So my goal for the week is to at least start blogging and posting pics of China, but I dunno if that will happen today. Anyway, I will blog about my weekend in the meantime, as it is much shorter and easier to talk about than two weeks of touring a huge country!
So on Friday I “secretly” left work 20 minutes early (tho it is difficult to do this secretly, as my bike is parked right in front of the staffroom windows, so I am sure I was seen) to catch the train to Tokyo to see Sweeney Todd with Ann. HOLIE, it was sooooooooooooooooo good! I would usually refuse to see a Sondheim musical in Japanese (or any foreign language), just because Sondheim plays with language and it is impossible to translate it accordingly. However, I loved it! The reason I went to it in the first place was because it was by a really famous director with a famous cast, so I figured it should be good. It went beyond my expectations fo sho! It had great directing, great acting, great sets, great costumes, great lighting....it was fucking awesome! Of course the show is muy fucked up (about a barber who kills his customers, then turns them into meat pies), but it was damn good. Plus the lady who played Mrs. Lovett ROCKED! It worked really well with a Japanese woman, as Japanese women are good at playing crazy-ass obaachans! Haha. She was cool! Anyway, the show was great, I am very glad we saw it, even if it was from the last row (stupid Japan is evil and never gives Jeff The Spoiled Theatre Queen good seats!).
After the show I had the worst train ride of my life (long story, but Jeff was sweaty and crammed against the door and NOT amused with Tokyo!) on my way to Saitama to meet up with Natsumi and Adam! Natsumi was my RA when I studied abroad at Senshu and I am horrible and haven’t seen her in like 300 years! Anyway, I met up with them for the weekend and it was fun! Friday night we did a bit of karaoke, which I hadn’t done in forever. Saturday morning Natsumi and I had McDonald’s breakfast, which is SO FUCKING GOOD. I hadn’t had it since March! You had better believe I got two value meals up in hea, yo! Mmmmmmm.
In the afternoon we went to Ochanomizu, which is by far like the most random area in Tokyo EVER! It is nothing but guitar and snowboarding shops? Weird! Anyway, we ended up at Natural Lawson in the end, which is always good. I love Natural Lawson, I want to live there!
We then met up with Andrew, another friend from study abroad who is in Japan for a couple weeks with his friend Mark. We went to happy hour for a while, where I tried absinthe for the first time (ooo, I sound like Ewan McGregor!). However, sadly it did nothing for me, sigh. Then we met up with Neil, yet another person from study abroad (talk about a reunion!) and went to another place to drink. Then we drank some more and trained it back to Saitama for THREE HOURS of karaoke! Dude, that is hardcore! That definitely made up for my lack of karaoke as of late! But I understand the need for karaoke, as Andrew hadn’t done it in like two years, kawaisou!
On Sunday I had to head back to Gunma, and fortunately I had to norikae in Omiya, i.e. the best eki in the world! I got a shitload of REAL baked bread and bagels and shit. Mmmmm.
Anyway, the weekend was muy fun! It was nice to see people again, and to get the hell outta Gunma for a while! Thanks, Nacchan and Adam!
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Thanks for coming and hanging out. You missed out on Sunday tho, we saw a bunch of idol-wannabe girls singing and dancing in the street with their legions of otaku fans dancing, taking pictures, and texting all at the same time. The maid cafe was good too. 800 yen for curry rice or pasta which was actually good, all you can drink soft drinks, all you can eat candy, plus a bunch of video games. It wasn't erotic or weird either.
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