NEW CAMERA

Yesterday was my pay day, so to celebrate I bought myself a brand new camera. I desperately needed one and Japan is the perfect place to buy nice electronics for a nice price. My host mom and I made our way to Bic Camera in Ikebukuro to make my purchase. 2 weeks ago we went shopping there so I could get a couple little things. We took a few minutes to look at the cameras and get an idea for prices. I picked out a really nice FujiFilm camera that was only like $260. We took a pamphlet home with us for future reference. When we went back yesterday the price of the camera had gone up to $310, which seemed a little too much for me so I had already started looking at other cameras for cheeper, but my host mom wasn't so ready to give up on my first choice.
She asked a sales person for assistance and asked why the camera was so expensive now. She explained to me that his answer was that on the weekends it:s cheeper and during the week it:s more expensive. she said to him "that's unbelievable! i can:t believe its so expensive" and so on. the sales clerk said "please wait a moment, I will go ask about it" and when he came back he announced that i would be able to purchace the camera for $260! I'm so lucky to have a Japanese Host mom from Osaka, where the people are known to be persistant barganers. yay!
check it out here:
http://fujifilm.jp/personal/digitalcamera/finepixf100fd/design002.html
It's a 12megapixles, 5x optical zoom whith a huge LCD screen, large menu and it is really small.

So with that being said, I have new pictures up on Flickr from my new camera, follow the link from the previous post. I'll probably be taking more pictures now that I'm not embarassed of pulling out a really old and broken camera that takes forever to load and bla bla bla.

anyway, things are going well, I'm feeling great and I'm really looking forward to this month. I have a lot of interesting plans coming up. The first one being my japanese wood cut class. I get to go observe for 50 minutes and if I like it I can sign up. My host mom found the teacher's website and he looks really awesome. I looked him up on wikipedia and found out he's the president of the Japan Print Society and teaches at a really famous art school here in Tokyo. I'm pumped.
here's another link
http://www.itowtakumi.com/en/index.html

Also, this is a side note, but I'm watching a really funny show on TV with my host mom right now about an aspiring business man who gets the help from ganesh on his quest for success. http://www.ytv.co.jp/yumezou/index.html

That's all for now!
ja ne

~Jess