i have a stomach ache

So its been about a week since my last post...and I believe that I left off saying that I had a presentation in my lab...

well... i origonally wrote an entire post recalling the events that transpired that night.. but i have decided that I will not post it. If you "just gotta know!!!1!1!!" all the details of that night, let me know and I'll email you a copy of it. But for all those content with just knowing the short version, I will not go into detail here...

My post doc told me I had a presentation. He told me short notice. I had a week to make a presentation. I did not know what exactly a "presentation" consisted of...at ALL. I asked him for help. Repeadily. He started avoiding me. In the end, I made a horrible excuse for a presentation. What else was I suposed to do? I presented. It was awful. I made a fool of my self infront of my lab group. The post doc got upset and started lecturing me in front of everyone about how bad my presentation was, and how I needed to study more on my topic and other things. I knew before hand that he would do this. I had suspected that he had just set me up for failure.

I told him off in front of the lab. And then I went to my professor's office explained the situation and quit. My professor understood completely and said that he had not realized the situation I had been in for the past few months (ie doing way too much work and having to stay in the lab 8+ hours a day...everyday)

He offered to put me in a new lab with better hours. I think I will do this...next quarter. I desperatly need a break, and a chance to focus on my actual classes (which I was close to failing at the time). I think I'll be ok in my japanese classes...probably not As though... its too late for getting As. I think I'm barely going to be able to bring them up to Bs...if that.. Like I said before...lab consumed almost every waking moment before.

The day after I quit I was really confused. Did I just destroy my only good reason for being in Japan? What should I be doing now? I felt SO idle...

but since then,　things have gotten alot better. I had time to...enjoy myself... I'm finding myself once again caring about learning Japanese and making friends... I'm finding that after only 7 hours of sleep I'm completly refreshed (before I could sleep 9 and still be tired). A side note.. but after being with the lab kids who never sleep, I feel stupid saying "ONLY 7 hours of sleep and I'm not tired!!!" in my lab this is twice the amount of their daily sleep

So in the past week I've been reading more... playing my guitar again... enjoying the sunshine outside.

I don't have internet in my room atm, so the only time I can check emails and such is at the International Student Center.

In other news... it snowed the other day! It was fun! I went outside and played ..a little.. there wasnt TOO much snow..and none of my friends were as amazed by the snow as I was and therefore wouldn't play with me :[

I don't have much else to say. I have a headache and stomach ache right now... I started feeling not so great around yesterday... hopefully I'm not getting sick...

I also just bought my plane ticket to come home for a few weeks in March. I know it seems dumb that I'm coming home AGAIN... BUT in my defense. I've travelled Japan..twice... I'm going to korea in a few weeks, and then I'm going up north for a field study class for about a week.

After that I had litterally a month off school. I don't have the money to travel in Japan. I can't even afford to go to Tokyo more than once a week (about 30 dollars worth of trains round trip plus how ever much money it takes to actually have FUN in tokyo..). Theres nothing to do in my college town. All my friends here at Tsukuba Univ are graduating at the end of Feb. And my fellow californian friends ...well, one will go spend the month with his family (has uncles and aunts and cousins in Japan) and the other will play video games all month. They too don't have money to travel and would rather sit inside than do anything...
And most importantly...my Mommy is paying for my ticket..so its free! :D

I'll be home from March 16th -April 9th. Last time I came home I was insanely busy...but... this time I just plan to relax. So if you want to do something, let me know. I'm not going to try to seek out everyone to plan haning out. If you wanna hang out, its up to you :p

Since I have to use the public comp, I have no way of putting up photos for the time being... but i will slove this problem soon!

Well I need to go to the store and buy food. And my head is killing me. AND I have nothing else to say.

thanks again for reading! Sorry if it was boring =/

Liza

Then is the new now

So this might be a short post. I don't have too much to say. Since Anthony left and I started school again not much has happened..

Mayumi ->

The week after Anthony left I went to a temple with my friend Mayumi to celebrate new years. It was fun...There were alot of people...and alot of foriengers..and everyone talked to me like I was a tourist...which is very condesending when I approach them in Japanese first.. Some guy was trying to get me to buy something, he was talking in english and saying things like "traditional japanese, very very cheap, all japanese people have this so you should buy it blah blah" (in broken english of course) After failing at tring to ignore him, I told him off in Japanese. He was very startled and left me alone. And by told him off, I told him it was WAY overpriced and that I didnt need it.

