they respect us.

 yesterday, at the shizuoka station, we saw some high school-ish girls talking about us (or, at least, i did). I thought they were just talking bad about us behind our back, but they were actually saying "ya~! so no co kawaii, ne! so no america-jin kawaii ne!" (sorry, i don't have japanese on this computer TT__TT) which means "wow~! that girl is so cute! those american people are so cute!" i guess that means they don't hate us... and that they don't think we're the fattest, laziest, most unmannered people here. so, that's good. now, whenever i'm down, i'm going to think of them. yay! ^__^

anyways, the reason why we were there in the first place was to go to what zak and kyle thought was "some stupid art museum". i didn't think it was going to be that fun, either... i just wanted to get the guys away from their video games and outside in the fresh, japanese air~!

anyways, it turned out to not be an art museum, but a science museum. and wow, it was really cool! don't think it was just for little kids-the other people we saw there were probably in high school or college. anyways, since it was so empty, (us and about 5 other people; 3 floors) we really got the full experience. there were so many workers there to help us, since we couldn't read kanji. there was one where you got to go on a spinning platform, you just kept spinning and spinning. i wish i could go back! i hope it's not always that empty, or it'll get bankrupt. or maybe not-i've never seen a science museum out of business... but i'm sure it can happen. 

 aside from my sidetracking, i also went on a hamster wheel-type thing. kyle and zak couldn't, since they were wearing sandals. they took a picture of me, which i WILL NOT post here because i look silly. 

 there was another one, where it was just a pitch-black maze. you had to feel around with your hands to see where you were. the cool thing, though, was that with a night-camera, you could laugh at/with the person that was in the maze while they went backwards, felt a wall, then started going forward again. at first, i was too scared, but when we came back again, i did it. 

 there were a lot more, and we would've taken pictures, but we forgot the camera.

          ♥ yoshi

a picture's worth a thousand words

i sure hope this marquee works, last time i tried, it didn't. to see the rest of my photos from today, click here.

if that doesn't work, copy and paste this into your browser:

http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f179/iloveyouyoshi_photo/Japan/

the guest password is "dangocurry", that should work.

♥ yoshi

yep

this picture was edited in an attempt to make the quality better and the brightness... brighter. i kinda failed... but it looks better than the original (it's from the built-in webcam on this mac). i'm pulling kyle's head by his hair in an attempt to get him into the picture (he was falling asleep). gee, i hope that made sense. zak and kyle just made a video on photo booth, too, so I'll put that on here, too.  it doesn't have any sound, and the quality is terrible, but here's kyle doing the "jellyfish" handshake.

starring zak and kyle.

originally, they had a "bigger jellyfish" hug, too, but photobucket's a meanie. :[

well, we ate ramen today.

 

                                            -yoshi

ok we totally did not know that video was going on the internet just letting you  that in fact kyle still doesn't know (tee hee).

well this post is really short because we havent done anything since yoshi is sick and all. so bye 

                     - zak

  "good bye death from soccer, and Hello death from jet lag!!!" ~qtd. by Kyle

well my quote sums it up pretty well, on top of being tired from soccer now im affected by jet lag fun right? well there isnt much for me to post except that i made it to Japan alive (for the most part, physically, not mentally) well uhm... guess this is kyle signing off!

~.:kyle:.

>:(

do i look like i'm wearing some kind of "i don't speak japanese at all so you can make fun of me all you want and i won't know what you said, even if you laugh mockingly" sign on my head? well, i hope you know i do understand japanese, especially if it's coming from a, what, 1st grade vocabulary? hmm, i suppose i understand, in your case. since i'm walking around with a blonde-haired, blue-eyed american person, i would understand assuming that i don't speak or understand japanese. however, when you're older, i would expect you to think twice before making a statement like that. so, why would so many of you mock us? no, not just point our that we are gaijin, but point out that we are larger than everyone else? and not in height. how stereotypic! it's not like i haven't seen anyone a little plump here. 

well, besides the unpleasant, zak and i are very excited to see kyle soon. after he gets here, we're (obviously) going to a ramen shop, and soon after, bowling (so i can kick his butt at not only the wii, but real life bowling, too >:) 

today, we went to parco? pache? parche? 

please forgive my inability to memorize confusing french-in-japan terms. 

anywho, zak bought some glasses from a gangster shop called octopus army. i brought a lot of money, but didn't actually buy anything. 

