Golden Week so far has been tons of fun. For those of you who don't know, Golden Week is the end of April/beginning of May, when a bunch of national holidays happen to fall right in a row. It's not exactly a week's worth, but close enough that the government just decided to give everybody the whole week off. (I love Japan!!)
Even though the holidays didn't officially start until Tuesday, IUC was nice enough to give us the whole week off--yaaayy!! So, I've been taking full advantage of the break--not really doing anything special, just lots of hanging out and stuff--going out for yakiniku, watching movies, that sort of thing.
Sunday afternoon I spent with Molly and Misa. We went over to Dakanyama, which is an area just outside Shibuya, with lots of shops and boutiques and stuff. FUN! XD And after, we stopped in Yokohama eki for dinner at the soup curry place.
Tuesday, Jonah (Yalie/with me at HIF) came to visit. He'd just finished up a semester at KCJS and is in Tokyo for a few days before going back to the States, so we met up in Yokohama for a nice lunch in Chinatown, and then walked around for a while. It was lots of fun, we went over to Motomachi, and then through lots of areas of Yamate that I hadn't been in yet. Yamate is the old mansion district above Motomachi, where the rich foreigners lived--and where rich people still live--so the houses were amazing. 
It feels very not like Japan. There's also an "Italianate Garden" that we walked through, which was absolutely gorgeous. 
It was really odd to be standing in the middle of all of this Western-feeling architecture, and greenery, and look out over the rest of Yokohama. 
Not that I don't love Yokohama, but...it just looks different from up there.
Then we went over to the Minato Mirai area, and walked over to Aka Renga just around sunset. The flowers from last time were all gone, but the view was just fantastic. 
Yappari, Yokohama = <3
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Also, this week's PV! Sorry, but I just couldn't resist--it's the new News song, "Summer Time."
Seasonally appropriate, and lots of fun to watch.
These boys just thrill my fangirl heart... ^_^
The adventures of a former North Carolinian and recovering Yalie, loose in Japan for the first time.
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- ☆sarita☆
- From a former North Carolinian and recovering Yalie: Currently living and working in the big city of Tokyo, while furthering an ever-growing obsession with Japanese pop-culture.
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It isa Summertime! News Summertime is fun! Finally what does PV stand for? I'm sure the V part is Video but the P part escapes me.
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while the rest of the world calls it a music video (MV) Japan once again bucks the trend and common english, and has opted for the abbreviation PV, or "Promotional Video."
the foreigners neighborhood kind of reminds me of some mix between the scenes from the neighborhood around the grandpa's workshop in "whisper of the heart" and the house on the hill in Noein (though I know that's set somewhere else technically). The photos are so pretty! i guess this would be the type of place where 'Grand Marnier' would live? well, love you and write you later.
also. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for editing my paper. it is horrible for me to impose on your break, but you are a really great friend. thanks for the help!
I just started Liar Game with a friend! its so funny! i mean i'm bad, but i'm not that bad (also, i don't wear that much pink at the same time which makes me better somehow)... it's pretty ridiculous but funny too... :)
i kept thinking that with all that money they could buy one of these fancy houses and live there... :) but i think i have my head a little TOO in the clouds some days... my philosophy exam is calling me (i haven't touched it..)
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