Here's a statue of buddah....

Here's a giant shoe...

Since then school has started....I'm taking 6 Japanese classes: Kanji, Reading, writting, speaking, listening, and grammer. I'm also taking ONE biology class... Its a very intense class..but only becuase I make it so.. It's taught out of a book thats been simplified from "The Cell" but instead of reading the simplified book (which is about 1/4 the size of the real book) I read The Cell. And I learn EVERYTHING in the book..or at least I try to. We really dont touch on alot of the content in the cell...deffinately none of the interesting stuff....but its the interesting stuff that keeps me going during my hours and hours and hours of reading (about 200 pages a week... in a text book thats insane)

Lab is worse than ever. For a couple weeks after the break, the post doc that I was working with decided he was too busy for me, and I just sat in the Lab all day. I was required to come, but had nothing to do... Everytime I tried to talk to him he was "be-ri busy" but finally i was able to talk to him and asked if I could still help him. So...I've started doing actual work again...but I kinda regret it.... I'm in the lab for 9-10 hours a day, and I have no time to study for my Japanese classes... I'm doing pretty awful in almost all of them, and I rarely know whats going on during class. At first it was embarassing, but now that everyone in my classes just assumes im a retard and dont ever expect me to get the right answer, its ok. I might be exaggerating things (about the being a retard thing that is...NOT exaggerating about lab..) I know whats going on in...most of my classes...but there are those days...where i litterally have no clue...

But back to lab...its awful. Still no one talks to me...but I've given up. I dont have time to eat or sleep really...its just...gah bad. My tutor (who also works in my lab) doesnt talk to me... infact she doesnt even look at me when i pass her in the hall....

I do have one friend in the lab though.... a girl from Tsunesia (sp?) whos about to start her PhD. Shes treated as bad as me, if not worse. (the post doc doesnt like her). She keeps me going through the rough lab days T_T.

Apparently I have 2 presentations that I'm supposed to give...one tomorrow in front of 10 people or so, and one of the 15th of Feb in front of the entire lab (around 50 ppl). I have no idea what this is supposed to be on....it was the post docs decision to make me do the presentation... I asked him what I was supposed to do it on,

he said "your results"

me:"what results?

"my results"

"im supposed to give a presentation on YOUR results?"

"yes"

it was left at that.

Im kinda dreading tomorrow...

I always thought that I was a hard working person... but it seems that here in Japan im one of the laziest.... The mere fact that i try to sleep at least 6 hours a night is proof.... Apparently here they only sleep 3-5 night. And becuase I only do 10 hour days (as opposed to 16 hours like everyone else) im seen as a slacker.

I love learning all the things that I have...and I'm so greatful for the opportunity that I have had here...it was more (much more..in many ways...) that I could have ever imagined...But I cant keep it up. Im not a PhD student...and I'm not a 4th Japanese university student workng on my graduation thesis...yet i am treated, and expected to function like one... I dont think that I can keep this up...And I've decided to quit starting next quarter. I hate that I've had to choose this...but life is really miserable... I cant do class and homework and have any sort of a life on TOP of a 10 hour work day... physically and mentally...i cant do it...

In other news...I'm planning on going to korea in feb! I'm SO excited! I'm only going for 4 days or so, but the plane ticket AND hotel together is only 250 dollars-ish. I'm going with my Japanese friend Sachiko, her bf, my two amerikan friends Patrick and Alex, and Sachiko's friend nakayamanakaguchidgglgsja;gd something or other.

It snowed the other day here... not too much....maybe only 2cm or so..but I was scared. I didnt get outside before it melted though.. too bad...

I've started cooking more... I make dinner for my two (only two..) friends, Alex and Patrick. And I'm also going to start making them lunch 3 times a week. Haha, I'm like a mom... the reason is, we're all poor and cant afford to eat out...and i thought it would be fun >.> :D

well, this update was alot longer than I thought it would be...but now im going to take a nap here on my lab bench...im...so...tired...

As always, thats for all your love and support. I would really love to hear back from you guys. I know I dont always answer your email replies, but I LOVE getting them. anything, even if its just "cool" =p

and just for fun...here's a myspace-esque picture of me :]

me fail english? thats UNPOSSIBLE!

Hey Guys...

