2/1/09
Watanabe House, Tokyo

Today I walked through Yoyogi park, Meiji Jingu, and visited the Tocho and saw Fuji. After a long trip plagued by rocky communication, Nishiyama dropped me off with Mr. Watanabe. I'm staying at this house either temporarily for a week, or for the whole month. Not sure yet. This family is older, both kids are quite grown up.

1/31/09
Olympic Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo

Today the Nakatani family drove me down to Nagoya station to see me off on the Shinkansen. I'm gonna miss them a lot.

Nishiyama picked me up at Tokyo station and took me here to the OMYC, where they're holding an overnight training event for a bunch of college mates. I had some time in the evening, so I walked past Meiji Jingu to Harajuku and looked around for a bit. On the way, I all but stumbled into the Cirque du Soleis Corteo tent set up in the park. Not every day that randomly happens to me.

After ten, everyone was done with their meetings and they invited me to hang out with them for a bit. They're still partying, I hope they get some sleep eventually.