Tokyo Day 1

TOKYO WAS AMAZING!! Okay so clearly this will be written in past tense because i had no time to blog while i was there and i am unsure how much i will actually write because while it was actually probably one of the best things and one of the things that has really pushed me to grow more as a person than all three years of modules, however its personal moreso than professional so i'm not sure how relevant it will be to get marks but FUCK IT HERE GOES.

preparing for Tokyo was a big thing for me. I was incredibly anxious so in order to make this better for myself i decided to prepare. I made sure i looked up where we were staying, areas to go to if i needed a quiet spot or somewhere to go myself (this was thrown out of the window as soon as i witnessed the sheer scale of everything). I also made sure i wrote some japanese to prepare. I've picked up the basics from anime, while i wont be screaming names of overpowered attacks i can at least say the basics. I also made sure to learn food words and phrases that would be essential Such as "Peenatsu ni arer(u)gi des(u)" which is how i kept myself from eating peanuts (y). I also made sure i wrote down the Kanji for food, as food signs would be more common than spoken. I printed off a map with sights i wanted to see, i think i might have accidentally stumbled across some of them but was so busy from the already planned stuff and just exploring im not sure how much of it got seen.

I was incredibly anxious about the 3AM start and Guy screaming at horror games downstairs meant that no sleep was had (actually screw guy he was so hard to be around the whole trip and I'm not even sorry this is a public blog). But as soon as we were on the road all anxious feelings were forgotten about, the techniques i've already practiced worked for me too here, and along the way i got a chance to do a little bit of sketching. The sleep depravation didn't particularly improve my skills but any drawing is good drawing.

Its hard to explain what its like landing in such a different country in such a dazed state, but it felt so familiar yet so different that it was incredibly uncanny, but in a good way, the unfamiliarity energised me to continue exploring throughout the day.

Tokyo is huge. We explored as a whole course which was a complete mess, and the fact that some first years took photos with the flash on during a spiritual event in a temple and then played the bells that are preyed to was incredibly disrespectful, and this dislike people's uncompromising ignorance to another culture continued through a meal, in which Wing was solely relied on to order food and organise everything. I felt so bad for here, and would later learn of the pain myself.

Had some personal trouble in the afternoon after a nap where a sudden rush of all the emotions i should have been feeling while traveling crept up on me, but the exploration of a foreign land was too important to let this get in the way and i forced myself out anyway. Tokyo explodes after 8pm. Everyone comes back from work and hits the restaurants, shops and arcades and my goodness was Tokyo lively. I made sure to take plenty of pictures. Food was sick, spoke to some locals, went back to the hotel and slept like a log.

P.S. Fuck swiss airlines. Flew in a plane that looked older than one i took 9 years ago. You cant expect passangers to watch VHS quality films that keep shutting down for 10 hours or however long the flights were.

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