alicia and i met up at shinjuku station at our usual exit and headed to mcdonalds to get some lunch. of course it was quite tasty! then off to NS7 dept. for my tattoo appointment. the lady who works there booked me early so that she could be told what i wanted (she speaks english too) and then tell the guy in japanese what i wanted. she was booked for the day, but the guy is talented too.

it took about an hour to sketch up the kanji and hiragana sentence then it was off to work. it came out really really nicely, of course it hurt but whatever. during the tattooing time he kept asking me if i was ok, etc. hes a nice guy. the tattoo is sooo cool! i love it so much! then he took some pics of it and i took a pic with him, and after saying our thank-yous, alicia and i headed for home.

got home all bandaged up and ate a large dinner. the grandma was over today and food was tasty. hung out with the family for a while and chatting for a while before going to bed.

good times.

its finallllly donnnnne! YAY

woke up a little later this morning, at about 9:30AM and got ready to go to takumi's halloween party. he was a superhero, pretty cool. they walked around the neighborhood in their little costumes and headed to the nearby park for games, food, and candy. i was there till about 12:00PM and headed to school. mario dressed up as super mario and looked cute with his little mustache and blue coveralls. alicia was kiri from panic channel, and i saw a few other students in costume too. shortly after that headed upstairs to the dean's lunch. (a few of us were chosen to have lunch with the dean of the school and to discuss school matters) dont know why i was chosen, but eh whatever. it was nice and glad that i could be a part of it.

then took my class and then headed home for dinner, which was tasty.

yay

got up at 5:30AM and got ready for the day. jumped onto the yamonote (sp?) line and transfered at tokyo station onto the keiyo line which goes to tokyo disneyland! yay! got there and bought herman and my ticket, and waited for everyone to arrive. everyone (yu, herman, and mike) got there just in time for the park to open. and off we went! yaaay!

the first ride was the little rocket ships. yu and herman were in one, while mike and i were in the other. mike is a tall kid so that ride hurt his legs cause he had to squish up. i took a pic of herman and yu and got yelled at in japanese. well, couldnt pretend that i didnt know japanese since i was laughing. haha!

we rode many rides throughout the day. food is actually cheap at the park so we snacked and ate all day, it was yummy. some of the rides that we went on included 'space tours' 'thunder mountain' (im probably butchering these names..) 'pirates of the caribbean' (no jack), etc.
we also went into the tea cups, with the 4 of us squishing ourselves into a single cup. herman and mike wanted to spin fast, while yu and i didnt. so we were fighting over the spinning wheel the whole time! haha!

since it was close to halloween, and the whole park decorated in halloween - many many people came in costumes. - some soo good that people thought that they were the real deal at the park. cool huh?

we had bad luck with the parades though - it seemed that everytime that we got off of a ride - they would start to close off the main path for a parade - so we would have to figure out in a hurry where we needed to go - or be stuck on a certain side for the whole parade..

the park has fast passes - which we used twice. we must have done it correctly cause we got onto about 6 or so rides throughout the day, even with it being so crowded. everyone got onto the rides that they wanted, with a few extra rides on the side. my ride of choice is the haunted mansion - but was decorated completely outside and inside of the house with nightmare before xmas. the whole ride takes you through the city and scenes of the movie, it was pretty darn cool!

finally at night there was a different parade (we had seen the same parade 3 times) at night. it was a twinkle light parade, it was so pretty! we left the park at 8:30PM to beat the crowds at 10:00PM which is when the park closes. so we were there from 8AM-8:30PM, it was soo much fun! the weather was gorgeous too! yaaaaaay!

today got ready for the day, but we (host mom and boy) had to rush to the JR train station via bikes. made it to our train just in time, and later had to transfer onto different trains. today we headed off to okaasan's (host mom) uncle's house. we got there and had some tea and crackers with the grandma, the great grandma, uncle, boy, okaasan, and a cousin. it was nice and enjoyable, and the house is very nice too.

then off to the grocery store to find some food for lunch, then we went to a pretty park nearby (got to all these places by car) and ate our tastey food there. we had a mix of japanese food, not-so-japanese food, and mcdonalds french fries. hehe. takumi and i played on the weird slide for a bit, then off it was to another park nearby.

this place is huge with pink and white wild flowers or whatnots. the day was absolutely gorgeous, we spent a lot of time in the land of pink. then we went to the uncle's hobby garden - which is quite huge. we dug for different vegetables for a while and headed back to the house from there. then it was off (via train again) for home and dinner.

good day! gotta get up early tomorrow for disneyland!

got up early to go to school - even though we had the day off. a bunch of us american kids signed up for a cultural and english exchange with warabi highschool. the first thing we did was, breaking into groups and talking with the students. our group (me, naomi, victoria, and jesse) was pretty shy, only the same few girls answered questions or asked us questions. afterwards the US students were read a traditional story, taught to make the crane for origami, and a traditional japanese ceremony by the japanese students. it was fun! then we ate lunch with everyone, and then jesse, ben and i headed towards a train station - to meet up with their class at the ghibli museum. that place is so cool! could not take hardly any photos inside, but it was fun.

then jesse, jess, john, and i bummed around the area and headed to roppongi. shortly after jesse left and the rest of us went to don quixote for random halloween costume parts for the upcoming international halloween party in roppongi. a lot of students and friends from my school came in random costumes, everyone looked awesome! the party was a lot of fun with free food and drinks. and a cool costume contest too. hung out for a while and got home around 12AM.

today was really busy but a lot of fun!!!

