Manga Cafe + Other things

Okay, so Friday night I went out with Alex to see his friend play at a little studio in Okigubo. Took some pictures, went partially deaf, y'know, all that fun stuff.



Afterwards, we all went down the road to a little tomato ramen shop and has some REALLY good food.


I burned my tongue on it because I didn't want to wait any longer to eat it D: hahaha. We stayed and chatted for a while before we decided to start heading back. At this point it was late enough we figured we wouldn't be making it home before last train, but we planned on getting to one of the more populated night life scenes we were used to. This would have been a brilliant plan had we not missed the train LEAVING Okigubo. I guess one should always remember to check the last time at the station you're at before assuming it's like all the other ones hahaha.

We wandered in search of a cheap way home and gave up shortly after, taking a moment to wander around the area in search of a 24 hour place that was not food related seeing as we had just eaten dinner.

Our search provided us with a manga cafe (comic and internet cafe) that was REALLY cheap for the overnight (five hour) price at 880yen a person. So essentially we spent about 9USD or so for a safe place to sit/crash until the trains started up again.


We got home around 7 am and crashed (again) for a while. It was kinda fun though. I'm glad I got to experience a manga cafe hahah~!


Saturday night I went to the local public bath with Lisa and some of the other girls in the dorm. I was a little nervous at first--after all, it IS a public bath. The genders are not mixed at this one, but still, I'm not used to sitting around, naked with strangers. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be though. And to be honest, when we left, I felt the cleanest I have felt in a while! It was relaxing and kind of purifying in a way.

Today.... It is snowing. At first I thought it was just going to snow and melt, but now I can see that it is STICKING D: I cry at this. I really do despise snow, it's not my friend at all. I came here to stay away from the evil white fluffy wet stuff. Dammit D: *sighhh!*

I'll have to update with snow photos in a bit... my card reader is made of fail and frequently refuses to read cards D: WTF *eats it* I think it's my computer demanding that I actually restart it, but I don't wanna. Maybe later.

So yeah....

This is something I did today in my art class. I didn't finish it, if it's not obvious, but it's pretty close.

On another random note though.... I have been playing WoW again. Mostly when I have 'free' time and within the next day I should finalllllyyy be at level 40~ This makes me super happy haha. I think it's kind of something that keeps me sane here--I love it here, but man, sometimes you just need to kill things hahaha.