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For my birthday I went to Tokyo for the weekend, actually for Saturday night, Sunday, and Monday afternoon. It was a lot of fun. I went mainly for two things: 1) to meet some friends from California and 2) to pick up some English books from Jimbocho. The two friends that I went out to visit I have never met before, except for through an online chatroom I am in with my other old friends from California, so this was going to be the first time to meet them both. They were a lot of fun. We ended up just walking around town almost the entire time and talking to strangers. I never did that before! Even if I seem loud and energetic in person, I am also a very shy and self-conscious person! As for the books…well I couldn’t find any English books surprisingly there, even though last time I was in Jimbocho there was quite a selection in one of the middle-sized used bookstores. I guess because the Fall semester recently started that all of the English books were bought up by the local Waseda students. I didn’t leave empty handed however! I wound up bringing home onto the plane with me a bunch of notebooks and small books of Tanizaki Junichiro for my later studies (once I can read Japanese!). Going around town there has made me reconsider my talents, especially when I browsed through a local art shop. For one thing, I really regret not having bought a fancy book cover for my small books!  

I just returned from another really wonderful weekend trip with my parents. This time we went to Osaka. I was especially excited for this trip because I love Osaka! Last time I went I had so much fun, and this time I had just as much! I was so happy to be able to share the places I love to visit with my parents while they were here. We spent most of our time on the Shinsaibashi, my parents were amazed by how big it was and we bought so much stuff. We visited lost of sports stores, because my parents love golf and I'm going to start running this month.
We also spent some time in Dotonburi! Dotonburi is one of my favorite places in the world to visit. There are so many cool things to see and so many yummy things to eat. It's paradise! We ate some really yummy food, and of course we tried takoyaki and okonomiyaki. We took a lot of pictures, we tried to take one in front of the Glico man but you can't see him.



I had to leave them in Osaka yesterday evening, and they'll fly home at around 4:30 today. I'm so sad their trip is over and they have to go home, but I'm so happy they could come!