An American's Japanese Life III

May 17, 2015

      Today was the start one week marking of how long I have been in Japan thus far. After waking up several mornings and roaming it's streets, I am starting to feel at home here. Its strange. I thought that it would have taken longer for me to get over such a huge difference, But truly I love it here and start to feel more and more at home as the days pass by. I have made friends with such amazing people in such a short amount of time. Been friends for a week with these people but it feels like we knew each other for a whole life time. I am picking up on a little bit of Japanese, It seems to be increases the longer I stay. I can definitely see myself living here. The cities are really clean and it is unbelievably quiet. Plus the cost of various goods cost less in those sold in America
      Today we met up with some buddies to go watch a Baseball Game in the Tokyo Dome. I first intention was not to go because I did not travel to Japan to watch America's Pass Time. I went anyways to see if there were some differences between how Japanese play in comparison to the America sport. The Japanese love baseball to the same degree that Americans do. The stadium was so packed out that they had people actually standing along the back wall on chair in order to see. The crowd would chant at every moment they got. The only difference that was noticeable between that two was, of coarse, the Vendors. Never have I eaten octopus at a Baseball game before. It was strange, but like I said "Hey, I'm in Japan". Don't expect to ordinary is the motto of this trip.
       After the game, our buddies took us on another Japanese excursion to Shinjuku. By this time, I was getting used to going to Shibuya and wanted something else. Shinjuku is not as populated as Shibuya, but it still has a lot of people. Consider Shinjuku the shopping district of Japan. We went shopping and I brought so much stuff. It was things you couldn't buy in America, so I had to. It was the place for the tourist to get all their gifts from. We spent quite a bit of time, and money, there with our buddies until the hunger started to set in after a day of long walking. We ended our day with something that was not traditional Japanese. we ate an All-you-can-eat Italian buffet. Why you may ask? Because we were hungry and it was food. Plus, its what our buddies wanted.
      The time came for our farewells for the day. After a day of shopping, eating, and picture taking, we had to get back to our side of time and town and they had to get to theirs.