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mishkuu's Halloween party:

amberxenon dressed as a junior corporate spy department janitor.
angryface03 dressed as Ashlee Simpson riding a camel.
djnaughty dressed as Barney Gumble.
horse2424 dressed as something drunk, but what, specifically, you can't tell.
kodokumousou gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as a new superhero: Elasti- Android.
kotsuki dressed as an external hard drive.
koyasuslave dressed as Madonna.
kumathebear dressed as the spirit of their dead grandmother Kelley.
kuroiyokan dressed as a zombie.
maddogg2216 dressed as the Duke of West NotusCity.
redrabbitaf dressed as Karl Rove.
ricecakeburner dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Dwarf of Darkness, and it suited them all too well.
screwbuddah dressed as Al Pacino, though it looked more like a new superhero: Snow -wave.
spookeydonkey dressed as a 1990's grunge child.
sugoi_sakura dressed as a character from "Duck Soup".
tatinthehat dressed as the love child of Tom Cruise and Janet Reno.
vamp_dust dressed as Optimus Prime.
xenosg dressed as Moltar.
yuuwaku dressed as Captain Kirk from "Star Trek".

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yesturday classes went well. talked to mom, nicki in between classes. it was pretty cool! i hadnt heard them in a while, i could hear my mom calling my sister a dumbass. haha, i miss it. (and got a MEH from a de kat) got lunch (alicia, jess, satomi, and i) at our little japanese cheapy place, 'twas tasty. then hung around school for a bit, watched a movie in the library 'supersize me', pretty good. did some homework, and then headed home. dinner was a noodle thing with pieces of carrots, sausage, cabbage, and stuff. tasty! (yukitori i think its called) then from there i played with the kid for a while. it was a lot of fun, he made up random little games (pretty good games at that) and we played for a few hours. then i took a shower and a hot soakey in the tub, felt nice. japan is getting cold now, so it felt gooood. around 8:30PM they went to bed and i watched 'the squid and the whale', then 'the birds' before going to bed late at 2AM. shh.. dont tell anyone! lol! the semester is winding down, dont have a lot going on now. can only study so much at this point - so it was a movie night. yay!

got up and wondered around the neighborhood exploring, found some neat little places that i didnt know existed before. then around 11AM dad and teresa called me - i hadnt heard their voices in so long. it was nice to chat. we chatted for abit, then it was off to meet alicia in shinjuku station. man, that station is confusing!! took us almost an hour to figure out where we both were in relation to each other. she was in a station thats almost connected to shinjuku station, took a different line than me, etc. finally figured it out. crazyness.

then headed off to closet child (where new cds, used cds, and used band merchandise is sold) and played around there. i bought a $2 plastictree fanclub book, its pretty old but neat. then went to a store called 'like an edison' nearby, didnt buy anything there - i was good. hehe! they have both new and used cds as well. (mainly new) artists usually come here for album promotions and such. saw a few signed boards by plastic tree, sid, kaya, and and oldie from psycho le cemu. nice. from there we found the tattoo place, NS7. the place is very tiny but nice. the lady saw me and welcomed me right away, speaking perfect english. i told her of my idea and she proceeded with many but great questions for me. she even showed me a book showing different styles to write kanji and hiragana - which i must look into now. just all good ideas. shes pretty booked up for a while, but a guy she works with can help too. i looked through their artwork, very nice stuff. going to try to get an appointment for nov. 10th or nov. 11th. got her business card and headed to the other tattoo place.

dont remember what area of tokyo it was in, it was a JR train station away from shinjuku station. the people at this place (inkrat tattoo) spoke a little english but were helpful. alicia and i went back and forth using our japanese, it worked out ok. although i was not asked a lot of great questions as i was by the first lady. both places charge about the same amount, not too bad actually. think im going to go to the first place, i really hope i can get an appointment!

from there headed back home, got back home and the grandma was there again. yay! they had all been to a toy store, and the boy was excited to show me. dinner was tasty again, and later that night the grandma headed off for home. we all hung out for a while, and went to bed.

today worked out great! yes!

went to school early (8:45AM) to go to a talk - given by the same guy who owns the 'how to draw manga' series, and my 'manga de kanji' books here in japan. the drawing books have been used a lot by me, and the kanji books used often for practice and quizzes for school. it was a nice talk, learned a lot about the company, globalization of anime/manga, etc. i was invited to the company sometime before i leave to speak with the company and the important people - possibly about future ideas for books, my opinions, etc. im really looking forward to it!! :)

around 1:00PM met up with christy and headed off to akihabra, the geek's paradise. we got there pretty well, we found the district on our own etc. i went looking for cheapy but nice headphones, and a kanji game thing for my DS. christy was looking for an mp3 player. we wondered around the area, got KFC for lunch. (NO MASHED POTATOES, WHYYY) but it was alright tasting though, we both had never had it here in japan. then we found our items and walked around some more. lots of girls in maid outfits walking around, etc. accidently walked into some anime/manga porn stores, ya that was interesting.. lol. then we headed off to shibuya to kill some time. she bought some shoes, and i checked out a tattoo place that i was curious about. the 2 guys in there didnt welcome us or anything, left right away. no thanks. good job guys, you could have just lost some money and recommendations.. whatever. then i left for home while christy waited in shibuya for her date. got home in time for dinner.

the grandma was over and spent the night. we had a big feast, so tasty. had homemade onigiri (rice balls) for the first time, soo good. and i was fixed my own special plate of niku (meat) and green peppers, a fav. of mine. the rest of the family ate a late lunch so they nibbled here and there. (my host mom doesnt like niku - which is either chicken or pork. she likes seafood best. so sometimes i get my own little plate of goodness) after dinner i showed the grandma some pictures, which she loved. and then my hostmom mentioned my japanese book, so i went and got it from my room and showed the grandma. she then proceeded to quiz me in kanji (just messing around) i got about 80% right, yay! she was happy and so was i, it gave my confidence a boost. then a little later everyone went to bed.

fun dayyyy! :)