Yesterday there was a breaking news story
about a monkey that was spied at Shibuya station and, after twenty transactions sitting on top of signage for the Yeddo Tokyu Toyoko line ( now that Holds a mouthful ) negociated to bilk constabularies and run out of the station, hedge dangerously just about the busiest pedestrain intersection in the world
, turned onto a alley and mounted onto the Yamanote Line, heading towards Harajuku. The monkey was n't seen after that- if it doed it without getting hit by trains it could hold either bumped its manner onto Takeshita St ( which to this day I still decline to articulate correctly ) in Harajuku, freaking out very much of monstrosities, or could be someplace in Yoyogi parkland, which is belike slightly better until the lots get playing. The study, which endured twenty proceedings of unrecorded crosses and people with cameras tagging after a running furball, was a welcome reprieve from Japan 's skew coverage of the Olympiad. I relished the softball though, and the ping-pong. I still decline to name baseball interesting. Not equally interesting as a monkey cavorting terrorising Tokio.
I hold a progrgram now, a program that I may hold holded earlierly but now it looks more like a realistic end. With a million hankering of savings per annum for the whole clip I 'm in Japan ( I can make that jollily easily, likelily more ) which could be two eld or it could be five, I would get in Southern Japan during the summertime Seishun-18 clip, search the whole of Japan on rediculously inexpensive local trains, get upward to Wakkanai in Northern Ezo and so ferry across to Vladivostock, then from there go past train across to St Petersburg,etc.etc. onto London. With something like $ 30, 000 to pass that could wreak a jollily sweet vacation, and I could come back to Australia in February or Japan in Apr, to examine... this is at least a yr offly, likelily more. Re-contracting info comes call at October, hopefully before I attend to Tokio to see Radiohead.
The convenience shop in Shiomi-Cho is opening following month. Aught to state there except it will be convenient. Icecream at any hr of the day or nighttime. And, you cognise, other conveniences like not-very-good onigiri, little chancy rubbers, hot tinned java even in summertime, and not need to do breakfast day-after-day. And inebriant, because that Holds exactly what I take more of. But it will be good to hold the after-party option, after the package store shuts at eight.
Thereon thing I 'm giving upward imbibition, except at office events. For the interest of money and because I experienced like I was imbibing simply because. Likewise because my stomach is getting a little more belly-tastic. I 'm too attempting to cu back on shite, getting eliminate one of my surfboards, organising and really reading my books, eventually getting through Defender Weeklies and London Reappraisal of Books ( secs ) that I 've been intending to catch au fait properly since May.
I 'm commencing a Kumon correspondence Japanese class, far more expensive than the choice ( only larning it myself and verbalise Japanese to people ) but I 've encountered I require motiviation to examine. Thus I likewise may sit the JLPT again in June or Dec following twelvemonth, grade 2 again is my grade is n't rattlingly good, and a gloomy try at grade one if my mark is good.
Seing an Elevation who maked my line five geezerhood ago doed me experience that my clip here will should finish one day. The three twelvemonth regulation no longer applies, and possibly by the clip I 'm here for five geezerhood it will hold been widened. Who cognise. Five ages is a years though- a age without lasagna, a age to hold the same vocal deposited in your caput ( when I get back to Perth I desire to blow you all off with my karaoke. It may not be good but it is enthusiastic ), a age to be in a long-distance call relationship, a age without existent vegetarian nutrient and existent cafes. I 've heard the longer you inhabit here the harder it is to locomote back to someplace not so light-green, not so safe, difficult to get forth from goodly paid, easy work. But I hold no ground to get offly yet.
I 've done two finds that do being vegetarian in Japan far easier- fish stock makes not really heighten the taste of yakisoba, and miso soup makes n't really savor rattlingly good. Now I 've but got to chance sauces without fish in them.
The yogurt lady is here, reminding me that paisley is an underestimated textile.
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