It's been forever, I know.
Here is a photo update on the past several weeks!
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| The weather has been beautiful and I have started going on jog/walks every once in a while down by the sea wall! |
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| I rearranged my room and I think it's going to stay this way for a while! I'm really proud of it and love my little home! |
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| This is Sally! She is one of my closest friends here in Japan! We have Mondays off together and we like to go on fun outings! We went shopping in Harajuku and found these awesome tanks that say "Jesus is my rock and that's how I roll." So naturally, we both bought them and now we can match! |
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| Had another fun night at Mama Keikos! We made gyoza!!! |
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| I dropped my wallet somewhere on the way home from work and didn't realize it was missing until the next morning!! But don't worry, someone turned it in to the police at the train station and I got it back with everything in it (ALL of my important stuff!!!!!) within a day!!!! I LOVE JAPAN! |
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| For Adam's birthday, we went down to the Sea Wall at night and set off a bunch of fireworks!!!! It's legal in Japan and they sell them all over the place! |
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| For Kye's birthday, we went to a breakfast buffet before work! It was oishi!! |
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| Went to a dance show in Roppongi! There were a few drag queens in the show and they were beautiful! It was nearly impossible to tell!!! The stage was build in sections and all on hydraulics so it changed levels throughout each scene. It was really quite amazing!!! So much fun! And we got a picture with the cast afterward! |
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| One of my old dance friends in touring with Taylor Swift! The RED Tour had one performance in Tokyo and I was able to go see her perform!!!! The show was incredible and it was such a joy to watch her on stage! I held up this sign for her! WIO means "work it out." Our dance studio we danced at together had a cheer that had "WIO" in it! |
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| I brought my friend Eric with me to the show! It was about an hour train ride away from home so I didn't want to go alone! We had such a fun time together! |
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| There were some other Disney friends that went to the concert who knew one of the dancers as well! So we met up afterwards! |
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| We met our friends back at the hotel the cast was staying in and we got to meet and hangout with most of the dancers in the show! They were all so much fun and it was an honor to meet such talented performers! |
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| I ended up staying with my friend overnight because I didn't have work the next morning. We had breakfast at the hotel and this was our stunning view from the 45th floor!!! Roppongi! With a perfect view of the Toyko Tower! |
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| I took Clarice and two of her cast members out the next day and showed them around Harajuku and Shibuya! Some Taylor fans recognized them and asked for their autographs! They asked for mine too but I told them I wasn't in the show! Wish I were though! |
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| We stumbled upon a fantastic and inexpensive Japanese restaurant in Shibuya and I was brave enough to order this without really knowing what most of it was. Little did I know that under the slabs of fish were big scoops of wasabi. Not a very fun surprise. |
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| Yesterday was my 22nd birthday!!! The cast all got a few bites of this amazing Baskin Robins cake!!! I ate most of the slice made of Popping Shower! SO GOOD. |
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| A couple of the fans were wearing these stickers in the audience!!! It was so sweet! |
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| A lot of fans made these collages and posted them on my Chan page! These are a few of my favs! |
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| So nice of them to put all of their time and effort into theses! Each one of them made me smile! |
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| My family sent this lovely birthday package full of treats! (The Swedish Fish were actually from Sally!) I love American snacks and Epsom Salt<3 |
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| After work, we had a get-together in Sally's room. It was a potluck movie night and we watched one of my favorite movies, "Waiting for Guffman." If you haven't heard of it or seen it, check it out! We ate so much delicious food!!! YUM! |
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| This was my gift from the cast (put together by Sally of course!). You all remember from my previous post about Harajuku that I adore anything with poorly translated Engligh...hence the backpack! "Sweetly Lovetoxic Fortune Cute!" I also adore all of the socks sold all around Japan! And then my personal favorite part of the gift, the "I <3 KALE" pj set!!! I saw with before with Sally and I wanted it so bad. I really do love Kale :) |
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| I had a wonderful 22nd birthday thanks to my lovely friends and family!!! I was also pretty jazzed to have a theme song this year that I got to see performed live!!!! AKA: "22" by Taylor Swift! It was stuck in my head all day! |
So that's basically what's been going on lately! Same old full time work schedule with a day or two here and there to relax or explore! It's been raining pretty hard for the past few days, but eventually it's going to clear up and then continue to turn into the hot and humid summer we are all anticipating! Bring on the multiple showers, sweat towels, and electrolyte replacement drinks!!!!!
