28 September 2005

Right. Made it.

The airlines lost my luggage and I had to wear the same dress and (horror of horrors!) same shoes for 2 days.
I picked up some food poisoning along the way and spent the first 36 hours either in bed or getting too familiar with the strange Japanese toilets.
Phone company and internet provider apparently didn’t talk to each other and we still as yet have the internet at home. Hopefully by Thursday evening.

All better now,however!  Have a few changes of undies and about 20 pairs of shoes.

As I had prepared myself for the worst...our little flat isn’t so bad. While I feverishly slept, Stephen had put up rope light and made our place look like ours. I will send pictures when we get internet at the flat.

Last Friday was a Holiday-to celebrate the arrival of Autumn. Stephen and I set out for Roppongi: http://www.infocreate.co.jp/hometown/roppongi/roppon-e.html
On the way back home (MY that sounds weird) we jumped off the train at random to explore a tiny little town. We had lunch at an adorable noodle place -where you put your money into a vending machine,make your selection and a ticket emerges--which you give to the cook...the only problem was that the selections were in Japanese (no pictures)...so we weren’t really sure what we were getting.  **please refer to previous entry where I state our restaurant ordering abilities are limited to beer**  Nevertheless, had a delightful meal paired with Japanese beer!

Saturday we went to Shibuya and met up with Katayama-san. http://www.city.shibuya.tokyo.jp/eng/strolling.html  A delightful,vibrant city filled with see and be-seen young people.  We had a lovely lunch at a restaurant where you kneel at the table.  After much walking and window shopping, Katayama took us to a wonderful restaurant for a few dinner nibbles and much sake.  And after much more sake...went and did karaoke...WHERE...Smele-san monopolized the microphone and song selections...Seriously! I have the video to prove it- and will post it here later!

Sunday we went to Ginza. http://www.ginza.jp/ Right...about as much English as we saw as well.  A very chic area with Chanel,YSL, Prada...We finally found an Italian restaurant that had a menue in English where we had lunch.

And now...Stephen is at work.  I had an interview on Monday and Tuesday...hopefully I will attain gainful employment soon...there are SO many great shoes here to buy!!

Mata’nee
-rebekah

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