wanted.


For lunch we got this thing which i can only describe as a giant fried ball full of veg and fish, covered in sauce and cheese, and yes, as always, we were expected to eat it with chopsticks.

Akihabara is the capital for electronic outlets, Anime and of course, Hentai. Trown, youre going to have a field trip when you get here. Its very hectic and specialises in Maid Cafe's, where men like to go and hire some maids to treat them like children and have tea parties and play jenga and other such fun games. The maids hand out fliers on the streets, sadly I didnt have the camera at that point. Its also riddled with arcades. Win.


Sunday we were invited to a Japanese BBQ organised by the campus mates, there were about 30 of us i reckon, foreign and Japanese, and everyone got a chance to cook. It was on the coast,
pretty close to Disneyland Tokyo, you could see the castle in the distance,
it was pretty cool.

It was held in a park with a bbq patch, as well as giant sight seeing wheel and beach. There was a phenomenal amount of meat at the BBQ, and delicious noodle, it was a great day, after mass amounts of food we walked across a giant bridge to the duney beach and played volleyball, watched the weird little dogs being walked and the adorable children playing with the sand, it felt like we were on holiday, i cannot wait until spring break to go exploring the rest of the country. (More pictures are gonna find their way to facebook eventually.) After finding our way home with about 2 kilos of left over meat, we had a massive dinner and crashed out, Charlie and i managed to live to our heritage and burn ourselves in the sun. It was brilliant, i need to get out of the city more. We rode the wheel when everyone else had made their way home as the sun was going down and got a brilliant view of the edge of the city, even as far out as we were, it was still impressively build up.

Bens told me hes going to come out at the beginning of November, i cant wait. Most things i see i remind myself to take him when he comes, its awesome ive got the opportunity twice. Everyone has to see this country once in their lives, its so alien, you'll never see anything like it.