A day of intensive meetings and a great enlargement of social activity!
The 20th of December I went around in the Shinagawa area from around 10 am to 1.30 pm to wait for my dear friend to come and meet me. I woke up a little bit too early because of my roommate’s return to her friends in London, so I spent some time watching television for children in the hotel room until checkout time at 10. Walking around with a huge and heavy backpack was not exactly the best way of “doing Shinagawa”, but I thought it would be strange to leave the bag after I have left the hotel. So, I went window shopping in the foodmarket, looked for a place with wireless internet connection (there are none…) and ended up eating berries and waiting in the hotel lobby for my friend to appear.
After some rest, she came. and I was SO happy to see her. Although there were changes in her plans for the day, so we did not go home, but met some Norwegian students who study Japanese and one japanese student who studies Norwegian. We ended up at Starbuck’s and I must tell you it is hard to find seatings for six people in Japan in the afternoon! But the nice coffeeladies helped us to make room for all of us. That would not have happened in Norway, I guess… It was good to sit down instead of carrying that heavy backback for some time…
But, we had more plans for the day. Dinner with some other Norwegian students who study Japanese. There are so many of them:) So we walked around to find a suitable place, found it, had dinner, and then, we took the train and monorail back to Higashiyamato and was picked up by my friends’ father. Ah! Finally home!
Seems like there are many Norwegian students in Japan!
Nice that you have met some of them.
Yes! It is good to meet some people with light hair here in the blackhaired and browneyed country… hihi…