Picking up chicks.

Today makes me laugh. I opted not to go to Dennys and instead ate some Japanese breakfast food (pretty damn tasty) and then went to the konbini. konbini is the japanese word for convience store, and they are everywhere. I bought a liter of apple juice and a kitkat bar and went and sat in the park. I started to drink the apple juice and wonder what I want to do today, when along comes a decent looking girl and sits on the next bench over. I toke no real notice of this for some time, as I was pretty wrapped up in my apple juice. not really thinking of anything, I kinda look over and see a bunch of pidgeons. I ask the girl in japanese, what the japanese word for that kind of bird it. She answers, and I reach into my bag to get my notebook and write it down. She asks me if i am an exchange student, I say yes, yaddayadda, the usual questions. she too was an exchange student in highschool, whe went to Brisbane. Anyway, we just talked for some time, and she moves to the same bench as me, and we keep talking. A little while later, her phone rings, and she says she is going to meet a friend of hers, and asks if I would like to come along. Of course, I say yes, and off we go. We walked to her house, where we mounted some junkie japanese bikes and rode off. we rode through several very cool pretty parks, ate at a sushi-go-round that was actually really really damn good, and much cheaper than anything in the states, and rode some more, we found quite possibly the coolest playground ever. then we met Joji, who is a middle school friend of hers, and he is super cool. They are both college students, she is 22, and i think he is 23. We explored the campus of a japanese university (Hitosubashi university) and that was fun, then we had Taiyaki, which are tasty. They are traditionally sweet bean paste baked into waffle tasty like things shaped like fish. They are hella tasty. Then he left Joji, and Mikiko and I rode back. We rode past some super cool historically things very close to where we live (we live fairly near each other) and there I was thinking that that place was boring. I took a bunch of pictures, and that "ask a giraffe" one. It is a restaurant/cafe type place, but pricy so we didnt eat there. Then we rode home.
So, the best way to meet chicks is to ask them what a word is in their native language. Or at least that worked for me. Once.
Dash- I enjoyed Wrong about Japan enough, but it was way to rushed, and I wish he has talked a lot more about the cultural aspects like he did with Totaro. Oh yeah, the Ghibli museum is pretty close to my house. Send me your current flight stuff, and I will see if i can get tickets.

Peter