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I, ah, just napped for 4 hours. ^^' Guess the travel + not eating + hit-and-miss-sleep + period + shopping all day caught up with me. :D

So, today me and the nice girl I was in the dorm room with both decided to go to Yoyogi Park, so we went together. We went to Meiji Shrine, which was beautiful, especially the iris garden, which managed to be peaceful even when packed with people. There was another wedding too, though no shou this time. Then we went round the edges of Yoyogi Park, where all the bands, junk sellers and colourful weirdoes hang out. It was very cool. And after that, we headed to the main street in Harajuku that I forget the name of, where there are hundreds of shops selling clothes and trinkets (but none selling food, on the day I really want to eat! @_@). It was a lot of fun. ♥

We even found the JE shop, but it was already after 6 and there were lots of people in, so the guy tried to explain to us in French (Maike speaks French, cos she's German and awesome) that we needed a timed ticket, but man, I could've got it from his English or even his Japanese, if he'd talked slowly enough. Maike asked in French, and I tried to ask in Japanese, if I came back tomorrow, where could I get a ticket, but he answered Maike in French but I don't think it was clear, and he tried to answer me in English, but basically the answer was "in the park" and that was less than helpful. ^^' Sometimes when I try to speak Japanese to people they speak English back (though they don't speak that much), even when I continue to speak Japanese, so I wonder if I'm a) so crap that they pity me and are trying to say they'd understand me better if I just stuck to my own language, or b) they're trying to be kind or c) they just feel like giving it a go. It's happened to me on several occasions, and it's fine with me, cos I can say more words than I understand, but still. I don't want people to be encouraging me to give up cos I'm so rubbish. XD (Though I do often just say words, even if I *know* I know the grammar. -_- Work faster, brain!) There were two very nice ladies we kept running into in the park, though, and we had a kind of broken conversation with them too, which was sweet.

Anyway, the upshot is I'm going to try and go back to the JE shop during the day when all the schoolgirls will be, well, at school, and hope for the best.

Seems Sunday is a good TV night. :D I have a single room now, so I put the TV on and Tetsuwan Dash was on! :D Leader and Yamaguchi were saving baby birds from snakes, and Taichi and Mabo were removal men, but I fell asleep before it was over. :( Then I woke up and Tegoshi was on. :D Then I went back to sleep, and woke up and Downtown were on something. Then I came out to the cafe and Doumoto Kyoudai was on! :D :D :D Then I just saw an ad with Nagase in, and then! An ad for Zukkoke Daisassou!! I was so happy. :D In Harajuku we saw a truck advertising KAT-TUN's new single too, and when we were eating ramen (couldn't eat a whole one, even though it wasn't that big ^^;;) Zukkoke Otokomichi came on and I was all squeeful again. :D (Love So Sweet also came on later.)

Things left to do: Kamakura (need early start! ^^;;), Akihabara, return to Harajuku. XD 2 days left in Tokyo!