I know its been forever. And ever single time I send out emails, I feed you lies such as "i`ll be emailing more often!" and "I`ll have more pictures!!!" and the such. Haha... I have honestly intended to be more diligent in my updates but ive been SO busy.
Before i continue with this blog, i have somewhat of a disclaimer....
At the moment in am in my Lab. Using my labs comuputer. My lab is at tsukuba university. Tsukuba is in japan. therefore my computer is japanese. not ONLY japanese, but ALSO a mac. a JAPANESE mac. I have no idea how to use a mac, and i have no idea how to use this keyboard. I dont know how to use the little contraction commas... (what are those called? T_T) and i also dont know how to use a number of other symbols that i have, since using this computer, discovered are somewhat detramental to english typing. I also cannot spell check. And im sure you all remember, or have figured out by now, that i am absolutly horrendous in my spelling. I apologize, Grandma and Grandpa...because throughout this entire blog, probably every other word will be misspelled, my english has become awful, i forget names of this, and anysense of grammer that you had succesfully distilled in me has long ago died... and im postitve that when i come home to visit you are going to be horrified by my english.

So that leads me into my next topic.... thats right IM COMING HOME!!! I will be back for a week from Nov 21st to the 30th. I am VERY excited. You really have no idea. Last night in my lab, i was talking with the only other english speaker, and she said
"you seem to be in a REALLY good mood today!"
"really? hm, i hadnt noticed..."
"it must be because youre goining home in a week!"
yes. thats probably true....

Oh... so about lab...
I was becoming impatient because I have no idea when i was supposed to start doing actually working... Well..i eventually started. And BOY! Im not sure if i had mentioned that when i first met my advisor that he thought i was a graduate research student....when everyone found out that i was an undergraduate with only a year of general biology they were a little dissapointed... but my advisor encouraged me to continue anyways.
When i finally did get started on doing actual work it was NOT a gradual transition... All of a sudden, everyday of the week, from 3pm to 9pm. Within the first week, i learned how to do
3 kinds of PCR
transformation
grow up a colony
and then extract the plasmid.
Sequence the plasmid
anyalyze the sequence using online libraries
put a promotor and terminator on a gene
and then put it into a vector.
the next part of our project involves using agrobacterium to insert our target gene into a growing tomato plant.
theres ALWAYS so much work to day, and im struggling to keep up with the basic concepts behing the experiments. Ive been doing TONS of reading. In my molecular biology book, and research articles that my boss gives me.

my day is SO tiring. I wake up at 7am. Class from 8 30 - 11.30 and then 1-3. then lab from 3.30 until whenever work is done, which is usally around 9 or 10. Then i have a couple hours of homework each night...
so thats my excuse for not emailing...

Last week i was sick. It was pretty not fun. But im better now. I was supprised that it only took me little over a week to be completly better. Usually a common cold for me means a struggle with broncitis.

I was having a really hard time a few weeks ago. Depression? Maybe...all i wanted to do in my free time was sleep...but then again since i was only getting 4-5 hours of sleep a night... i might have just been tired. But none the less, i was having a hard time. Lab was hard... i didnt understand anything. No one talked to me... no one would even LOOK at me when i walked into the room. The guy training me was always frustrated at me because we have TONS of miscommunications (his english isnt that great...at all...) yeah... it was sad. *I* was sad...
but things are ok now. Ive gotten used to being somewhat ignored in lab, and my lab mates have gotten somewhat used to me being there... so i guess its somewhat helped us to meet in the middle. We had a lab bowling night a few weeks ago... that was pretty fun. Helped lossen things up between me and a couple of my lab mates. we now smile at each other in the halls instead of ignoring eachother... hahah... but i DID have a 5 minute conversation with one of the kids yesterday...that was exciting... haha...

SO...again... im coming home next week! And i have presents for EVERYONE. (i think/hope littereally everyone >.>.....)
if you want to hang out email me at betterthreefourths@docomo.ne.jp before the 20th (your time)
or betterthreefourths@gmail.com after the 21st (your time)
thanks for reading guys, hope to see you all sooon!! <3



a giant chair in the middle of the park...i have no idea... oh japan..


my new friend erika and me :D Shes japanese but learned english in england and has an australian accent. and shes weird. haha <3


Halloween party!



At an Izakaiya. (Satoshi, Sachiko, jean)



some cool stairs.


weird me...

Introductions

So one of the things that I've grown to find so completely annoying about Japan is their love for self introductions. I feel like I'm standing in front of my second grade class "Hi my name is Liza, my favorite color is orange, and when I grow up, I want to be an astronaut!!!"

