It’s Saturday, and the beginning of a five day weekend. Yes. five.
As I leave Japan in three weeks (!) things like goodbyes are starting to appear. Whether it’s a friend or a favored food place, I’ve started to gauge the likelihood of another encounter before I go.
Today’s trip finds me headed to kansai for one meeting I know won’t happen again for a while. more visit to my homestay family from college. I go bearing what might be my weirdest “hey what’s up” present yet, baumkuchen and fish eggs.
Since I’ve been insanely busy and tired from work, I’m coughing up money for the bullet train over the night bus. (I would like to state for the record that I purchased my shinkansen ticket unassisted, from the ticket machine.) I’m on a nozomi, the fastest kind! For those who can read Japanese, you can see that from tokyo to kyoto, there’s a stop at shin yokohama, and one at nagoya. Two hours and fifteen minutes. California, pleaaase catch up before I die.
