I found myself in Japan

Tokyo Metropolitan Office

Meeting chamber

Meiji Shrine

Are they in Japan, too!?!?

Super excited about this cotton candy.

JackRose...

"Why Krispy Kreme in Japan?"- Inaba Sensei. Why not?

JackRose...

Famous Shibuya crossing at night

Kamau is happy with H&M

Before the "water" exploded.

Morning of the 15th surprisingly I got out of bed relatively early and made it to breakfast on time. I got the same Bacon, Egg, and Toast that I did every morning. The weather was supposedly going to be the coldest of all the days we were there, however I wasn’t buying it so I wanted to get away with just wearing a T-shirt and my usual green jacket. Unfortunately Inaba Sensei and Ms. Erica had me wear an extra sweater underneath the jacket.

That morning we were going to the Tokyo Metropolitan Building. We rode the subway as we did everyday to the closest station and walked the rest of our way there. Once we arrived at the building, two women who were to be our tour guides greeted us. We went around the building and saw the meeting chambers where all the officials of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area meet (more frequently now due to Tokyo Olympics 2020). After that we walked around the building and saw some art that looked similar to a rainbow but it had part of the arc missing and the tour guides said that we complete the rainbow with our feelings. With the tour finally over we crawled back to the safety that was the subway lines.

Our next destination was the Meiji Shrine, which was the main shrine of the Emperor’s family. There we had to wash our hands with freezing water and walk around in the already freezing weather. Sarah’s and my hands were soaking wet and absolutely frozen. I could hardly feel them. After the Shrine the boys and girls split up into two groups and parted ways. We boys met with Kento, Maiki and Michael and went around Harajuku shopping. I even found a shop called, “JackRose,” it was great. Too bad that I didn’t want to buy anything there. We looked at quite a few stores with Kamau being the only person to buy anything, and Kampbell regretting not buying anything. Personally every store we walked in I found everything they had to be out of my price range. For lunch we went to a small shop right on the main road and I tried cooked cow tongue, but I didn’t really enjoy it. We walked down the main street a bit more seeing a few more shops we walked in.

We finally separated from Maiki, Kento, and Michael and met up with the girls again at Uniqlo. I ended up buying two shirts and a jacket. After Uniqlo, we separated again with the guys going to Krispy Kreme donuts. I ate six donuts in 5 minutes and it was great. I didn’t eat much for lunch so that woke me up. After the donuts I was pretty darn thirsty, so that drove me to go to a vending machine and get some water. I cannot read any Japanese so Kamau warned me that I might have gotten sparkling water. Spoilers, I did. So after I put the money in and the bottle dropped everyone crowded around me to see if it was, but being impatient and thirsty I opened the bottle and it exploded and got on everyone. I trusted Hans when he said it probably wasn’t.

Then we went to H&M to go shopping I bought two hats, and because of that days experience with freezing hands, some gloves too. After that we decided that we would meet the girls at a café. While we were waiting I decided to try on my new jacket. Surprise, it’s too small. However it was all right because we were just down the road from it, so Hans, Kampbell, and I walked over to Uniqlo and talked to a lady about exchanging my jacket. Apparently, I had bought a women’s jacket and that's why it was too small! So I went up got a normal men’s jacket and went over to another lady. She too was confused as to why I had bought a women’s jacket. (It’s because I can’t ready Japanese). Afterwards everyone laughed as we went to meet with the girls. We made our way back to the hotel via subway and because we were all pretty tired we had to be in our rooms by 9.

Today was so tiring, “mendoksai.”