Sunday -- Photopost of wandering around Keio Yagami campus
So, the Dragons had to go and sweep the entirety of the CL playoffs, which means there were no games today or tomorrow. It worked out ok in the end; today I got to hang out with ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alibash finally! and tomorrow I'll go hang out with Pau again.
I just tried to go to Lawson's to get my money back for my tickets, though, and they were unable to do anything about it. It was kind of odd, I went in and explained "blah blah bought tickets, then Dragons won the series, so the games are cancelled..." and the guy's like "oh, ok, no problem", except apparently there WAS some sort of problem, and the system kept beeping at them. The other guy there also came over and he had a paper basically saying "people can get refunds for their tickets between 10/21 at 10am and 10/27 at 11pm", and I said "But today IS Monday the 22nd," and he's like "oh good point," and he opened a manual and looked through it, and they tried to scan the tickets back again, and then...
...they said something to me I completely didn't understand. So I said that I didn't understand, and they started explaining the situation again and asked if I could come back in the morning. Except, here's the funny part: I didn't understand the Japanese word for "daytime", ie, "hiruma". I understood the situation. BUT, apparently they thought I spoke Japanese at a reasonable level, so when I said "I don't understand," they thought I didn't understand why I had to come back the next day, not that I didn't understand the words of "Can you come back in the daytime?"
I guess I'll go back sometime tomorrow or soon. I had brought my KDDI bill with me to pay since it's about the same amount of money as the tickets were for, but alas. Maybe next time.
Anyway, last night after work all I did was come home and watch the Dragons win the game and then I went up to Tonden and got yummy food which I ended up splattering all over my clothes because I'm a big klutz. Turns out Tonden is like 3 blocks from that batting cage I saw the other day, and I'm still too scared to go in. While I was at dinner, depressed about not knowing what to do with my Sunday, I emailedalibash on a whim to see if he was free, and amazingly, he was!
So, today I went down to Hiyoshi station -- which took me like an hour and a half, it's down near Yokohama -- and met up with Krispy, and we went to what was essentially his Keio campus (Yagami, the engineering school)'s version of Carnival. There were no rides, but there were TONS of food booths, and a big stage, and a lot of stuff for kids to do in a big playground, and inside the buildings there were things like a haunted house, and various exhibitions of stuff. I got to see cool robots (which I didn't get pictures of), and a gigantic model train set, and some various other things with Keio clubs, and we watched some kids launching plastic bottle rockets, and Krispy showed me the lab he works in. After wandering through the festival for a while and getting scared off by the overly genki food booth people (who literally would run up to us and shove a cardboard sign in our faces of their booth's food and yell something like "YAKITORI, IKAGA DESUKAAAAAA?" or whatever at us), we wandered back to Hiyoshi station and walked around a bit in the shopping streets (which were, btw, awesome, I love how that area is organized).
We went to an arcade for a while -- now that I think about it I probably met Krispy playing DDR at CMU like 7 years ago -- and he played Pop'n Battle with me, which was a lot of fun. AND, the arcade had a Pop'n plushie UFO catcher!! I swear that in all this time I'd never actually seen one, just seen the plushies in catalogs or on ebay or whatever. Holy crap! Of course it was nigh impossible, and Krispy even saw some of his friends at the arcade and asked for help, and the guy was like "oh, this is a tough one. You have to keep shoving it towards the entry... there's no way you can do this in less than 500 yen." Sigh. They also had a IIDX figurine UFO catcher, no joke, which I didn't even remotely try playing with.
After that we got ramen at a place called Rasta Ramen (well, Rasuta). I got the "rasutamen", which was basically a gigantic bowl of ramen with nori and a hardboiled egg and some meat and some spinach and all this stuff. It was huuuuuuge. Krispy ate about half of his. I ate my entire bowl, since I hadn't had a real meal yet that day. Then when we went outside, he showed me how to use the GPS on my cellphone, wheee! Now I will can stop worrying about where the hell I am when I ride my bike!
We wandered to where Krispy lives, in Motosumiyoshi. He has a nice apartment (not much bigger than mine, but obviously newer construction) with real furniture, which makes me jealous, I want a real desk and bed and everything dammit. We hung out and played computer games for a while, mostly Lex the Bookworm or whatever it's called, solving word puzzles. He showed me the game Portal, but much like other first-person games, it made me feel really dizzy and kind of sick, so I couldn't really play it. Oops.
