Being awesome, made to look easy.
Watch in awe as I effortlessly make the interesting seem dull:
The top video is from just outside Yokohama station. It is very busy round there and there is lots to see. I went in a store call Yodobashi, which Ed would love - it is the largest electronics store I have ever seen. It's has 7/8 floors and each on is massive. It's odd as well as they were showing Resident Evil on 67inch HD TVs with the sounds up massively loud. Still, I'm not complaining - it was awesome.
The second video is most of the walk from my flat to near where the station is. It's at night and very shakey as I was attempting not to get run over (they are not big on pavements here), but it gives you a vague idea of the area I live in.
I've not been up to too much. I went to a weird restaurant last night which is like the Japanese version of a takeaway place - only the food is actually really nice. You go in and there is a vending machine on the wall with pictures of different meals. You put money in and press the button for the meal you want and it spits a ticket at you. Then you sit at the bar and hand in your ticket. A couple of minutes later and the food is presented to you. It's all in like a mini stir fry thing and simmers away in front of you. Tis all quite fun. I'm finally starting to get a bit better at using chopsticks too which is handy. Atleast Japanese rice is really sticky, so it's easy to eat with chopsticks.
I also went to a supermarket to get some shopping. I bought totally random stuff, just to satisfy my curiosity. Most of it was lovely, though I bought some weird dessert thing which I didn't really like. It was like two small cubes which were of a very weird jelly-like consistency. They didn't really taste of anything to be honest. They were probably like urinal cakes or something - god knows.
Anyway, today I have just been chilling like a villain in my flat and enjoying the aircon. I am off out in a couple of minutes though as I want to go to the supermarket again and I also want to take a trip on the tube to see where I am supposed to be working.
The top video is from just outside Yokohama station. It is very busy round there and there is lots to see. I went in a store call Yodobashi, which Ed would love - it is the largest electronics store I have ever seen. It's has 7/8 floors and each on is massive. It's odd as well as they were showing Resident Evil on 67inch HD TVs with the sounds up massively loud. Still, I'm not complaining - it was awesome.
The second video is most of the walk from my flat to near where the station is. It's at night and very shakey as I was attempting not to get run over (they are not big on pavements here), but it gives you a vague idea of the area I live in.
I've not been up to too much. I went to a weird restaurant last night which is like the Japanese version of a takeaway place - only the food is actually really nice. You go in and there is a vending machine on the wall with pictures of different meals. You put money in and press the button for the meal you want and it spits a ticket at you. Then you sit at the bar and hand in your ticket. A couple of minutes later and the food is presented to you. It's all in like a mini stir fry thing and simmers away in front of you. Tis all quite fun. I'm finally starting to get a bit better at using chopsticks too which is handy. Atleast Japanese rice is really sticky, so it's easy to eat with chopsticks.
I also went to a supermarket to get some shopping. I bought totally random stuff, just to satisfy my curiosity. Most of it was lovely, though I bought some weird dessert thing which I didn't really like. It was like two small cubes which were of a very weird jelly-like consistency. They didn't really taste of anything to be honest. They were probably like urinal cakes or something - god knows.
Anyway, today I have just been chilling like a villain in my flat and enjoying the aircon. I am off out in a couple of minutes though as I want to go to the supermarket again and I also want to take a trip on the tube to see where I am supposed to be working.
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- I'm Andrew
- From Lincoln, United Kingdom
- I graduated from the University of Hull, where I studied Economics. I decided to go to Japan for a year to teach English and this blog is to chronicle my adventures.
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Great stuff. Am enjoying reading your thoughts on the culture out there. Are you going to tell us more about the people. I believe this is what they call "living through your friends"!
What does the title mean?
Sure - will discuss my initial impressions of the people in my next post.
The title means 'Where is the train station?'.