A typical Japanese self introduction includes:

1.) Hajimemashite! (you have to say this first. It kind of means "nice to meet you")

2.) name (and its through this part that I have come to realize that I don't know what my actual name is... is it Eliza, el-liza, ah-liza? I have no idea... I never really thought about it... different people say it differently...and some people even switch it up (why be boring right?). But apparently, the idea that they are all acceptable is UNacceptable in Japan. I Japanese, these are 3 completly different names... and I'm often asked to tell someone which one is the REAL correct one... I asked my mom which one was the REAL way to say it... and she's not sure which one she had in mind when she named me. She's one of the many who's pronounciation of my name depends on how their feeling towards me. Usually an E-liza means im in trouble. )

3.) ethnicity/where you come from (because Japan pretends to take an interest in where youre from, when really all foreingers are treated equally bad no matter where they come from)

4.) job/position or year in school (and what school) Cuz Japan is all about status.

5.) hobbies ( and in japan a "hobby" can be anything from an actual past time, to something that littereal JUST passes time when youre bored and can't think of anything else to do...I love knowing that the majority of the Japanese's hobbies are watching tv and shopping..)

6.) anything else you wanna throw in, but it's gotta be completely pointless liek the rest of what you just said

7.) Dozou Yoroushiku onegaishimasu! (you have to say this too... its kind of like well...theres not really a traslation for it, littereally it means "please take care of me")

Why do I hate introductions so much? It would be a very different story if this was only used when introducing yourself formally, or to a large crowd for the first time. But instead, self introductions are used any and EVERY time you meet a new person. They're so forced and superficial. A very different from the amerikan way of "getting to know someone" where you would just actually TALK to them...

So for my lab, I have to give a POWERPOINT introduction of myself. Its supposed to last a good 25 minutes... What the heck am I supposed to talk about for 25 minutes? "Hi I'm Liza, I'm from amerika, california more exactly, which I'm sure you can tell by my purple hair and the way I dress and talk. I'm not smart, which you can tell cuz im Blonde AND amerikan, and I have no idea how I got into your lab which is full of amazingly smart people. I have no idea what you talk about when you talk about your projects because I've only had a year of general biology, and I secretly take notes so I can look up what you just said on wikipedia so I can try to understand what you're saying next time... "

(<-- My lab)

I also hate talking about myself. I have this idea that if I were to suddenly tell someone about myself they would think I'm a patholocial liar... I have no idea why I think this. Can't everyone say " Hi I'm allergic to pretty much everything except peanuts, I have liek 3 auto-immune diseases, I have to take 3 pills a day just to live. I once had pnemonia for 10 months cuz I was taking 10 classes in high school, working 36 hours a week, leader of 2 clubs and stopped eating and sleeping for a while. I broke a rib from coughing too hard once. I've broken my arm 7 times. I tore my ACL. I always had at least 15 cats while I was growing up, my record was 21 though. I ran away from home when I was 3 and climbed over 2 brick walls and went 5 blocks down to my grandparents house. I've been hospitalized a number of times, and have 5 differnt specialized doctors for my various health problems. I've never been to mexico even though its 3 hours away from where I lived my entire life. I've only been in snow 3 times in my life despite growing up 30 mins away from the mountains. I play 5 instraments (or used to)." I think thats all pretty normal...I pretty much just used my above 1-6 outline and added pictures for my presentation. And I added "I like making cookies for my friends...so if you like cookies, you should be my friend" in Japanese. I'm not looking forward to this in anyway... but fortunately im schedualed to present during when I have class.... and class is more important isn't it?They also want me to play my guitar at a party we're having later tomorrow night. Sigh... I'm not very good at the guitar...and I would rather not look like a retard trying to play for 50 people. Oh Japan, why do you do this to me?

So this is why I'm up so late on a school night (2 am here, class at 8) Becuase I had to make a presentation about myself.. And now I'm not tired, so I might as well write...

So this weekend was pretty good. Jean and I spent the sunday and monday (which was also a holiday) at the school festival. We got to see some AWESOME bands play (unike the first day when everyone was really really horrible). We even got to mosh a little. Japanese kids are boring.... they were all sitting down... at a rock concert... Jean and I were in front dancing and having fun while they sat there. here are a few photos from the concerts... And a video of a cover of L'Arc~en~ciel's Drivers High. The sound is kinda bad cuz it was too loud for my camera to handle, but they were pretty good. The guy's voice also died during the song, but hey their a hard band to cover, and the main singer's voice is intense, so I don't blame the kid for not getting it perfect.

