JAPAN (sushi at 6 am)
i have been doing great, just traveling all over japan…and eating…and eating …and eating. haha. but i love the food here! this past weekend, miriam, (who i went snowboarding with) came down to tokyo with her friend and we went out to a club called shibuya nuts. it is a hip hop club that was recommended by carver, (in shibuya) and we got to catch a japanese hip hop show which had a bumping beat and energetic vibe.
we danced till about 6 am, but the highlight was definitely eating sushi afterwards at a restaurant around the corner…and then catching a train to the famous fish market (tsukiji) to eat more sushi. i never thought i would eat sushi that early in the morning! then we slept for a few hours at a comic/internet cafe and woke up at noon to people watch in harajuku. i really wonder where the people get their inspiration for!
hillltop motel (oh so shady)
korea was awesome. i love the food, and could eat kim chee and korean style bbq all day…another great thing about the country is that the transportation system is really efficient, and much cheaper than japan´s. the subway and buses are mostly 1000won, and the taxis are really cheap as well. korea is the first country i have been to where i am not familiar with the language, so it was really exciting to be able to get around!
one night we went to a bar called ‘queen’, which was in the middle of a strip of bars in itaewon. the night was fun, and the last thing enda and i did was drink more soju and cider on our stoop outside the convenience store. and then when we woke up, we had a new bottle of soju AND cider on the table…wow.
we went out and stayed at a place called the hilltop motel, which was the shadiest place i have ever seen…straight out of the horror movie where there are crackheads and prostitutes everywhere. we stayed since it was about 100 meters from the bars, and very convenient. but the morning got kinda scary since someone kept knocking on the door as enda was in the shower, so after a while i finally answered, and it was this huge 50-cent wannabe gangster in his full get up. ( complete with chains, sideways hat, baggy jeans…ok so i know it is really stereotypical) he was like, “i wanna talk to your friend”, and i told him no, that enda was in the shower, and that he prob. had the wrong room…but this guy was really persistent about it, and i thought for a second that this guy was gonna bust into the room, and i was gonna get my ass kicked. well, the guy realized after a couple of minutes that he did have the wrong room, so he kinda huffed away, and i heard him asking the reception guy where the corredct room was…