Friday, April 22, 2005

lost in translation

I'l keep this post short since I'm going out later tonight with Dimitris. We don't have classes on Fridays, so it's a 3-day weekend every week!

So like I said before, my bike ride is only about 30 minutes long, but that's when I know where I'm going. I tried to go home late at night the other day, and I was totally lost. Instead of half an hour, it took me an hour and a half. All the streets started to look the same, and I even resorted to asking strangers for directions. See, I know enough Japanese to ask for directions, but sometimes when they give me the directions, I can't really understand them. So this one guy gave me wrong directions - I swear he did, I knew what was saying that time. Then I ended up going the wrong direction for like 20 minutes before I asked some other people, and they told me I was way off.

People are generally nice to foreigners here. Even though the guy pointed me in the wrong direction, he had good intentions. But hey I was never really lost, I just had the opportunity to explore the city more.

Here are some random pictures:


Now this is a pimp ride.


For sure.


From my bike.


The gate to a shrine.


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I'll let you know about the weekend on Monday. . .

4 comments:

Raghav said...

Nice ride player

Anonymous said...

That is one crazy car/van!!! Xanga's so much easier. =( Why did you have to switch? *whine, pout*

Anonymous said...

um, pink previa? you rule.

Anonymous said...

Hey Darwin. cool site/pix. Looks like its fun there :) go easy on the sake haha