Last weekend in Tokyo

Finally I can put a post up! Last weekend I met Keisuke in Tokyo on Sunday. Keisuke was an exchange student that my family hosted when I was in high school. It has been about 7 years since I have seen him! He is doing great and he is a sous chef at a sushi restaurant. Well we first met at Shinjuku station, a very large station. After we found each other, which took a moment, we had dinner. We ate konkatsu which is fried pork and rice and miso soup. It was all very delicious. After that we walked around Shinjuku for a while and he showed me where the only Krispy Kremes in all of Japan is! There is always a line going out the Krispy Kreme door. I then took the train to Chofu and he rode his motorcycle, because we didn't have an extra helmet at first. After we finally found each other there, we started looking for a jazz bar. One of his friends was listening to some live jazz at a bar in Chofu and we were going to meet up with them. Well, after thoroughly walking around Chofu we finally found the jazz bar, called Live Jazz. Like everything in Japan, it was small! We were there about 2 hours and then we went back into Tokyo. This time Keisuke bought an extra helmet and I was able to ride on the motorcycle. It was awesome to see Tokyo from the bike. Everyone on motorcycles always creep to the front of the line when you are at a red light, so its easy to pass a lot of traffic. We then at and drank a little more. We went to this restaurant where I ate raw chicken liver, heart and stomach in sesame oil with salt. It tasted a lot like peanut butter! I also ate these little eggs that looked like olives, intestines, liver, stomach, tongue and ground up chicken something or other! It was all very delicious. After that we crashed at his friends house and slept for a little bit.

The next day Keisuke had to go back to Nagoya early and I met up with my friend Em in Ginza. Ginza is the really expensive shopping district in Tokyo. It was fun but I couldn't buy anything....they had Gucci, Armani, everything! We walked around there and got Em's IPOD fixed. I think I am going to get an IPOD next month. Anyways, we then went to Jimbucho, which is the used book store district basically. I was able to buy a new book for about $3. Now that I know where that district is I will be going back there soon! We ate at Yoshinnoya which is one of my favorite restaurants here. It is fast food japanese style. We did a lot of walking that day! Then we went to Shinjuku. I love Shinjuku. It is so nice there. When yall come here that will be one of the first places we go! We had some coffee and cakes after walking around a bit and then split to go home. I love being out in Japan but it is always nice to come back to my apartment, even if it is small, its mine!

The rest of the week I have been teaching. No big news there. I teach on Sunday and I made a lesson based on Harry Potter! I think it will be fun. I will try to write more then or on Monday. Have a good one in the States and you are all in my thoughts.