Actually, the video wouldn't load...soooo nvm...

We also went to an jazz house, and here are some pictures of that, and a small sample...

AND. THIS! "We Are Teh ﾊﾟｰﾃｨｰ!" The most hilarious thing in the world. A bunch of weird guys dressed up in costumes, rapping and singing. They saw Jean and me standing in the crowd and said something in english, they crowd had no idea what they said, but Jean and I started laughing histerically... Seeing this, they continued to pull out probably every english phrase they had every learned (which mostly included shouting "F THIS!!!!") Jean and I died. It was so funny. And no one else understood what was going on. Then the rainbow suit guy came up to us and asked (In japanese) if we spoke japanese. And we answered (in japanese) "no none at all, we dont understand anything that you're saying" This got a nice laugh.

My only biology class that I get to take here is a complete joke. I'm learning tons... just not in class. The text book was optional, but I bought it anyways, and started doing what I do for all my science classes, read the text book and take such good notes, and my note book is basically an abridged version of the book. This book is intenese. Chapters are 90 pages long with size 10 font with no pictures. Takes me about 10 hours to completely read and take notes on a chapter. I've been learning so many interesting things from the book though! For the expection of Dr Morton, Hyman, and Larsen's classes, every other science class I've taken in college has been SO boring... I KNOW the material isn't boring... But most of the teachers present everything so horribly and its not interesting in anyway. I was SO excited at the idea of learning new and interesting things again! But when I got to class we barely touched on anything in detail..and got no where near the interesting things...

The class is designed for kids who don't know english as a first language. The class is structured as if you were trying to teach general biology to a 12 year old. The teacher has no idea what he's talking about, and is obviously not prepared because he doesnt understand his own slides. I don't ever answer when he asks questions in class cuz I feel bad. It's not that the other kids are dumb, they just don't know english. And so since it's really a class for them, I try to let them answer questions. But hardly ever does anyone answer, (and usually the teacher's questions make absolutly no sense) and so he calls on me to answer, or to try to explain something he can't explain very well... or to explain his own slide to him... Its very sad...

Today though... oh man... so like you know, I spent the whole weekend at rock concerts... like I was gonna do homework... So I showed up to class actually ready to learn (becuase I hadn't done ANY of the reading, and had NO idea what we were talking about.) So I sat there and listened and took notes, and tried to avoid eye contact when he asked questions and prayed that someone knew the answer, and well eventually he called on me to give an example of genetic recombination, and unfortunately someone already said the easy one (cross over).

this is how it went down...

Dr Taylor: "Liza, whats another way you get genetic recombination?"

Me: "ye..eah... I...really didn't do any of the reading..."

Dr Taylor: "uhm... ok, but whats another example?"

Me: "...uhm... I really have no idea"

Dr Taylor : *blank stare as he waits for an answer*
Me: *insert any high tech bio words that dont really make sense*

Dr Taylor: *not really understanding what i said* "you mean transposons?"

Me: "Yeeeeahhhhhhh! thats what I mean..."

Man I looked like such an idiot. Haha it was awesome.

Here are some other random photos for you to enjoy

Jean on top of the dirt circle

Magically looking huh?

Leaves

Tsukuba

Well, let me first start out introducing where I live. This...THIS, is Tsukuba Daigaku Hirasuna Shukusha (Tsukuba University Hirasuna Student Dorms). We have no air conditioning, no heating, no hot water, no showers. I have mold growing out of cracks in my walls, my floors are torn up, and my window does not close all the way. It's alright though now that I've gotten used to it... I figure that after living here for a year, the rest of my life in amerika will be so much happier... And rent is only 12,000 yen a month (about 100 dollars). My room is one the right allll the way on the top floor. There is no elevator of course, and the routine hike up to the top has helped get me into better shape. I honestly had to take breaks on my way up at first...the stairs are steep..and its hot...

The doors are supposed to be locked at all times, and you need a special code to get in...but the door broke, and the alarm was constantly going off...so the system was turned off... The policy here at tsukuba seems to be if it breaks... oh well. So I doubt this will be fixed any time soon, if ever.

Every morning I have a 10-15 bike ride to class (depending on the day). That in itself is an adventure. Many big hills, and crowds of people to manage my way through. I arrive to class hot and sweaty everyday. Its awesome.

