Tokyo please

Interesting bits about Tokyo. In a nut shell Tokyo is a larger than life so much to see and many things are how do you say western like but not quite the same. many things appear in English but no one really speaks English. I can read Hiragna and Katakana and would say i have about 20 lessons of japanese under my belt and that was not enough to do anything basic. The service is in Tokyo was very good everyone was super nice and smiling all the time and when i was kind of lost someone would walk up and help ( usually a guy because the girls are pretty shy from what Akiko told me.) the strangest thing to me is that no one really pays too much attention to you just because you are foreign very few people even reacted to me being there. it's really safe from what i experience people get crazy drunk and sleep in the alleys! the food was awesome and i don't even like trying random shit but i didn't eat anything gross. Overall it is an amazing jungle that left me confused like 98% of the time. now for meaty stories !


arrival : the funny thing is the flight was super long but not that bad but it was a bit annoying to be stuck in a plane for a billion hours. when i got to tokyo i touched down in Haneda which is closer to the city so i am not sure why people even go to Narita. so i just got off of a plane , it's 4am, people are sleeping all over the airport and my hotel check in was at 2pm @_@. the air was sticky and hot and i was on the plane for 17 hrs so i was sweaty and smelly most like for about 8 hours because i had no idea what to do.  so to kill time i just started walking around my hotel area to see what was near. people it was very quiet and there was a kid just sleeping out on the bench who wasn't homeless ( japanese people just sleep wherever) i think i ended up just walking around and  finding stuff like grocery stores and restaurants. i was pretty comfortable with being there minus the fact i knew 0 people but that was what made it interesting, figuring shit out being able to read or figure out how to get places when people i dealt with new like 2 words of english and i only know about 100 words in japanese so i would have to ask them to say things over and over hoping to pick up keywords.so i think i was walking around humming the Kaneda theme for about 10 hours, in the muggy hot weather, with sweaty clothes on when finally i was able to check into my hotel.


Japanese Defense:


one of the most fun days i had in Tokyo was with a guy named RJ. He lives there with his girl and was kind enough to hang out with me one day. I pretty much walked around with RJ in place i had already seen like shibuya crossing but we stopped at some food and drink places i had never seen ( you can probably never see everything at any given shop because everything is stacked and tucked ) i got to try scallops and shrooms, something that looked like toy vomit but was good and okonomiyaki which is crazy good. at some point Rj and i chilled at this one Izakaya pub and there were some young dudes just hanging out. one of the guys kept looking over so i tried . sorry im blazing through this writing but i am not really trying to be articulate i just wanted to mark down stuff about my favorite experiences. Due to the language barrier it was hard to talk with this dude but my friend Rj can speak Japanese so he pretty much translated our conversation. there were 3 or 4 guys and they were in the military from what we learned. these guys were super cool and had never even spoken to foreigners before so it  was cool to be the first experience! we mostly talked to this one kid who had a baby and a girl and eh was just asking us questions about how we liked japan, where we were from and all of the other basic things you might want to know about people you never met. then things got funny cause the guys were drunk so they started asking us making big black penis jokes and talking to us about japanese girls which was pretty funny. at some point one of the dues was just so drunk he passed out in the bar ( they don't kick you out of the bar when you get crazy drunk in tokyo). it was cool i was trying using a bit of my japanese to talk to the one guy who had the baby and it was pretty cool. i ended up telling him im soory my japanese sucks and wish i could speak or was better prepared. then he told RJ to tell me " it's ok  cause i had a good heart".  i wish i had gave them my info but i dont think either of us could communicate with out a translator.

Japanese bullets

 asterisk * 9/28

17 lesson in

appears as if adding "ta" as in wakarimashita is implying something that has happened >>> arigatou goziamashita thank you for coming, it's appreciated that you came

i still need  to nail down spelling i hope these  are correct :/

too, excessive >> e.g. ososugimasu or takasugimasu   = it's too late and it's to much which can be negated by sen as in takasugimasen meaning it's not to much look for "sugimasu"

hmm "tai and imasu, " tai as in nomitai is wanting to e.g. wanting to drink tabetai wanting to eat then there is "nomimasu" going to drink or something then you have things like  "nani o shimasu ka " which akin to what are you going to do
 

Tokyo (digital)