recaprecaprecap

there’s something about being in constant transit that makes me feel like there is never an end destination. but there is. and its home even if its half a world away.

I’ll try my best to recap from where I last left, which was a mere five days ago, but which really feels like an entire month.

HIROSHIMA / KYOTO trip gets an individual post because it was just that awesome! :) look out for that post sooooon.

september 7 

• got my けたいでんわ! (cell phone)
• had adventures learning how the JR lines work…and that going from Shin-Yokohama to Yokohama requires a transfer at Higashi-Kanagawa station [this was a lesson learned after two failed attempts at predicting which train to catch]
• realized its a small world after all [backstory: met my summer roommate’s best friend who is also studying abroad at the same university (at the Shirokane/Tokyo campus!)]
• met some tiiight international students and feasted on some amazing food, in our meet-and-greet partay!
• made friends with another アメリカのがいじん!!! Spencer, from Hope University in Michigan, is a pretty tight dude and he even tagged along with us in our journey to get cell phones!
• Yokohama exploring
• Starbuckings…like I always do!

september 8 

• Helping two friends get the LAST TWO cell phones at Shin-Yokohama! (oh, how we loathe the bureaucracy that is がいじん cell phone purchasing in Japan)
• more exploring of Shin-Yokohama…the overall conclusion: it’s very quaint, it’s very salaryman populated, and the JR station is HUGE!!!
• headed back to Yokohama and got my FIRST CELL PHONE CHAIN!!!
• explored inside the cute shops of Yokohama’s JOINUS! prettyprettypretty things galore
• saw Auntie Carmen again! :) yay. she’s been my mom-away-from-mom in Japan.