McBreakdown

Many things, not enough money. To start, after i begin work tomorrow you will be hearing less of me. i cant afford to spend 3 bucks a day everyday to write email, but i will get here as much as possible.

i traveled to the shinjuku section of tokyo today. the subway station is insane, and it was only a sunday. huge place. saw the hotel that bill murray stayed in in lost in translation, walked around a 14 story department store called... crap what was it called, takashiyama times square. carzy place as well.

i now have approximately 27 packets of tissue. the preferred means of promotiojn here in japan. i also have a smaller stomach. i broke down and had mcdonalds today. dont worry i will try many more kinds of food, but i need to ease into it. see, here in japan the restaurants have plastic displays outside to show their foods, well when i became really really hungry i walked up to one ready to order, unbtil i noticed that one of the meals looked like worms with sauce, and my appetite for japaneze was gone.

i start work tomoorow, and hopefully get my train pass. while the trains here are nice, they get expensive when you dont have your company paid travel pass yet. my trip to and from shinjuku today cost 780 yen all together, which in time adds up.

thats it for now. no earthquakes yet, and no japanese girlfriends... yet. HA!!! gotcha! but they do seem to really really like foreign men. (both of my roommates have japanese girlfriends.)

sayonara!

colonel
p.s.- phrase of the day- toirre wa doko desu ka? where is the bathroom?