Travel Journal – Monday 28/4 – 08
Now I’m really is alone again. The time is 15:35 and I’m writing a little after about two hours of reading my first material souvenir, a thousand pages long manga that I’ve been struggling to read with great success. I’ve managed to read most of the first chapter, but the only thing is that I don’t understand everything. I can puzzle the words but what they mean is an whole other thing. Besides the kanji in a manga there is hiragana so you can at least know how it’s pronounced. Thou the meaning of many things still are outside my abilities… and I am alone.
This morning was mostly about packing and preparing to leave this apartment for both girls. Nathalie was going to Nikko to work for three weeks, and after that she’ll travel around Japan. Danielle is going back to America in a few minutes1 and Miiko said yesterday that I’ll be alone in this apartment for a couple of days before any new surfers arrive. So this morning I was mostly talking and watching the girls preparing. Before they started going we went to check the internet a quickie and not to long after that Nathalie left us. This reminds me that it actually happen some things after the post I posted yesterday.
In the end of my last post I said that we were going to a show and that we were going out afterwards. Well, it didn’t happen for several reasons which one in short can sum up too that everyone let Danielle down. To begin with Danielle had been abandoned by first Nathalie in a museum that were very boring and soon after that she were abandoned by Makoto at Ueno station; so she had to find her way back home by herself. This obviously wasn’t that hard when she was in such a bad mood. She arrived here only about 5-10 minutes after I left the apartment for the sento so she started to put her make-up on and things like that. But… I was chatting and checking the internet before the Sento which took longer than expected… so when I was back was it too late to go to the show and obviously had both Aya and Vanessa bailed on her. So well… no show today either.
By the way, while chatting with my mother and Camilla they both started asking or/and implying that they thought that something was going on between us. Well, if two thinks so maybe more do so I just want to clarify something that I obviously have missed to tell you. To begin with, she’s almost 30, which may not have something to do with anything but it’s worth mentioning. What more is that she’s not the kind of girl I would fall in love with. She’s more like Camilla in her behaviour, a person you can be with as a friend without even needing to think about the problems of sexuality which often is in the air when you are with people of the opposite gender. One other thing that speak against it is that actually don’t have much in common with her other than some of our way of thinking but mostly we are too different.
When there was no show we all were invited to taste of Miiko’s curry with rice. Danielle refused due to her bad mood and that she didn’t like curry, I and Nathalie thou accepted. This decision I won’t ever regret, cause this was most likely the greatest curry I’ve tasted, and as if this weren’t enough… it was free! I mean what can possibly be better other than get free fantastic food for free? “I can’t think of anything”. While we ate and talked to Miiko I tried to use my Japanese as much as possible and at the same time try to translate everything Miiko said for Nathalie. This worked out pretty well and it was fun too. Jim called Miiko during this dinner and he wanted to talk to me or Danielle, we had sent a mail to Aya about hanging out anyway. He said that they were at the 300-yen-bar so if we wanted to come we could just come there. But due to the fact that Danielle was going to be on the airplane today she didn’t want to have a hangover so we didn’t go and watched a movie instead.
Other than this it didn’t happen especially much yesterday. I started to write on a new Nianze document when both girls had went to bed. This document is a document with ideas and notes mostly that I’ve organized very well. It’s like a document prepared for ideas that may pop up while I watch series or just are writing things. And I think that I will get many ideas from reading the manga I just bought. It seems to have many good ideas I may adopt, other than this I’m watching series and things like that so I will probably have much time to create some new things. I can even now say that I’m changing the Nianze history quite a lot, not that anything have been determined yet, but soon enough. And it’s not small changes we talk about, rather radical and big changes even, which may confuse old players quite a lot.
Well, to get back to today I must say that it was actually a little bit sad to have to say good bye to Nathalie and Danielle. Nathalie may not have been around too much but she was really fun and always smiled and laughed mysteriously to everything. She claimed that she was laughing with us, when me and Danielle argued but I think she was laughing at us, because we sometimes sounded like an old couple, or like PB and I sound like when we are arguing. I don’t think many have the experience of that, and those who do may have a very vague memory of it anyway. Well, it have been really fun to hang out with Danielle even thou we have argued a lot, but it wasn’t really argue, it was more… speaking back and forth or something.
It felt really weird to say good bye to her at Ueno station2 and when she was gone and I started walking away it felt really weird. I mean, I was now controlling everything completely on my own again and I’ve gotten used to decide what to do together with someone else. I mean, I haven’t really done anything completely by my self since I got here. The first day I spent here resting, then I was with Lucien, and directly he left I started to hang around with Danielle. Now I’m alone again so well, we’ll see what happens now.
After leaving Danielle I roamed around Ueno for a while3, I was very close to buying a present for someone back home, due to the fact that I saw it for about 3000-yen cheaper than I’ve seen it before. But I stopped myself in time, in other words… I got stingy again, so after a while I went back to Kita-Urawa to eat and to think over the new situation a little. I bought some noodles and the big manga I told you about. It isn’t Shonen Jump but about the same size, a little bigger, and a little cheaper. Well, and now we are here again, I’m writing this and taking a break. This journal will soon be forty pages long and I’ve been here for 2/3 of the time so I’ll soon be home and I still have pretty much money left. I’m not sure if I will add anything else today, but I may do it before I go to the internet place to post this and do some other things.
This is the only things I’ve scheduled for this week;
– Go to the Ghibli Museum
– Buy souvenirs and presents plus candy
– Go out with Jim and Ayaha on Tuesday
– Explore some of the districts I’ve not been too as well as the parks I’ve not been to
– Buy the stuff WANO and other people wants me to buy
In other words, waste money…
Best regards,
Herid Fel
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