Quick update

Today is the fall equinox and is therefor a day off for most Japanese people. Including me! So today my host family and I are going shopping in Saitama in a few minutes. We just got done watching the red sox game and I have the urge to give you a quick update.

So yesterday was my first day of work. I had to make the treck from my house near Hoya station to Shibuya. THe journey took about an hour and a half. THe train from Hoya to Ikebukuro was a little crowded but compared to what it felt like to be walking through Ikebukuro station to the Yamanote line track was much worse. You have to be situated in the right flow line of people in order to make it smoothly to your destination. the ride from ikebukuro to shibuya was pretty intense. I didn't have anything to hold on to and I had my LEX bag, umbrella and travel mug of mate and myself smushed up against like 5 people. you have to have very skilled ballence in your feet. otherwise you're screwed.

We had a workshop yesterday which meant all the hippo family club leaders from around tokyo (and afar) show up the first monday of the month to listen to speaches, talk with one another and enjoy large scale hippo activities. Of course, since I:m the new intern I had to stand infront of like 200 people (or more) and introduce myself with my poor japanese. it was really intense.

we had lunch in the yoyogi olympic center (where the workshop was) which was really fun. During lunch I spoted the most beautiful green bird outside a window. I tried looking up what it could have been on the internet and I've decided that it was a green conure that either escaped from it's owner or something. It had a beak like Momo's so it was definitely part of the parrot family but it had a very slender and long , blue tail and a fairly large wing span. I was so supprised when i saw it!
I went back to the office and poked around my desk for half an hour before heading home. (my new rain shoes gave me TERRIBLE blisters) My host parents weren't planning to be home until late so I had to take care of my own dinner and entertain myself for the night. I went to the local soba shop for dinner before heading out to the neighboring train station. They have a pretty nice shopping center there and although I didn't buy anything, it was nice just to walk around and look at stuff. I got home about an hour before my host parents.

anyway, it:s time to go shopping

ja ne

jess