As you an see, my room is very cluttered. Its not a very large room...yet I have attempted to fit a fridge, dresser, bed, tv (w/stand) bookcase, desk and fold out bed/chair thing, in it. When I first walked in and put down my suitcases, I was terrified...it was so ugly..and small...and smelled... but now its like home, and it doesnt smell so much anymore...

My bed was HORRIBLE. It was like sleeping on the ground. Every morning I woke up with all my joints hurting, and no matter how much i slept (10-12 hours) I would still be exhaused the next morning. I've solved this problem by buying a futon and putting it on top of my mattress. I love sleeping now... :]

These are my friends (Jean, Patrick, Alex, Micheal, and Simon[not pictured]. We all know each other from ICU. Patrick goes to UCR, although we never talked to eachother before (even though we sat next to eachother in Japanese class...). We, as a group, don't get along very well...at all...patrick and jean can't stand eachother, but pretend they do. Alex and Micheal don't get along very well and make no attempt to hide it. Simon is always gone on weekends, so he hasn't had a chance to get invloved in the "UC drama" here at Tsukuba. I've managed to remain neutral, and I get along pretty well with everyone. We hang out at the Kyujuukyu no mise, QQ for short(99 store...basically a japanese version of 99 cent store). QQ is pretty great, we all do most of our grocery shopping there. And we make regular visits to buy ice cream and hang-out out front. Kinda lame, but hey, its Japan.

Supprisingly, theres not really a lack of things to do here in rice field land. I actually prefere it much better than Tokyo. Theres a resonably large mall only 10 mins away by bike. Theres TONS of small and cheap mom'n'pop shops with great food. Theres a rock climbing wal/spa/movie theater with a bowling alley upstairs about 40 mins away by bike (we, as a UC group, make this trip weekly on our bowling excursions). Theres tons of parks, including a small shrine. Very pretty and lots of bugs...

This weekend is a 3 day long festival. My school has been blocked off to traffic (traffic meaning bikes) and theres tons of stands selling food and other small trinkets. There are also a few make-shift concert halls and cafes in some of the buildings. We went to see a band today that was covering some Mr. Children songs (popular japanese band) but they were pretty freaking awful. Cute, but horrible. We left. We also got to see some bad hip hop dancing on a large fancy stage.

Japanese festivals are very flashy..but kind of boring (kind of like Japan itself...). Pretty much, once you've seen one festival (and by see, I mean you've walked around for about 30 mins) you've seen them all.

What's a festival without fireworks? The town over was having a HUGE fireworks show, so we biked the hour to the next time, and sat in a field to watch fireworks. Jean and I ended up walking around during the 2.5 hour show because it was akward sitting with the two other couples we went with (more like we were jelous cuz we didnt have boyfriends... haha). The fireworks were pretty fun. TONS of people though. And delicious food. I love festival food... takoyaki, okanomiyaki, kakigori, karage, crepes...ect... google them all if you dont know what they are, im too lazy to tell you :]

So that was kind of an introduction to my school/town. I know it wasn't really an update on how *I* am. But oh well for you. I'll try to make more frequent posts.... I know I say that alot... And i try alot... But I've been really busy (which I'll tell you all about in a later post! :])

but enjoy some photos finally!

Jean and me with some new Japanese friends. At an izakaiya. Notice my glass of coke. :]

Although Japanese Baskin Robbins doesn't have peanut butter and chocolate, they DO have these awesome seasonal sundays.... Here's the halloween sunday!

This is my lab bench where I work/sleep/study...

Patrick tripped out on coke...

Atheist Jean pretending to pray to what ever god the shinto people pray to

Poor legs...so bruised...

So in Japan, they have different flavor kit kats! New ones for every month and season! Here are a few... some flavors are really good, like green tea and chestnut, but others... kiwi and catalope for example...errhhmmm yeah....

This was randomly in the middle of the park...basically it says watch out for rapists... will do japan, will do

Drunk bowling?

Because I'm the sober one of the group, it's my responsibity to look after the drunk kids and make sure they dont fall off their bikes. Patrick here got away from me for a second..and well yes, he fell off this bike, hurt himself, and we had to hear him complain the whole way home.

And for everyone who asks that I have more pictures of myself...heres one, blurry but whatever

Only in a Japanese park are you not allowed to have fun

Yeah im weird i know.

Owari!

the end!