By then it was around 8 and I wanted to get home to do laundry. We went back towards the station and I got to meet Krispy's girlfriend Sophie for a little while, as she had just arrived at the station. She seems really nice (and apparently speaks many many languages), and maybe sometime later we can all hang out somewhere more central like Shibuya or Shinjuku! We'll see.
I got on a train at Motosumiyoshi at 8:28pm and I got into Warabi at like 9:47pm. I rode my bike home, put all of my clothes in my backpack suitcase and went to the laundromat and did laundry. I sorted baseball cards while waiting for it to be done, which was kind of funny. And then I came home, and then I went to Lawson's to try to get my money back, and that's about full circle.
NOW THE REST OF THIS IS A PHOTO POST WHEEEEEE YES, THERE'S EVEN ONE PICTURE OF ME IN THERE I SWEAR
Stairs leading up to Yagami campus, decorated for the "Infinity 8th" Yagamisai.
I think this is supposed to be "Hello", to welcome people to the Yagami festival, but it looks kind of like "HELL".
Yay train club!
This is the building Krispy's lab is in. This is the view of people making balloons in the lobby, from the fourth floor.
A girl pumps air into her plastic bottle rocket.
Another boy goes to refill his rocket.
One of the random genki booths. I thought the signs were funny.
Some festival signs, right outside of campus.
Keio Yagami is a smokefree campus. The funny part is that usually you see people smoking by these signs, since they say "smoke free campus but here's a smoking area".
Here's me by the university sign.
The Hiyoshi shrine is right by campus, but Krispy's never gone there...
...partially because they involve this gigantic set of stairs. I didn't feel like climbing them either.
Pop'n UFO catcher at the arcade in Hiyoshi. WAAAAAAAH.
Another sign on the Pop'n UFO catcher.
Another UFO catcher which had IIDX figurines in it.
And last but not least the street sign for "Bremen Street", which comes out from Motosumiyoshi station.
Hey, funny, I just realized I didn't take any pictures of Krispy at all. I was thinking that I've been notoriously bad at taking photos of friends since I came to Japan, with the exception of Kat and Jesse. Weird.
alibash finally! and tomorrow I'll go hang out with Pau again.I just tried to go to Lawson's to get my money back for my tickets, though, and they were unable to do anything about it. It was kind of odd, I went in and explained "blah blah bought tickets, then Dragons won the series, so the games are cancelled..." and the guy's like "oh, ok, no problem", except apparently there WAS some sort of problem, and the system kept beeping at them. The other guy there also came over and he had a paper basically saying "people can get refunds for their tickets between 10/21 at 10am and 10/27 at 11pm", and I said "But today IS Monday the 22nd," and he's like "oh good point," and he opened a manual and looked through it, and they tried to scan the tickets back again, and then...
...they said something to me I completely didn't understand. So I said that I didn't understand, and they started explaining the situation again and asked if I could come back in the morning. Except, here's the funny part: I didn't understand the Japanese word for "daytime", ie, "hiruma". I understood the situation. BUT, apparently they thought I spoke Japanese at a reasonable level, so when I said "I don't understand," they thought I didn't understand why I had to come back the next day, not that I didn't understand the words of "Can you come back in the daytime?"
I guess I'll go back sometime tomorrow or soon. I had brought my KDDI bill with me to pay since it's about the same amount of money as the tickets were for, but alas. Maybe next time.
Anyway, last night after work all I did was come home and watch the Dragons win the game and then I went up to Tonden and got yummy food which I ended up splattering all over my clothes because I'm a big klutz. Turns out Tonden is like 3 blocks from that batting cage I saw the other day, and I'm still too scared to go in. While I was at dinner, depressed about not knowing what to do with my Sunday, I emailed
alibash on a whim to see if he was free, and amazingly, he was!So, today I went down to Hiyoshi station -- which took me like an hour and a half, it's down near Yokohama -- and met up with Krispy, and we went to what was essentially his Keio campus (Yagami, the engineering school)'s version of Carnival. There were no rides, but there were TONS of food booths, and a big stage, and a lot of stuff for kids to do in a big playground, and inside the buildings there were things like a haunted house, and various exhibitions of stuff. I got to see cool robots (which I didn't get pictures of), and a gigantic model train set, and some various other things with Keio clubs, and we watched some kids launching plastic bottle rockets, and Krispy showed me the lab he works in. After wandering through the festival for a while and getting scared off by the overly genki food booth people (who literally would run up to us and shove a cardboard sign in our faces of their booth's food and yell something like "YAKITORI, IKAGA DESUKAAAAAA?" or whatever at us), we wandered back to Hiyoshi station and walked around a bit in the shopping streets (which were, btw, awesome, I love how that area is organized).
