A month in Japan – Day 2

Yup, I’ve been lazing around almost all day. Now I’m more rested though. Talked a bit more with the lovely people in the house, made a hort trek to a nearby “New drug store!” to pick up some shower gel, dropped by 7-eleven to withdraw some money (they have ATMs that take international cards there) and buy some food for the day, ate curry-flavored cup noodles, saw Van Helsing, went to a nearby supermarket (mostly to look up prospective future lunches and dinners) and then, kinda saw the second half of Van Helsing again (the guy who was originally watching it had to leave the first time, but I stayed to watch the rest since I was eating anyway, this time he was finishing it up), ate some kind of chicken (with the same kind of topping as yakitori, tasted great) and pasta, and then just lazed around more, talking with people etc.

Tomorrow I’m getting myself a suica (marvelous little things, those) and checking out Akiba.

Tidbits from the day:
* The Bentou (boxed lunch) sold at supermarkets are made and packaged in the store, every other minute an employee says “Excuse me!” and runs over to the section with Bentou to place a freshly made one there. It’s cool. They all look tasty, so I’m gonna have to try around a little.

* They also have large amounts of fish-food. To contrast this however, the tiny amount of beef they have is pretty cheaply priced.

*7-Eleven carries writable Blu-ray discs. Oh yeahhhh.

*There are at least two Otaku in the house, one of them is Japanese. And female. The internet was just proven wrong, again.

*I’m getting some Japanese-talking in too. Good, fun and rewarding. It’s everything the Swedish school system wishes it was! ;D
(It seems everyone expects me to only know very basic phrases and are surprised when I actually compose some more advanced sentences. Kinda funny, in a way.)