(i know... shocker)

well, i dont have a picture, despite the fact that i brought my camera with me. 

we went into a store having a big sale, and it was really like in the movies. imagine this tiny little store crammed with dozens and dozens of people finding their way to the next worthwhile garment-and not so considerately to the other dozens and dozens of people there. 

we should've taken a picture of that.

well, i guess i caught a bit of a cold, and my head hurts now, so i'm going to get some rest (even though it's only about 6:30).

i didn't know that they had tylenol here! 

♥ yoshi

 

oi, old chap, tea time

__after many unsuccessful attempts to type "blogspot.com", and even more failures in remembering which email i used, i finally signed into my account properly. 

__ well, er... it's been raining a lot more, i guess. the rain skipped a day, and came back today-but it left again, after we took a walk in it. it still feels kind of lonely, though; i hope kyle gets here soon. wow, i used a lot of "it"s, there. hmm.

__okay, well... yesterday, we went to jusco (which zak had a difficult time pronouncing) and wasted money on arcade games. sadly, we won close to nothing (a few hair ties from a crane game... yes, i'm amazing). i don't know about zak, but i'm trying not to spend so much money on these games. it's super difficult, but i want to save some money on buying clothes in harajuku.

__today, we didn't do anything until a few hours ago, and we practiced a tea... uh... we practiced tea. it was fun, i'll put a picture above this text (that's a new shirt!) sorry for the crappy editing, the picture was too dark and i didn't want to spend my whole life getting it perfect. same goes for the other pictures.

__oh yeah, today, we also went to moss burger. i hope there is a mister donuts around here somewhere, now that the shin-shizuoka center is closed. (tear, tear) oh, darn, i just remembered that i forgot my point card in america. (...In America! hehe... inside joke between zak, kyle and i). oh well, it was about to expire really soon, anyways.

__speaking of point cards, i found a vending machine next to the hotto motto with a point card system. i thought all hope was gone when the only point card vending machine i knew-the one next to the apartment that was, in the past, asahi-was taken away. or maybe it was demolished on the spot. or maybe it was taken away, and then demolished. hmm.

__alright, well, i think i've overused my share of "uh"s, and "..."s for today, so i guess i'll go back to doing whatever i was doing before. (???) 

_________________________________ -yoshi 

ps i bought an "i love tofu" shirt. it's sososo cute. ^^

      

okay my post probably won't be as long as yoshi's just letting you know that right now.  well i'm in bloody japan what else am i supposed to say.  anyways we have done some pretty neat things in the past few days that i've been here such as participating in a traditional tea ceremony not too many people i know can say that.  well i have to say my favorite part of japan is the food (as it is everywhere) such as the sushi, green tea, and homemade meals everyday here in the aoshima household. so thats what i have to say and guess what it was shorter than yoshis and i love all of you less than ten people that are reading this.   - zak 

EDIT: Hi All, 

Yoshi again. I guess the comment link does not work, so until I figure that out, I got a little flash widget from pyzam.com. It's not Christmas, but it's kinda cute and the only thing I could find. The widget is at the very bottom of the blog.

So, to leave a comment (and a present ^__^) Just click "Leave A Gift" at the top-left corner of the widget. Make sure to leave your name, and Merry Christmas!

settling in

   yoshi: 

 it's getting difficult to type on this japanese computer, but a lot easier to translate japanese to english. (simple phrases, of course d:) it seems like zak really likes it here, but he woke up at around 5:30. we are going to Ito Yokado (which is a word he learned!) later today. around 6am, we took a walk to the elementary school and other places around shizuoka. right now, it stopped raining, but during our walk it poured-or at least for our standards.

 well, we're going to eat at a kaitenzushi (i hope i spelt that correctly) someday soon, along with eating at conoren (ramen). of course, we'll eat there a few more times once kyle comes... 

 some words zak learned:

 『はじめまして』"hajimemashite" (pleased to meet you)

 『おせわになります』"osewaninarimasu" (thank you for taking me into your care..?)

 『おはよう』(i think...) "ohio" (good morning)

 『おやすみ』"oyasumi" (good sleep?)

 『＿＿＿やさん』"___-yasan" (___-shop)

  　it's so much fun to type in japanese on this computer!

                                                   -美花 (i'm so cool d:) ^__^

                                                             

                                      zak:

well as this is my third time to asia the only thing i can asia the on;y thing i can say for certain is that shizouku is by far the wettest and the fastest everyone is trying to get somewhere as soon as possible.  well seeing as how i`ve only been here for less than a day thats all i have to post for right now except for japan is awsome