Booking, offing, and whatever else
So today was Carl and Oren's last full day in Japan.
We went to Shinjuku to get okonomiyaki for lunch and meet up with![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
samuelp. Sam is a total anime dork, and unlike me, Carl and Oren actually know about anime/manga, so they had stuff to talk about.
Went to Jimbocho after that, where I re-found Biblio at long last, but it was closed. Oren got the Go books he wanted, and then we lurked at Sanseido for a while; others looked at comics and I got a JLPT application form. I also got depressed reading the 2008 JLPT 2-kyuu test. I suck so much at Japanese. At least, when it has nothing to do with sports... I also bought three baseball magazines. THOSE I can read...
I got a kazoo, too! I'd been looking for one for like a year and saw one in a random music store while I was hunting for Biblio.
Onwards, we walked to Akihabara from there, in the briefly-not-raining cool weather. Basically, Carl tachiyomied at Bookoff for a while, and the rest of us went to Yodobashi after a little browsing, and eventually all converged upon Starbucks, by which point it was already 6pm. Carl and I had gotten anpan from Kimuraya in the Keio department store in Shinjuku (I insisted) but everyone else was hungry, so Sam ended up heading home at that point, and Oren and Carl and I went to Ikebukuro, where we got kaitensushi for dinner at the 136-yen place on the east side. I had 10 plates and they each had 6. I'm a glutton. Carl actually ate the "Japanese maki" of natto and avocado though. Yuck.
Carl and I beat Block People on the futsuu level after that! Hooray. Then the three of us played Quiz Magic Academy for a few rounds before adjourning.
Kanamecho after that for me and Carl, to the Bookoff. I saw many things that would be gratuitous to get, but not worth spending the money right now... like a Doala DVD where one of the features was "Morino and Doala go to yakitori together". I realize that would undoubtedly be amusing, but would it be 1950 yen of amusing right now? Probably not. Instead, I ended up on the second floor reading an English novel called "Ugly Americans". It was only 100 yen so I ended up buying it, even though I rarely seem to read ANYTHING anymore. I'm still trying to collect the rest of the old Spitz albums for 250 or 500 yen, but mostly failing.
Then, home. Carl helped me read the thing for gaijin kyufukin. Hooray! I will send it in later this week after I can copy the appropriate ID to send with it.
Waaaaah they leave tomorrow. Then Tuesday I go back to work. How weird.
Also, there seems to have been an election here, the gist of which is "goodbye to the LDP, hello to umm... some other people who aren't the LDP?"
We went to Shinjuku to get okonomiyaki for lunch and meet up with
samuelp. Sam is a total anime dork, and unlike me, Carl and Oren actually know about anime/manga, so they had stuff to talk about.Went to Jimbocho after that, where I re-found Biblio at long last, but it was closed. Oren got the Go books he wanted, and then we lurked at Sanseido for a while; others looked at comics and I got a JLPT application form. I also got depressed reading the 2008 JLPT 2-kyuu test. I suck so much at Japanese. At least, when it has nothing to do with sports... I also bought three baseball magazines. THOSE I can read...
I got a kazoo, too! I'd been looking for one for like a year and saw one in a random music store while I was hunting for Biblio.
Onwards, we walked to Akihabara from there, in the briefly-not-raining cool weather. Basically, Carl tachiyomied at Bookoff for a while, and the rest of us went to Yodobashi after a little browsing, and eventually all converged upon Starbucks, by which point it was already 6pm. Carl and I had gotten anpan from Kimuraya in the Keio department store in Shinjuku (I insisted) but everyone else was hungry, so Sam ended up heading home at that point, and Oren and Carl and I went to Ikebukuro, where we got kaitensushi for dinner at the 136-yen place on the east side. I had 10 plates and they each had 6. I'm a glutton. Carl actually ate the "Japanese maki" of natto and avocado though. Yuck.
Carl and I beat Block People on the futsuu level after that! Hooray. Then the three of us played Quiz Magic Academy for a few rounds before adjourning.
Kanamecho after that for me and Carl, to the Bookoff. I saw many things that would be gratuitous to get, but not worth spending the money right now... like a Doala DVD where one of the features was "Morino and Doala go to yakitori together". I realize that would undoubtedly be amusing, but would it be 1950 yen of amusing right now? Probably not. Instead, I ended up on the second floor reading an English novel called "Ugly Americans". It was only 100 yen so I ended up buying it, even though I rarely seem to read ANYTHING anymore. I'm still trying to collect the rest of the old Spitz albums for 250 or 500 yen, but mostly failing.
Then, home. Carl helped me read the thing for gaijin kyufukin. Hooray! I will send it in later this week after I can copy the appropriate ID to send with it.
Waaaaah they leave tomorrow. Then Tuesday I go back to work. How weird.
Also, there seems to have been an election here, the gist of which is "goodbye to the LDP, hello to umm... some other people who aren't the LDP?"
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For studying for the JLPT, try readthekanji.com. I'm not sure if you're into doing quizzes but it should teach you some new kanji and vocab, and it's based around what shows up on the test, and I think it does spaced repetition, which is supposed to help with memorization.