We went to an arcade for a while -- now that I think about it I probably met Krispy playing DDR at CMU like 7 years ago -- and he played Pop'n Battle with me, which was a lot of fun. AND, the arcade had a Pop'n plushie UFO catcher!! I swear that in all this time I'd never actually seen one, just seen the plushies in catalogs or on ebay or whatever. Holy crap! Of course it was nigh impossible, and Krispy even saw some of his friends at the arcade and asked for help, and the guy was like "oh, this is a tough one. You have to keep shoving it towards the entry... there's no way you can do this in less than 500 yen." Sigh. They also had a IIDX figurine UFO catcher, no joke, which I didn't even remotely try playing with.
After that we got ramen at a place called Rasta Ramen (well, Rasuta). I got the "rasutamen", which was basically a gigantic bowl of ramen with nori and a hardboiled egg and some meat and some spinach and all this stuff. It was huuuuuuge. Krispy ate about half of his. I ate my entire bowl, since I hadn't had a real meal yet that day. Then when we went outside, he showed me how to use the GPS on my cellphone, wheee! Now I will can stop worrying about where the hell I am when I ride my bike!
We wandered to where Krispy lives, in Motosumiyoshi. He has a nice apartment (not much bigger than mine, but obviously newer construction) with real furniture, which makes me jealous, I want a real desk and bed and everything dammit. We hung out and played computer games for a while, mostly Lex the Bookworm or whatever it's called, solving word puzzles. He showed me the game Portal, but much like other first-person games, it made me feel really dizzy and kind of sick, so I couldn't really play it. Oops.
By then it was around 8 and I wanted to get home to do laundry. We went back towards the station and I got to meet Krispy's girlfriend Sophie for a little while, as she had just arrived at the station. She seems really nice (and apparently speaks many many languages), and maybe sometime later we can all hang out somewhere more central like Shibuya or Shinjuku! We'll see.
I got on a train at Motosumiyoshi at 8:28pm and I got into Warabi at like 9:47pm. I rode my bike home, put all of my clothes in my backpack suitcase and went to the laundromat and did laundry. I sorted baseball cards while waiting for it to be done, which was kind of funny. And then I came home, and then I went to Lawson's to try to get my money back, and that's about full circle.
NOW THE REST OF THIS IS A PHOTO POST WHEEEEEE YES, THERE'S EVEN ONE PICTURE OF ME IN THERE I SWEAR
Stairs leading up to Yagami campus, decorated for the "Infinity 8th" Yagamisai.
I think this is supposed to be "Hello", to welcome people to the Yagami festival, but it looks kind of like "HELL".
Yay train club!
This is the building Krispy's lab is in. This is the view of people making balloons in the lobby, from the fourth floor.
A girl pumps air into her plastic bottle rocket.
Another boy goes to refill his rocket.
One of the random genki booths. I thought the signs were funny.
Some festival signs, right outside of campus.
Keio Yagami is a smokefree campus. The funny part is that usually you see people smoking by these signs, since they say "smoke free campus but here's a smoking area".
Here's me by the university sign.
The Hiyoshi shrine is right by campus, but Krispy's never gone there...
...partially because they involve this gigantic set of stairs. I didn't feel like climbing them either.
Pop'n UFO catcher at the arcade in Hiyoshi. WAAAAAAAH.
Another sign on the Pop'n UFO catcher.
Another UFO catcher which had IIDX figurines in it.
And last but not least the street sign for "Bremen Street", which comes out from Motosumiyoshi station.
Hey, funny, I just realized I didn't take any pictures of Krispy at all. I was thinking that I've been notoriously bad at taking photos of friends since I came to Japan, with the exception of Kat and Jesse. Weird.
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